8. Don'T Miss The Miracles Of Your Life

People ask me to perform miracles. I tell them that life itself is a miracle.

Consider a piece of bread transforming itself into a drop of blood inside your body. The bread that you eat becomes blood, is it not? Now, that is a true miracle! Thousands of such miracles happen in our body simultaneously. Life is the biggest miracle.

If this miracle is so obvious, why do we miss it? We miss all the wonderful, beautiful, and miraculous things that happen to us and our body, because we don't live in the moment.

The Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh wrote a beautiful book 'Miracle of Mindfulness'. He shows how to appreciate life by living in a mindful state every moment. Only when you understand and appreciate that life is a miracle, it is worth living. As long as we do not understand life is a miracle, there is nothing much worth living for. This is one miracle that needs to be understood.

Being in the state of 'now', living in the present, brings us enormous power. You will understand and live in the power of now, when you understand that life is 'here' and 'now'.

When we understand the best way to lead life is to live in the now, it brings in tremendous healing effect and freedom. Not only do all the physical and psychological pains disappear, but we will also see a tremendous sense of freedom blossoming within us.

If we live in the 'now' and 'here,' we will neither bother about the next moment nor worry about the past. Because every moment is going be fresh to us, and we will always be in the 'now' and 'here' with no burden of the past or future.

Let us not make the practice of being in the 'now' and 'here' complicated. If we can manage 'now' and be 'here,' we can verily manage the next moment, which comes afresh as another 'now,' and 'here'.

Every moment takes birth only from this moment. Every moment takes birth afresh. It is born at that moment and dies at that instant. If we can live in this moment, we can also live the next moment. We will then live happily with no regrets, no guilt, no expectations and no surprises.

But how do we live today? We kill the moment we live in. In the same way, we kill the next moment and the next. As long as we do not live now here, we do not live in the present moment. We kill the moment. We kill life itself. We don't live it.

Let us live our miracles every second of it. Then you will see that every moment of your life, you become more and more sensitive to the real miracles of Life, to the way in which the universe or Existence is conducting the whole show. And when you tune in to this, everything becomes a miracle. It is then that you actually start enjoying life. It is then that you drop hankering for other material miracles and start seeing the real miracles unfolding every minute of existence. It is then that you start experiencing what the great masters have been talking about time and again.