Top 100 Fully Present Quotes
#2. It is a mistake to imagine that you can awaken in any kind of permanent way. There is only NOW and so you can only be awake now. Even the idea of permanence is an illusion. The question to ask is 'Am I awake and fully present NOW?' That question arises and is answered in perfect silence.
Leonard Jacobson
#3. 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.
Eckhart Tolle
#4. To lose yourself: a voluptuous surrender, lost in your arms, lost to the world, utterly immersed in what is present so that its surroundings fade away. In Benjamin's terms, to be lost is to be fully present, and to be fully present is to be capable of being in uncertainty and mystery.
Rebecca Solnit
#5. I believe that when we are fully present, we not only live well, we live well for others.
Terry Tempest Williams
#6. Stillness is a harder concept for me than ecstasy, but I can imagine it best when I am fully present and paying strict attention to a place I am moving through.
Pam Houston
#7. You will enjoy any activity in which you are fully present ...
Eckhart Tolle
#8. Like butterflies, we evolve; but as Beings of Light we continuously evolve when we are fully present.
Michelle Cruz-Rosado
#9. As long as you're fully present in what you're doing at the moment, you're doing it.
Vanessa Paradis
#10. Being fully present isn't something that happens once and then you have achieved it; it's being awake to the ebb and flow and movement and creation of life, being alive to the process of life itself.
Pema Chodron
#11. To be in flow means to be totally absorbed in whatever one is doing at the moment. It occurs when one is fully present and completely focused on the task at hand ... Flow can occur during any human activity, whether work or at play.
Dalai Lama
#12. The quintessential feminine Self stands at the center of the psyche and it is wild, meaning natural and free, and utterly wise. It is not 'something' we must strive to create. This Self is already fully present, burning strong and waiting for us to come into its presence.
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
#13. To be fully present with what is, is to be content ... and to be content is to be blessed by everything that happens in life.
Michael Neill
#14. Live in the mysterious. Accepting and being fully at peace with not knowing what's going to happen in the future will allow us to be fully present and more peaceful in the present.
Matthew Donnelly
#15. Can we be clear about who we are, what we want? Can we be fully present in our truth, and communicate that? Can we understand each other?
Jay Woodman
#16. Each of us is the best we can be when we are fully present, focused yet relaxed, curious yet non-judgmental, committed yet flexible.
John Kuypers
#17. Too many leaders are so caught up in the momentum of work that they lose sight of the opportunity to connect with people. I discovered that the more fully present I was with other people, the more fully present they were with me, and the more productive our relationship became over time.
Douglas Conant
#18. You can't be fully present in your body without being present in your ass.
Charlie Glickman
#19. Most humans are never fully present in the now, because unconsciously they believe that the next moment must be more important than this one. But then you miss your whole life, which is never not now.
Eckhart Tolle
#21. Wherever you are, be there. If you can be fully present now, you'll know what it means to live.
Steve Goodier
#22. The gift of presence is a rare and beautiful gift. To come - unguarded, undistracted - and be fully present, fully engaged with whoever we are with at that moment.
John Eldredge
#23. It is better to be fully present and rested and engaged for one thing than rushed, distracted, and scattered for ten.
Rob Bell
#24. I am fully present wherever I am. Why bother being in a community or neighborhood and not being fully present? I think that's colonization. I'm not interested in that.
Mark Bradford
#25. You have to let yourself be fully present in every moment. Just be awake for it, do you know what I mean? Go all in and wring every last drop out of the experience.
Jenny Han
#26. 1:22 He accomplished this in dying our death in a human body; he fully represented us in order to fully present us again in blameless innocence, face-to-face with God; with no sense of guilt, suspicion, regret, or accusation; all charges against us are officially cancelled.
Francois Du Toit
#27. To live in the light of a new day and an unimaginable and unpredictable future, you must become fully present to a deeper truth - not a truth from your head, but a truth from your heart; not a truth from your ego, but a truth from the highest source.
