Everyone lets the present moment slip by, and then looks for it as though he thought it were somewhere else. No one seems to have noticed this. But while grasping this firmly, one must pile...

Quick now, here, now, always, as if we are in a condition of complete simplicity…

The most inspirational feeling I can come up with is…….The feeling of presence.

Nothing is but what is now

Life is a dash. Pause in the present. Enjoy this moment.

There is one undeniable truth about our body: it only exists in the present moment.

There is only now. And look! How rich we are in it.

I’ve always let my imagination run free, but now I try to rein it in. Things never turn out the way I imagine, so I am letting them rest. Instead, I am holding just what...

so here i sit. a sum of the parts. about a third way down this wonderful path, so to speak. and i’ve been thinking lately about a friendship that fell apart with time, with distance,...

There is surely nothing other than the purpose of the present moment. A man’s whole life is a succession of moment after moment. If one fully understands the present moment, there will be nothing else...

And so, it is always the case that the past is irreparably land-locked, and the future has yet to land. And here we are, living out our lives on the precariously thin line which separates...

If you are expressing gratitude then you are in the present moment. If you are in the present moment then you are expressing gratitude.

Being present, whether with children, with friends, or even with oneself, is hard work. But isn’t this attentiveness — the feeling that someone is trying to think about us — something we want more than...

Learn to say no to demands, requests, invitations, and activities that leave you with no time for yourself. Until I learned to say no, and mean it, I was always overloaded by stress. You may...

We cannot let go of the past enough to live in the present unless we are able to grieve our losses. We must deeply feel our emotional pain in order to accept that what is...

Frequently avoidance of the present leads to idealization of the future… When an event does not live up to your expectations you can get out of the depression by idealizing again. Do not let this...

The past is set down in a thousand thousand indelible scrolls. But the future is a blank parchment forever in wait of a present.

You are people with a present and with a future. Don’t muff the ball. Be excellent.

Tomorrow will always hold curiosities but it is the enchantment of today’s possibilities which has me true to the present.

The undiscovered is not far away. It’s not something to be found eventually. It is contained within what is right in front of us. The essence of reality is being born right now. It has...

When people ask me how I am I tell them……”I’m present

The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it. (21)

Chronocanine Envy:Sadness experienced when one realized that, unlike one’s dog, one cannot live only in the present tense. As Kierkegaard said, “Life must be lived forward.

…as long as you are motivated by the approval of others, you cannot know with confidence whether the decisions you are making in your life are what’s right for you… pg 102

Worry does not keep it from raining tomorrow, but it does keep it from being sunny today.

If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.

What more does one need than what is offered by the present moment? Once you have learnt how to dissolve in the present moment, and you are able to enjoy it, you will have no...

It’s easy to get lost in our own heads. It’s easy to allow the thoughts and worries and plans and hopes to take on their own lives and control our minds in such a way...

I give myself permissionto enjoy the present moment.

When you read a book put all of your effort into staying present and focus your energy towards the comprehension of each and every word and how you can apply it into your daily life.

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?

There comes a moment in life when one must acknowledge that you just can’t keep looking back into your past for reasons to keep someone in your present and future. Regardless of how much looking...

Credit and debt keep us fixated on the past and the future.

your Life is cover by only one word ‘IS’, everything else is Just Unnecessary Happening By Your Mind.

The past informs the present. Memory makes the map we carry, no matter how hard we try to erase it.

This is the ordinariness of the Present, without anything special, mystic or mysterious, it simply exists!! One should live through one’s life from moment to moment, and allow things happen the way they want to...

What is Required by Paul Allen (fragment)1All elsewhere being World, how many times have I stoodin the bright shadows of a wood,no track or trail leading in, out-as though ground coverrenewed as I went through?I...

The past and the future are tools of the ego that render us finite. Without our judgments about the past (memories) and without our judgments about the future (expectations), there is only the Here and...

What is important is to understand the true boundaries of reality, not the probable boundaries of possible future events. Although boundary conditions operate on the future, they are probabilistic constraints, not absolutely determined fact. We...

If, from time to time, you give up expectation, you will be able to perceive what it is you are getting.

It occurred to me to look up and around at the stars in the clear sky, at the trees in the dark, at the half moon. I was missing them because I was caught in...