[gHA5]

"The Peace of Wild Things" by Wendell Berry

  When despair for the world grows in me
  and I wake in the night at the least sound
  in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,
  I go and lie down where the wood drake
  rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
  I come into the peace of wild things
  who do not tax their lives with forethought
  of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
  And I feel above me the day-blind stars
  waiting with their light. For a time
  I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

[daoist_shaman]

What a beautiful way to describe being present.

There's a quote widely attributed to Laozi, author of the Tao Te Ching

  If you are depressed you are living in the past. 
  If you are anxious you are living in the future. 
  If you are at peace you are living in the present.

[calibas]

Widely attributed to Laozi but actually from "Jimmy R":

https://books.google.com/books?id=7QNk4eNvS44C&pg=PA175&lpg=...

[daoist_shaman]

Not as exciting as Laozi but I'll take it. Jimmy R deserves credit where credit is due.

[prox]

Stunning poem, thank you for sharing.