The Precious Present

If I lose myself

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The Precious Present by 1981, Doubleday, Spencer Johnson Broadway New York, USA

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When you have the precious present, you are perfectly content to be where you are.

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The precious present.

The precious present has nothing to do with wishing.

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You already know what the precious present is. You already know where to find The richness is rare, The precious present is not it. And you already know indeed, but … the wealth something that someone how it can make you of the precious present gives you. It is a gift that happy. You know it best comes only from itself. you give yourself. when you were a small child. You have simply forgotten.

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The precious has nothing to do with wishing … When you have the precious present you will be perfectly content to be where you are … The richness of the precious present comes from its own source … The precious present is not something that someone gives to you …. It is something you give to yourself …. 12

It is wise for me to think It is also wise to think about the past and to learn about the future and to And when I lose my self, I from my past. But it is not prepare for my future. But lose what is most precious wise for me to be in the it is not wise for me to be to me. past. For that is how I lose in the future. For that, too, my self. is how I lose my self.

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I know that some people The present is what is. It is choose to receive the precious. Even if I do not precious present when they know why. It is already just I can choose to be happy are young. Others in middle Pain is the difference the way it is supposed to b. now. Or I can try to be age. And some when they between what is and what I when I see the present, happy when … or if … are very old. Some people, want it to be. accept the present, and sadly, never do. I can experience the present. I choose the precious present am well, and I am happy. whenever I want.

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When I feel guilty over my imperfect past, or I am My past was the present. anxious over my uncertain And my future will be the future, I do not live in the present. The present present. Then, I experience moment is the only reality I pain. I make myself ill. ever experience. And I am unhappy.

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As long as I continue to stay in the present, I am happy forever: because forever is always the present.

The present is simply who I am just the way I am … right now. And it is precious.

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The precious present is something precious I can I am the precious present. give to and receive from myself. For I am precious.

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The precious present.

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