The Present Moment Quotes

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.

If you could travel back in time to the present moment, what would you do differently?

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.

While you are meditating, if your mind wanders, gently bring it back to the present moment.

The power of the present moment is so immense it is capable - when lived in fully - of destroying forever every past mistake and regret.

By watching the mechanics of the mind, you step out of its resistance patterns, and you can then allow the present moment to be.

You really don't even own the present moment, for even this belongs to God.

Nowness or the magic of the present moment is what joins the wisdom of the past with the present

Ask yourself: Is there joy, ease and lightness in what i'm doing? If there isn't then time is covering up the present moment, and life is perceived as a burden or a struggle.

Accept the present moment without judgement.

It's not life in the present moment that is intolerable; the pain we are avoiding has already happened. We are living in reverse.

Experience only can teach men not to prefer what strikes them for the present moment, to what will have much greater weight with the them hereafter.

Literature gives us the great gift of the present moment.

Life is only available in the present moment.

Because if the manifestations that happen in the present moment are beautiful and good, their continuation in the future will be also good and beautiful.

If we do not find happiness in the present moment, in what shall we find it?

The prospect of future lives in remote heavens as a compensation for the inadequacy of our present lives is a bad tradeoff for losing out on the present.

The best gift we can have is living in the present moment and really enjoying it for what it is; and, not being in our heads and getting sidetracked.

I live in the #‎ present moment.

With a practice, we can always remain alive in the present moment. With mindfulness, you can establish yourself in the present in order to touch the wonders of life that are available in that moment.

Never has the theatrical profession been more overcrowded than at the present moment.

If I had never touched Holmes, who has tended to obscure my higher work, my position in literature would at the present moment be a more commanding one.

The animal lacks both anxiety and hope because its consciousness is restricted to what is clearly evident and thus to the present moment: the animal is the present incarnate.

Real morality is based on a single criterion: right action, appropriate action, in the present moment and present situation.

Our feminist culture at the present moment is completely dependent on capitalism. My grandmother was sill scrubbing clothes on the back porch on a washboard!

The truth is in the present moment.

I don't want to lean back into the past, or forward into the future. I don't want to wish the present moment away.

Accept that living in the present moment, with your present desires, is the best, the highest thing you can do.

The most intriguing thing about the present moment is that it never grows old.

The present moment is the only time that is eternal and the only time in which we can experience happiness.

We can shift from time-bound awareness into timeless awareness . . . to the ecstasy that can only be found in the present moment.

When you are not making the present moment into a means to an end, you also are not making every human being you meet - in your business and even at home, in your family - into a means to an end.

For the ego to survive, it must make time - past and future - more important than the present moment.

The fullness of life is only accessible in the present moment.

Awareness is the power that is concealed within the present moment. This is why we may also call it Presence.

Become intensely conscious of the present moment.

And since the now is all there ever is in your life, your entire life unfolds as the present moment. People don't realize it, but all they ever have is "this". This moment.

Work to recognize the primary importance of the present moment. A good little pointer toward that is to ask yourself, "What is my relationship with the present moment? How am I relating to it?"

The trick is not to look back, but keep on expressing where I'm at now. It's challenging to create something new, so it's crucial to dwell in the present moment.

None of us sees history fully; none of us is adequately aware of how the arrangements of the present moment foreclose the possibilities of others to fully live their only lives.

The most important decision you'll ever make is how to spend the present moment !

To be happy, you must live in, but not for, the present moment.

The past is as powerless to darken the present moment as is a shadow to reach up and drag down the form that casts it.

At the present moment in world history nearly every nation must choose between alternative ways of life. The choice is too often not a free one.

There were times when I could not afford to sacrifice the bloom of the present moment to any work, whether of the head or hand. I love a broad margin to my life.

The message is that ultimate meaning is to be found in this present moment, infusing our everyday lives, here and now.

Painting has this ability to send the viewer [backward], but it's also this physical object in the room with you. It's always knocking you back into the present moment, which I find very pleasurable.

The present moment is a powerful goddess.

I would tell people to enjoy the present moment and the journey rather than the outcome.

You spend very little time in the present moment. Reality exists only in the present moment. Therefore you spend very little time in reality.