I find that when my bags and jackets have a lot of pockets, I add more and more crap to them and weigh myself down with things I will likely rarely or never will need. This is true in life as well. The more things we have an interest in and the more things we try to occupy our minds with, the more we get bogged down, spread thin, and hopelessly lost in our thoughts. Its too easy to lose track of mindfulness, when you have 20 diversions for your mind. We think that all those pockets will make us better organized, but in fact they just make a bigger mess and more stuff that is disorganized. We have to learn to reduce the pockets in our life and focus on that which is most important – being aware of our racing monkey minds and being aware of our thoughts as they arise. When we reduce our pockets, we reduce our thinking and this in turn allows us to live enlightened existence.

There is no fulfillment later in life. Ever.
There is no later in life. Ever.
There is only now.

What you are waiting for is here.