Debbie Ford
#28. The best way-the only way-to be truly healing is to be fully present and to stay out of the way.
Nancy Kyes
#29. It is not until you awaken and become fully present that you will realize that you have not been present. It is not until you awaken that you will realize you have been asleep, dreaming that you are awake.
Leonard Jacobson
#30. For Christian faith, the death of God is not a question of his disappearance. On the contrary, it is one of the places where He is most fully present. Jesus is not Man standing in for God. He is a sign that God is incarnate in human frailty and futility.
James Carroll
#31. True perfection seems imperfect,
yet it is perfectly itself.
True fullness seems empty,
yet it is fully present.
True straightness seems crooked.
True wisdom seems foolish.
True art seems artless.
Lao-Tzu
#32. Finding peace will help pave your path.
you have to be [fully] present to experience
and understand what you need to keep going.
Alexandra Elle
#33. Isn't it true (I thought), that one is almost never present, or rather never fully present, and that's because we have only a halfhearted, chaotic and slipshod, disgraceful and vile relationship with out surroundings.
Witold Gombrowicz
#34. When you are fully present, you are truly living; the rest of the time, you are merely existing
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#35. I believe in being fully present. That means you should be with the person you're with.
Morrie Schwartz.
#36. Writers are never fully present because they're always imagining a different version of the way things are happening; imagining the past in a different way, imagining the present in a different way, imagining the future in a different way.
Jessica Soffer
#37. The most radical thing any of us can do at this time is to be fully present to what is happening in the world.
Joanna Macy
#39. Feel this moment, see it with a willingness to experience it deeply, whether it be good, bad, or indifferent. Emotionally and feelingly be fully present, right here, vulnerable, with your heart. Just be present. Don't live from your conditioned mind, live from unconditional truth.
Adyashanti
#40. Be fully present for five minutes every day.
Geneen Roth
#41. No matter what is going on around or within you, everything at some point must change. It's harder to accept when things are great - and a source of strength when change is what you need. Either way, it reminds me to try my best to be fully present in every moment.
Kandyse McClure
#42. Being fully present is the best guarantee for a bright future.
Guy Finley
#43. I feel inauthentic at a party ... Going to a party is a 'low' activity - the authentic self is compromised, fragmented - one plays 'roles.' One isn't fully present, beyond role-playing. One doesn't (can't) tell the full truth, which means one is lying, even if one doesn't literally tell lies.
Susan Sontag
#44. To be awake is to be fully present, no noise, just you and God. Most of us only have seconds of full consciousness. To live in a state of Samadhi - that's what we're here for.
Russell Simmons
#45. The goal of using our voice is not just to be noticed, but with humility to gracefully be fully present in relationships. Deferring to another person does not require that we be ignored; allowing that is cowardice. Hiding, a form of dishonesty, prevents true community.
Rosalie De Rosset
#46. You have been called to be who you are - the whole luminous light. No one can dim your light when you are fully present to the depth and breadth of it.
Debbie Ford
#47. By our life and deeds of love, we are making the Church fully present in the world today.
Mother Teresa
#48. I can enjoy what I'm engaged in and be fully present rather than planning my answers to questions while someone else is speaking or thinking about my next appointment while my current engagement is still in in progress.
Iman
#49. You cannot be both unhappy, and fully present in the Now.
Eckhart Tolle
#50. True religion has, at its core: Love, Peace, Mercy, Justice and Freedom. If any of these elements is not fully present in a religion, the religion has been compromised.
Jim Carrey
#51. We usually evaluate creative process in terms of how much feeling or thinking was behind the work or how well the work was done. Isn't there any other way of appreciating the process? What if the standard of excellence was how fully present the artist was during the process?
Kazuaki Tanahashi
#52. To be lost is to be fully present, and to be fully present is to be capable of being in uncertainty and mystery. And one does not get lost but loses oneself, with the implication that it is a conscious choice, a chosen surrender ...
