I live every moment with consciousness and gratitude.

Attention wanders by design. You will drift within about eleven seconds of deciding not to, and then again, and this is true of everyone who has ever tried it, including the people who write books about it.

The practice was never staying. It is the return. Noticing you left, coming back, no ceremony. Some days that happens twice. Some days forty times, which is forty successes, not thirty-nine failures.

Right now there is a sound in the room you were not listening to. That is all it is. You just did it.