In The Present Moment Quotes

#1. Having contentment and gratitude in the present moment is the surest way to achieve success.

Bryant McGill

#2. I kept hearing about mindfulness, which isn't a new subject. In fact it's rooted in ancient Buddhism. Wikipedia defines Mindfulness as "The intentional, accepting, non-judgmental focus of one's attention on the emotions, thoughts and sensations occurring in the present moment.

KP Croft

#3. Suffering happens when we expect life to be something more and different than what it is in the present moment. When we let go of all expectations, there is peace.

Kim Eng

#4. The problem with fantasy is the greatest benefit of fantasy: it prevents us from living in the present moment.

Geneen Roth

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

Eckhart Tolle

#6. An open and receptive attention to and awareness of what is occurring in the present moment

Matt Peplinski

#7. The noun of self becomes a verb. This flashpoint of creation in the present moment is where work and play merge.

Stephen Nachmanovitch

#8. The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#9. The challenge for each of us is to find out who we are and to live our way into our own calling.we do this by paying close attention to all aspects of life as they unfold in the present moment.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

#10. Life is a series of choices that are made in the present moment.

Darren Main

#11. Know that life can only be found in the present moment.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#12. Anxiety, the illness of our time, comes primarily from our inability to dwell in the present moment.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#13. The fast pace of our lives makes it difficult for us to find grace in the present moment, and when the simple gifts at our fingertips cease to nourish us, we have a tendency to crave the sensational.

Macrina Wiederkehr

#14. In simple, the past is a time gone by and no longer exists in the present moment, but we choose to allow this past to occupy our minds, our bodies and our very existence.

Asa Don Brown

#15. Nothing in the past is as powerful as what we choose to do in the present moment.

Louise Hay

#16. 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 problem in disregarding the empty chit-chat of the Ego, the mind!

Frank M. Wanderer

#17. All there really is to do now, is to be in the present Moment.

Drunvalo Melchizedek

#18. Breathing in, I calm my body. Breathing out, I smile. Dwelling in the present moment I know this is a wonderful moment.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#19. I would say what makes me vulnerable is when I allow my mind to spiral. You know? When I start not being in the present moment and I start skipping ahead and picturing my daughter driving on the freeway on a late saturday night.

Lauren Bowles

#20. Shakespeare's exquisite imagining belies our total inability to live in the present moment.

Harold Bloom

#21. Most of the people who come into slavery today, the people who enter into slavery for the first time in the present moment, are not captured, they're not knocked over the head, it doesn't follow the old sorts of mechanisms.

Kevin Bales

#22. This is what it means to be mindful. To watch the thoughts as they come and go without judgment while completely accepting what arises in the present moment.

Chris Matakas

#23. When we ground ourselves in the present moment, we spontaneously connect better with others. We become more responsive and less reactive, listening more deeply and speaking with greater clarity.

Lama Surya Das

#24. Once you uncover the history of this pattern and trace its roots, you will see that your reaction in the present moment is really a reaction from the past, a shadow character's attempt to protect you from reexperiencing an old emotional wound, which instead sabotages you in the present.

Connie Zweig

#25. This present moment never comes to be and it never ceases to be, it is simply our minds that construct the continuity of thoughts we call time. In the present moment is nirvana.

Alan Watts

#26. I live in the present moment and easily release all past pain.

Louise Hay

#27. In the present moment, you are beyond all definition. This means that you are no longer defined by the pain and limitations of the past. You are no longer defined by your judgments, opinions or beliefs nor are you defined by the judgment, opinions or beliefs of others.

Leonard Jacobson

#28. Life can only take place in the present moment. If we lose the present moment, we lose life.

Gautama Buddha

#29. But don't get too hung up on the future. The future's out of your control. Enjoy what's happening right now. Do what is appropriate, what is right, in the present moment and let the future be the future.

Brad Warner

#30. Consciousness is observing your thoughts and actions so that you can live from true choice in the present moment rather than being run by programming from the past.

T. Harv Eker

#31. To be mindful is to keep your thoughts in the present moment. A mindful person does not look back with regret or forward with worry.

Hannah Robbins

#32. That is why those who are not capable of being there in the present moment, they don't really live their life - they live like dead people.

Nhat Hanh

#33. To a large degree, the measure of our peace of mind is determined by how much we are able to live in the present moment. Irrespective of what happened yesterday or last year, and what may or may not happen tomorrow, the present moment is where you are - always!

Richard Carlson

#34. Our minds tend to race ahead into the future or replay the past, but our bodies are always in the present moment.

Sharon Salzberg

#35. Sometimes in order to be happy in the present moment you have to be willing to give up all hope for a better past.

