Stewart Hsu

I heard Oprah read this poem by Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn, and wow, I had to share it with all of you.

Not just for real estate investing, but for anything (and everything?) you do, the more you are at peace, the more you are aware, the more mindful you are in all the big and small things you do… the better quality decisions you will make, the better quality actions you will take, the better you will feel in your life.

Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D., is the founding director of the Stress Reduction Clinic and the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, as well as Professor of Medicine emeritus.

A Taste of Mindfulness
”
Have you ever had the experience of stopping so completely,
of being in your body so completely,
of being in your life so completely,
that what you knew and what you didn’t know,
that what had been and what was yet to come,
and the way things are right now,
no longer held even the slightest hint of anxiety or discord,
a moment of complete presence beyond striving,
beyond mere acceptance,
beyond the desire to escape or fix anything or plunge ahead,
a moment of pure being,
no longer in time,
a moment of pure seeing,
pure feeling,
a moment in which life simply is,
and that is-ness grabs you by all your senses,
all your memories,
by your very genes,
by your loves,
and welcomes you home,
that is a taste of mindfulness.
”

Love it. Live it. Be it.