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poetry. Focus on what is good. This keeps you connected to your heart.
     ECKHART TOLLE
    To listen to the heart means to be connected with that deepest level within yourself.
    The heart is naturally calm and peaceful, clear and strong, the qualities of the deepest level of your consciousness. The closer your connection with your essence, the more loving you will become and the more enjoyment you will derive from everything you encounter on your path.
     GARY ZUKAV
    The more you do this, the more the loving parts of your personality and their experiences begin to fill your field of awareness, which means the more loving you become. So that’s the way you begin to express your heart.
    As Father Matthew Fox says, “If you get cut off from your passion, then where’s your compassion going to come from?” Even when you find yourself in difficult or sad circumstances, you can rely on your heart for guidance. As you become better at listening to your heart, it will connect you with other people and communicate options and solutions to you. Allow your heart to open your eyes to something your mind may not have considered. The decision that comes from your heart will always be the right one for you.
    Now is all there ever is.
    —ECKHART TOLLE

CONTEMPLATION
    Present Awareness
    Your appointment in life is now, in the present moment. Take a minute to breathe in and out. You can breathe mindfully anywhere—sitting in your car, on the subway or bus, while waiting in a line or walking around the block. Practice the Inner-ease Exercise, or Love Response: Close your eyes. Put your hand on your heart. Imagine you are breathing in and out through your heart. Exhale more deeply than you inhale and breathe in and out six times or until your breathing feels calm and natural. Now, on each in-breath, feel yourself breathing in ease, love, and compassion through your heart. Exhale normally.
    Continue to breathe mindfully. Your breathing makes you aware of yourself in the now, wherever you are. With your mind calm from breathing in and out, you can encounter the beautiful things around you right now. View your life as a series of present moments. The past is gone, the future is not here yet. By being in the present, you are in touch with your heart. Listen to what it wants you to hear.

PART 2
The Inner Powers
    The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.
    —ECKHART TOLLE



6. The Power of Gratitude
    It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.
    —ECKHART TOLLE
    Gratitude, the ability to count your blessings, is the ultimate way to connect with the heart.
     NEALE DONALD WALSCH
    I think the heart is gratitude. I think the heart is a feeling. It is the sanctuary for the deepest feelings that can be found within the human experience. And I think among those feelings is the feeling of gratitude. The feeling of being thankful, of being grateful, and of being so in love with life and with everything in life and even, dare I say it, in love with ourselves.
    When you are grateful for everything you have, your heart is open. You appreciate the people in your life and they reciprocate. And gratitude creates even more abundance.
     MARCI SHIMOFF
    People often ask me, “What’s the fast track to love?” And there is one answer, I think: “Gratitude.” When we’re grateful for what’s going on in our lives, that is when our heart’s open. It’s a way that we actually register and savor the good that’s going on in our lives.
    There is an old saying: “What you appreciate, appreciates.” When you appreciate something, then more of that flows into your life.
    You can experience gratitude on two different levels: The first level of gratitude covers everyday things or interactions. These may range from gratitude for the roof over your head and food for your children to a smile you got from a random passerby on the