"Each moment is a revelation, a unique gift from God.  We enter it with wonder and gratefulness and with a receptive heart.  This is contemplative living; it is living in God's presence and cultivating the moment. ... Every moment is a gift from God, and we are aware of that fact.  Every moment can be an occasion of contemplation, that is, an opportunity to realize God's love.  The contemplative walks in the presence of God in a moment-to-moment experience of God's love."

-- Fr. Ernest Larkin, O.Carm.
http://carmelnet.org/larkin/larkin017.pdf