We often seek complicated and laborious solutions to our ills, our anxieties, our discomfort. Meditation is certainly not a panacea, but here the author Thich Nhat Hanh teaches us simply essential thing: the importance of living the present moment. He talks about his observations and experience with warmth and kindness. It also gives us some key practices to help us find the path of mindfulness, one that leads to life and to ourselves.