Robert Holden

#36. 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.

Miguel Angel Ruiz

#37. I live in the present moment.

Stacy Keibler

#38. Try and live in the present moment. Create appointments with yourself to specifically work on your mental picture. Then fall back into the present moment.

Christopher Dines

#39. Love is not a fantasy, or an image of the way someone used to be or should become. Love is seeing people for who they really are in the present moment.

Cloris Kylie

#40. Body awareness not only anchors you in the present moment. It is a doorway out of the prison that is the ego.

Eckhart Tolle

#41. Western civilization places so much emphasis on the idea of hope that we sacrifice the present moment. Hope is for the future. It cannot help us discover joy, peace, or enlightenment in the present moment.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#42. Nourish yourself every day with the wonderful things that life has to offer you. Nourish yourself in the present moment. Walk in the kingdom of God.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#43. No particular music makes me feel nostalgic. If it's great, it just keeps me in the present moment. That level of music is like a classic story, like the Iliad-something so perfect it can never be old.

Wynton Marsalis

#44. I can feel guilty about the past,
Apprehensive about the future,but only in the present can I act.The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.

Abraham H. Maslow

#45. Take as much time as you need to feel what is demanding to be felt in the present moment. But keep in mind that all emotions are temporary reactions and they can't be sustained for long periods of time. Allow them to settle and rest without reigniting them through judgement or shame.

Emily Maroutian

#46. By living deeply in the present moment we can understand the past better & prepare for a better future.

Nhat Hanh

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

Oliver Goldsmith

#48. When I make the effort to pay attention to the sights, sounds and sensations around me, I'm encouraging myself to live in the present moment.

Deepak Chopra

#49. The truth is in the present moment.

Dani Shapiro

#50. The total acceptance of ourselves in the present moment without judging things that happen, letting things happen as they happen, is the final act that frees us from the ego: this is the unconditional surrender of the ego to the Higher Self.

Human Angels

#51. That summer, maybe for the first time in my life, I existed wholly in the present moment, which is one of the liberating things about traveling to a place where no one knows you. I had no past or future, which suited me perfectly, since I did not wish to reckon with either.

Rachel Friedman

#52. We don't have to go in search of our mission or purpose. The more we search for it, the more it will elude us. We just have to be ourselves and find our joy in the present moment or do what calls us in the present moment and our mission will unfold.

Anita Moorjani

#53. The most effective way to transform into higher consciousness is to pay attention in the present moment.

Deepak Chopra

#54. I teach that the foundation for our practice is being able to go inward and disconnect from the busyness of our thoughts, that focusing the mind on bodily sensations and breath will ground us in the present moment. Yoga is about realizing who you really are, aside from your persona.

James Fox

#55. Weed out worry, guilt, hate and fear from your life. Live in the present moment earnestly and wisely, without mourning about the past or anticipating troubles in the future.

Sanchita Pandey

#56. Above all, live in the present moment and God will give you all the grace you need.

Francois Fenelon

#57. The extraction of deep wisdom can be done at any age, and if we are to love the time of our life, it must be. Imbedded within us is the deeper story we came to live, and the core issue at every age for any awakened human being is the extent to which we are living that story in the present moment.

Carolyn Baker

#58. Living in the present moment creates the experience of eternity.

Deepak Chopra

#59. An amazing realization is in the present moment there is only what is, but there are no problems. And if your attention remains in the Now, you no longer inhabit a world of problems. Challenges you may still face, but they come to you in the space of Now.

Eckhart Tolle

#60. When we return to our breathing, we return to the present moment, our true home. There's no need for us to struggle to arrive somewhere else. We know our final destination is the cemetery. Why are we in a hurry to get there? Why not step in the direction of life, which is in the present moment?

Thich Nhat Hanh

#61. Life is available only in the present moment.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#62. Working for peace in the future is to work for peace in the present moment.

Nhat Hanh

#63. It's never too late to change the programming imprinted in childhood, carried in our genes or derived from previous lives; the solution is mindfulness in the present moment.

Peter Shepherd

#64. To live in the present moment is a miracle. The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green Earth in the present moment, to appreciate the peace and beauty that are available now.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#65. Mindfulness means moment-to-moment, non-judgmental awareness. It is cultivated by refining our capacity to pay attention, intentionally, in the present moment, and then sustaining that attention over time as best we can. In the process, we become more in touch with our life as it is unfolding.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

#66. All meditations are nothing but efforts to bring you to the present. When you live in the present moment, with no past hanging around you, with no future projection, you are free from life and death, you are free from body and mind. You are free - simply free - you are freedom.

