“It's all a matter of paying attention, being awake in the present moment, and not expecting a huge payoff. The magic in this world seems to work in whispers and small kindnesses.”
“...poetry is paying attention to life when all the world seems asleep to its beauties and truths...”
“Pay attention! At all moments of the day you are either leading or being led.”
“Small kindnesses often, unintentionally, produce the biggest payoffs.”
“We can't enchant the world, which makes its own magic; but we can enchant ourselves by paying deep attention”
“Both liturgy and what is euphemistically termed 'domestic work' also have an intense relation with the present moment, a kind of faith in the present that fosters hope and makes life seem possible in the day-to-day. ”