Often in life those seemingly ordinary moments hold the most extraordinary meaning.

Minor things can become moments of great revelation when encountered for the first time.

There is a saying in Tibet: “If you take care of the minutes, the years will take care of themselves.” What’s the most important minute in life? I think it’s the next one. There is nothing we can do about the past, and we have limited influence over the hours and days to come. But the next minute — minute after minute after minute — is always full of possibility.

Life changes in the instant. The ordinary instant.

What happens in ordinary moments determines your future.

The span of three or four minutes is pretty insignificant in the scheme of things. People lose hundreds of minutes everyday, squandering them on trivial things. But sometimes in those fragments of time, something can happen you'll remember the rest of your life.

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.

I am not asking for sensational revelations, but I would like to sense the meaning of that minute, to feel it's urgency...

What happens in ordinary moments determines your future. We’re taught to focus on the big decisions, rather than the moments where we don’t even realize we’re making a choice. Yet these ordinary moments often matter more to our success than the big decisions. This can be difficult to appreciate.

To him, even the momentary was momentous.

I now find the most marvelous things in the everyday, the ordinary, the common, the simple and tangible.

Every ordinary moment is an opportunity to make the future easier or harder. It all depends on whether you’re thinking clearly.

How many times have you noticed that it’s the little quiet moments in the midst of life that seem to give the rest extra-special meaning?

Each moment of each day in our lives is a valuable turning point — an important part of our spiritual growth, an important scene in the movie of our lives. Each feeling is important: boredom, fear, hate, love, despair, excitement. Each action we take has value: an act of love, an act of healing. Each word we speak, each word we hear, each scene we allow ourselves to see, and each scenario we participate in changes us. Trust and value each moment of your life. Let it be important. It is a turning point. It is a spiritual experience.