Rebecca Solnit
#53. When you are fully present with everyone you meet, you relinquish the conceptual identity you made for them - your interpretation of who they are and what they did in the past - and are able to interact without the egoic movements of desire and fear. Attention, which is alert stillness, is the key.
Eckhart Tolle
#54. Clinical training in psychoanalysis has a deficit. It teaches how to sit and think about what a person is saying and how to interpret it intellectually, but not how to be fully present to this person.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
#55. When I was going through menopause, I didn't sleep. I didn't sleep for two years and ended up blowing out my thyroid, and I became nonfunctional. It's difficult to remain fully present if I'm not getting enough sleep, so I work at getting enough.
Oprah Winfrey
#56. In basketball - as in life - true joy comes from being fully present in each and every moment, not just when things are going your way.
Phil Jackson
#57. Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it. Doing so cuts the link between the fear and your thinking. Don't let the fear rise up into your mind. Use the power of the Now. Fear cannot prevail against it.
Eckhart Tolle
#58. Normal people live distracted, rarely fully present. Weird people silence the distractions and remain fully in the moment.
Craig Groeschel
#59. I knew I could never forget my past, but I wanted to stop talking about it so that I would be fully present in my new life.
Ishmael Beah
#60. Talk to Allah in your own language with your heart fully present. Allah doesn't need you to rhyme or speak arabic.
Omar Suleiman
#61. Have the # life you want by being fully present to the life you have.
Mark Nepo
#62. Either you 'are' in your mind, or you are where you are. Fully present.
Matthew Donnelly
#63. As you get older, you see how rapidly the years and decades fly by, so I would encourage anyone, no matter the age, to seize their life and be fully present.
Theo Rossi
#64. In this state of inner connectedness, you are much more alert, more awake than in the mind-identified state. You are fully present. It also raises the vibrational frequency of the energy field that give life to the physical body.
Eckhart Tolle
#65. At any moment the fully present mind can shatter time and burst into Now.
David Steindl-Rast
#66. Spirituality does not require that you work hard toward achieving a result in the future as much as it requires you to be fully present, sincere and committed now, with absolute honesty and willingness to uncover and let go of any illusions that come between you and the realization of Reality.
Adyashanti
#67. It is not possible that you could ever find yourself anywhere where God was not fully present, fully active, able and willing to set you free.
Emmet Fox
#68. Then what is the relationship between something that you do and the state of joy? You will enjoy any activity in which you are fully present, any activity that is not just a means to an end. It isn't the action you perform that you really enjoy, but the deep sense of aliveness that flows into
Eckhart Tolle
#69. When you surrender to what is and so become fully present, the past ceases to have any power. You do not need it anymore. Presence is the key. Now is the key.
Eckhart Tolle
#70. This was the gift of recovery, he thought. The ability to be here in this moment with the female he loved and be fully aware, fully awake, fully present. Undiluted.
J.R. Ward
#71. When you are fully present, you transcend duality and open into Oneness. In Presence, there is power without opposition. There is love without hate, acceptance without judgment and allowing without control.
Leonard Jacobson
#72. Live fully present in this world with your heart attuned to God's heart, and you will be torn by the sight of so much suffering and ignorance.
Maria Grace Dateno
#73. Glorious sex that poets write about and that angels blow their trumpets over absolutely requires the participants to be fully engaged and fully witnessing the entire event!
Roberto Hogue
#74. Live the present intensely and fully, do not let the past be a burden, and let the future be an incentive. Each person forges his or her own destiny.
Carlos Slim
#75. Mindfulness is continuous undisturbed awareness of the present moment. Fully aware of here, and now, we pay attention to what is happening right in front of us, we set aside our mental and emotional baggage. To be mindful we have to re-train our mind.
