Quotes About Being Fully Present

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. I believe in being fully present. That means you should be with the person you're with.

Morrie Schwartz.

#4. Being fully present is the best guarantee for a bright future.

Guy Finley

#5. 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

#6. Have the # life you want by being fully present to the life you have.

Mark Nepo

#7. I believe in being fully present.

Mitch Albom

#8. No one's paying any attention to sociopaths, or they think we're all killers, which is a misconception.

Lisa Scottoline

#9. The mode in which that glory is to be seen in the present is praise. "I will sing praise to my God while I have being." The glory of God, said the theologian Irenaeus, is a human being fully alive.

N. T. Wright

#10. Being fully in the present, you experience the timeless. In the timeless, you find your true self.

Deepak Chopra

#11. Be magic choose and believe that you can do anything you set your mind to believe. We are who we choose to be.

Will Smith

#12. I make believe all my dear ones are not gone, just out of my line of sight beyond some curtain or cluster of people, or tree

Nancy E. Turner

#13. 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

#14. Being completely and totally present and at every single point of space and time, It is fully and completely present here and now, thus we can no more attain immanent Spirit then we could, say, attain our feet.

Ken Wilber

#15. Not that I lack confidence in the outcome," Ferrin said, "but would you consider entrusting the piece of my neck to somebody who is not about to confront one of the most deadly beings in the world?

Brandon Mull

#16. 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

#17. To the being of fully alive, the future is not ominous but a promise; it surrounds the present like a halo.

John Dewey

#18. Be an echo of peace not an echo of bullets.

Debasish Mridha

#19. Being there doesn't mean I'm present. I exist only in words. I want to be transmuted fully to white page and ink.

David Joseph Cribbin

#20. I'm always hearing music in terms of what I can take out of it, and I think I've always listened like that. I have a hard time just listening for pleasure. I'm much less about instinct, and more of a utilitarian listener.

Sufjan Stevens

#21. Gratitude is present when you see that everything that occurs in your life can be used to show you how to live fully as a human being.

Maria Nemeth

#22. It was about more fully inhabiting the life I have, not creating a new one.

Patti Digh

#23. Nothing is more precious than being in the present moment. Fully alive, fully aware.

Nhat Hanh

#24. When you master the art of being fully awake to this moment, you bestow a precious gift on your soul - the experience of love. Being present is the art of the soul.

Debbie Ford

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. You can't be fully present in your body without being present in your ass.

Charlie Glickman

#28. 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

#29. 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

#30. 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

#31. 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

#32. 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

#33. 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

#34. 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

#35. 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