Rajneesh

#67. The point of power is always in the present moment.

Louise L. Hay

#68. The skill of mindfulness allows you to remain grounded in the present moment even when you face difficult stressors, so that your stressful feelings feel more manageable..

Melanie Greenberg

#69. You don't exist in the past or in the future. You only exist in the present moment.

Debasish Mridha

#70. I shall no longer fear what's on the roads ahead of me ... nor shall I be in despair about what I left behind. I shall live in the present moment and strive for greatness and work to brighten humanity with each step I take.

Timothy Pina

#71. God is not in heaven - God is in the present moment. If you are also in the present moment you enter the temple.

Rajneesh

#72. 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.

Amy Smart

#73. In the classic Zen in the Art of Archery, Eugen Herrigel's teacher urged him always to take his next shot unburdened by previous failures to hit the target; as he improved, his teacher urged him not to be influenced by his successes either, to stay in the present moment.

Alex Soojung-Kim Pang

#74. When the Buddha gave a talk to a large gathering of businessmen, the core of his message to them was, "It is possible to live happily right in the present moment.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#75. No matter what situation we find ourselves in, we can always set our compass to our highest intentions in the present moment

Jack Kornfield

#76. Gratitude can help you stay in the present moment.

Christopher Dines

#77. The secret to happiness is to live in the present moment with gratitude and kindness.

Debasish Mridha

#78. Mindfulness encourages us to exist in the present moment.

Anne Williams

#79. A great hallmark of mental wellness is the ability to be in the present moment, fully and with no thoughts of being elsewhere.

Wayne Dyer

#80. The conjunction of effort, concentration and balance in asana forces us to live intensely in the present moment, a rare experience in modern life.

B.K.S. Iyengar

#81. Inspiration originally meant "being in spirit", indicating that when we are inspired we are connected to a higher domain of pure awareness and pure consciousness. True inspiration can only flow through us when we are anchored in the present moment.

Christopher Dines

#82. Worrying is worthless. When you stop focusing on what has already happened and what may never happen, then you'll be in the present moment. Then you'll begin to experience joy in life.

Brian Weiss

#83. God himself culminates in the present moment, and will never be more divine in the lapse of all the ages.

Henry David Thoreau

#84. The art of life is to live in the present moment and to make that moment as perfect as we can by the realization that we are the instruments and expression of God himself.

Emmet Fox

#85. Memories are painful and beautiful; wisdom is wonderful. When I am living in the present moment, I use wisdom and enjoy the memories of the past.

Debasish Mridha

#86. To enjoy the beauty of life, live profoundly in the present moment without the fear of the past or future.

Debasish Mridha

#87. Mindfulness is the awareness of what is going on in us and around us in the present moment. It requires stopping, looking deeply, and recognizing both the uniqueness of the moment and its connection to everything that has gone on before and will go on in the future.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#88. Transformations is the word. We can do the work of transformation only in the present moment

Nhat Hanh

#89. Breathing in, I calm body and mind. Breathing out, I smile. Dwelling in the present moment I know this is the only moment.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#90. I discovered the secret of writing - live in the present moment. Do not fantasize about possible response because you cannot know the future.

Erica Jong

#91. The reality is that we are safe and we have the capacity to enjoy the wonders of life in the present moment. When we recognize that our suffering is based on images instead of current reality, then living happily in the present moment becomes possible right away.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#92. Challenges are something that can only be tackled in the present moment and require action.

Eckhart Tolle

#93. All the happiness and fulfillment that humans yearn for exists in the present moment.

Deepak Chopra

#94. Paying attention on purpose in the present moment and non-judgmentally.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

#95. The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.

Eckhart Tolle

#96. There is no past. That's another illusion. Everything that has ever happened to you, to me, to anyone in this world, happened in the present moment. That's all there ever is. So your relationship to life isn't your relationship to your past, it's your relationship to the present moment.

Wayne Dyer

#97. The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if we do not go back to ourselves in the present moment, we cannot be in touch with life.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#98. Living in the present moment or commonly know as Mindfulness is being aware and conscious of your surroundings. From awareness, we evolve into the moment rather than regretting the past or fearing the future. It leads to full consciousness, even intuition.

Suresh Devnani

#99. Just breathing and smiling can make us very happy, because when we breathe consciously we recover ourselves completely and encounter life in the present moment.

Nhat Hanh

#100. It's important to have a vision of the long run and make wise decisions for our highest good in the present moment; however, we don't want to become attached to how everything must look. When we show up in good faith, life provides. And when we trust, we are always in the flow of manifestation.

Alaric Hutchinson