The present moment is given to us
  to create marvels.

A perfect today
  influences an unknown tomorrow
  and repairs yesterday’s deficiencies.

If a person wants to repair the past,
  they must put perfection
  into the present moment.

Each day they must seek cheerfulness
  with the same energy as a bee,
  who flies enormous distances
  to collect the pollen
  that it transforms into delicious honey.

How many persons rush around all their lives,
  struggling, losing sleep,
  irritating their nervous system,
  wanting to reach the heights
  be it of riches, sexual pleasure,
  or the intoxication of power,
  without ever getting there,
  dying without ever having been happy.

To forget the present moment
  in order to deplore the past
  is a waste of time;
  it is risking to destroy oneself
  by piling up regrets and
  useless or harmful sentiments of guilt.

To forget the present moment
  in order to be concerned
  only with the future
  is and illusion;
  it is a dream;
  it is utopia.

To by happy
  we must be attentive to all
  whom our lives touch in a day.
  We must make an effort
  to detect the positive in them
  whether it be an attitude, a judgement
  or an agreeable quality.

Each time that we speak
  of someone we know,
  we must have enough
  lucidity, intelligence,
  and imagination to be able
  to say something agreeable
  about them.

Other are put on my route
  like flowers on the route of the bee:
  we approach them only to discover
  the best that is in them.

Excerpt on the book “The Present Moment”, pages 19-20, Father Louis-Marie Parent, O.M.I.