Will You Still Care?

Regret = longing to change the past.
Fear = desire to control the future.
Peace = surrender to Now.
~ Jeff Foster

"On your deathbed, will you still care about all the arguements you won, about all the times you proved to others how 'right' or how 'enlightened' you were, about all the knowledge you amassed on your journey to this moment? Will you still be thinking about how much money you made or didn't make, or how far you advanced up the material or spiritual or social ladder?

Or perhaps only this moment will matter, only the grace of each and every breath, only the precious fragility of life itself and the gratitude for having been at all.

Like the dream of a childhood Christmas long ago, perhaps you will not remember the size or shape or the monetary value of the gifts that life offered, or what the gifts were wrapped in, or who got a bigger or better gift than you. Perhaps you will only remember the love and the longing and the hope with which the gifts were given, and received.

It was only ever about the connection."

~ Jeff Foster, Falling In Love With Where you Are