Present Moment Quotes
Don't live in the past, don't ponder about the future, stay at the PRESENT moment NOW...always.
We can learn not to keep situations or events alive in our minds, but to return our attention continuously to the pristine, timeless present moment rather than be caught up in mental movie making.
Projecting into the future with hopes, dreams and desires can never fulfill you. Only the present moment can fulfill you.
Today it is not nearly enough to be a saint, but we must have the saintliness demanded by the present moment, a new saintliness, itself also without precedent.
Sugar is gone; silk has gone; iron is threatened; wool is threatened; cotton will go! How long are you going to stand it? At the present moment these industries...are like sheep in a field.
Awareness is the power that is concealed within the present moment. … The ultimate purpose of human existence, which is to say, your purpose, is to bring that power into this world.
The present moment is the substance with which the future is made. Therefore, the best way to take care of the future is to take care of the present moment. What else can you do?
The present moment is all you ever have. There is never a time when your life is not 'this moment.' Is this not a fact?
There is one respect in which beasts show real wisdom... their quiet, placid enjoyment of the present moment.
We would willingly, and without remorse, sacrifice not only the present moment, but all the interval (no matter how long) that separates us from any favorite object.
Meditation helps us to get out of our thoughts about the future and really be in the present moment.
Challenges are something that can only be tackled in the present moment and require action.
To practice Zen means to realize one's existence in the beauty and clarity of this present moment, rather than letting life unravel in useless daydreaming of the past and future.
We try to live every moment like that, dwelling peacefully in the present moment, and respond to events with compassion.
Mindfulness is a way of paying attention, on purpose and non-judgmentally, to what goes on in the present moment in your body, mind and the world around you.
The only time that any of us have to grow or change or feel or learn anything is in the present moment. But we're continually missing our present moments, almost willfully, by not paying attention.
The most effective way to transform into higher consciousness is to pay attention in the present moment.
One who lives in accordance with nature does not go against the way of things but moves in harmony with the present moment.
The present moment is a conspiracy of the total universe. To resist it is to resist the universe. Let go and flow.
Don't wait to be successful at some future point, have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.
It is this research into pure painting that is the problem at the present moment. I do not know any painters in Paris who are really searching for this ideal world.
The present moment contains past and future. The secret of transformation, is in the way we handle this very moment.
The present moment is ever the critical time. The future is merely for intelligent forethought.
If you can see it, hear it, feel it, taste it, touch it, or smell it, you can be present with it. It is of the present moment, and so it brings to you the opportunity to be present with it.
Waking up is not serious. It is a gentle remembering and an honoring of the present moment as the truth of life.
Remember that a man, a true man, never hates. His rages and his bad moods never last beyond the present moment-like electric shocks.
The best way to say, "I love you, God," is to live your life doing your best. The best way to say, "Thank you, God," is by letting go of the past and living in the present moment, right here and now.
Acceptance is the magic that makes change possible. It is not forever, it is for the present moment
This is the sleep: being absent, being not present to the present moment, being somewhere else.
Have you noticed," she asked him, "how we live much of our lives in the past and most of the rest of it in the future? Have you noticed how often the present moment slips by quiet unnoticed?
If you allow yourself to fully feel the life you're in - not conceptually, but viscerally in the present moment - then that is inherently meaningful.
The power of the present moment is so immense it is capable - when lived in fully - of destroying forever every past mistake and regret.
For it is only by forgetting that we ever really drop the thread of time and approach the experience of living in the present moment, so elusive in ordinary hours.
The problem with fantasy is the greatest benefit of fantasy: it prevents us from living in the present moment.
While you are meditating, if your mind wanders, gently bring it back to the present moment.
We call the effort to cultivate our ability to be in the present moment ‘practice’ or ‘meditation practice.’
You have absorb'd me. I have a sensation at the present moment as though I was dissolving.