Natasa Nuit Pantovic
#77. What keeps us from happiness is our inability to fully inhabit the present
Alan Watts
#78. A society is always eager to cover misdeeds with a cloak of forgetfulness, but no society can fully repress an ugly past when the ravages persist into the present. America owes a debt of justice which it has only begun to pay.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#79. We do not heal the past by dwelling there; we heal the past by living fully in the present.
Marianne Williamson
#80. Meditation is really quite simple. All we have to do is embrace each experience with awareness and open our hearts fully to the present moment. When we are completely at ease with our own being, the ripples of awareness naturally spread out in all directions, touching the lives of everyone we meet.
Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
#81. If we are not fully ourselves, truly in the present moment, we miss everything.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#82. To be concentrated means to live fully in the present.
Erich Fromm
#83. To not understand neocolonialism is to not fully live in the present.
Bell Hooks
#84. Don't get caught in "Waiting". When I 'Get This' then I will be able to fully 'Live'. Escape the time dominant mind by fully being here 'NOW'.
Matthew Donnelly
#85. Witness the choices you make in every moment. The best way to prepare for any moment in the future is to be fully conscious in the present.
Deepak Chopra
#86. We learn to become more empathic when we slow down, become present, and are fully committed to understanding another person's uniqueness.
Arthur P. Ciaramicoli
#87. Active waiting means present fully to the moment, in the conviction that something is happening where you are and that you want to be present to it.
Henri Nouwen
#88. Children raised with love and compassion will be free to use their time as adults in meaningful and creative ways, rather than expressing their childhood hurts in ways that harm themselves or others. If adults have no need to deal with the past, they can live fully in the present.
Jan Hunt
#89. Everything in our lives," she said quietly, "leads to everything else in our lives. So a moment in the present has a reference point, both in the past and in the future. I want you to know that you
as you are right now and as you ever will be
are fully enough for this moment ...
Elizabeth George
#90. [re: I Corinthians 15:34,58] "The present life of the church, in other words, is not about "soul-making," the attempt to produce or train disembodied beings for a future disembodied life. It is about working with fully human beings who will be reembodied at the last, after the model of the Messiah.
N. T. Wright
#91. The more you are grateful for what you have, the more you can live fully in the present.
Dana Arcuri
#92. Attention to the present moment. We make the choice, moment by moment, to be fully here. Attending to our present-moment mind and body is a way of being tender toward self, toward other, and toward the world. This quality of attention is inherent in our ability to love.
Pema Chodron
#93. As you will see, mindfulness practice does not need to be another "add-on." Its beauty lies in the fact that it can be fully and easily integrated into every act of our daily living, reminding us to live the present moment fully.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#94. We can't heal what we don't feel. We can't have a future until we fully inhabit our present. It's like the proverbial Groundhog Day. Most people don't live 70-90 years; they live the same year 70-90 times because they keep regurgitating an incomplete present.
Derek Rydall
#95. Education is what people do to you. Learning is what you do to yourself. Focus on being connected, always learning, fully aware and super present.
Joichi Ito
#96. Bring awareness to each act. Walking on the road, walk fully alert; eating, eat with awareness. Whatsoever you are doing, don't let the past and the future interfere. Be in the present. That's what awareness is all about.
Rajneesh
#97. Your primary purpose is to be here fully, and to be total in whatever you do so that the preciousness of the present moment does not become reduced to a means to an end. And there you have your life purpose. That's the very foundation of your life.
Eckhart Tolle
#98. The turmoil and dislocations confronting present-day society will not be solved until both the scientific and religious genius of the human race are fully utilized.
Baha'i International Community
#99. If you carve out what you expect, that's how you end up getting disappointed, not living fully in the present.
Gwyneth Paltrow
#100. We in our present generation stand on the cusp of a new and glorious dawn when mastery of these energies lies fully within our grasp as secret yields to inquiry, which yields to experimentation, which leads to verification and duplication, which, in the final course, leads to knowledge.
Stephen R. Lawhead
