"Mindfulness is present-moment awareness. It takes place in the here and now. It is the observance of what is happening right now, in the present. It stays forever in the present, perpetually on the crest of the ongoing wave of passing time."
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Henepola Gunaratana, Mindfulness in Plain English (2011), p. 134
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