It is gone cold in Ireland – although not as cold as the rest of Europe – and travel companies have intensified their efforts to sell Summer holidays.

We are very good at preparing to live, but not very good at living. We know how to sacrifice ten years for a diploma, and are willing to work very hard to get a job, a car, a house and so on.

But we have difficulty remembering that we are alive in the present moment, the only moment there is for us to be alive

Thich Nhat Hanh