having become calm and concentrated, one perceives the self (ātman) within oneself

Drop the phone
Don't check it
Stay in bed a little longer
Think about what you are grateful for
Visualize it

What causes reflection to constantly deepen your life? It is truth, the original nature of existence, which is called dharma. Dharma creates reflection, and reflection creates suffering and pain. But that suffering give you many chances to investigate the root of your life and deepen your life in the dharma. That's why the Buddha said that suffering is truth.

The difference between misery and happiness depends on what we do with our attention. – Sharon Salzberg

“Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.”
― Seneca

silence & space as love languages

“And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five