Top 100 Quotes About The Present Moment
#1. Fearing the future & worrying about repeating the past will always rob one of the present moment.
Timothy Pina
#2. To meditate is to be aware of what is going on - in our bodies, our feelings our minds, and in the world. When we settle into the present moment, we can see the beauties and wonders before our eyes.
Nhat Hanh
#3. Nothing is more endangered in the modern world than the powerful combination of hard work toward meaningful goals joined with an exuberant embrace of the present moment.
Old Tom Morris
#4. Let's forget the past and keep in mind the future, but enjoy the present moment.
Debasish Mridha
#5. The real honesty is a responsibility to the present moment. It needs tremendous awareness. You have to be honest to the present moment, not to the past, not to the future.
Rajneesh
#6. But the longer and further I ran, the more I realized that what I was often chasing was a state of mind- a place where worries that seemed monumental melted away, where the beauty and timelessness of the universe, of the present moment, came into sharp focus.
Scott Jurek
#7. 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
#8. The most effective way to transform into higher consciousness is to pay attention in the present moment.
Deepak Chopra
#9. Humor requires perspective. Perspective requires focus. Focus requires balance. Balance requires attention to the present moment. In the 'now' one is freed from labels. Success and failure, good luck and bad - they're all constructs of your mind.
Tom Bergeron
#10. When the mind is full of memories and preoccupied by the future, it misses the freshness of the present moment. In this way, we fail to recognize the luminous simplicity of mind that is always present behind the veils of thought.
Matthieu Ricard
#11. 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
#12. Every second since then has been a struggle against my vices and against self-pity. I need to remain focused and calm, to do the work I chose to do with love, and never to cling to the present moment, because death is still very close, the abyss is there beside me, and I am walking along the edge.
Paulo Coelho
#13. Nowhere in the world is presented a government of so much liberty and equality. To the humblest and poorest amongst us are held out the highest privileges and positions. The present moment finds me at the White House, yet there is as good a chance for your children as there was for my father's.
Abraham Lincoln
#14. 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
#15. Accept the present moment and find the perfection that is deeper than any form and untouched by time. The
Eckhart Tolle
#16. Above all, live in the present moment and God will give you all the grace you need.
Francois Fenelon
#17. 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 !
Camille Paglia
#18. By watching the mechanics of the mind, you step out of its resistance patterns, and you can then allow the present moment to be.
Eckhart Tolle
#19. 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
#20. Future is something imaginary but the present moment is something real!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#21. The present moment is the field on which the game of life happens. It cannot happen anywhere else.
Eckhart Tolle
#23. Bringing people into the here-and-now. The real universe. That's the present moment. The past is no good to us. The future is full of anxiety. Only the present is real
the here-and-now. Seize the day.
Saul Bellow
#24. Living in the present moment creates the experience of eternity.
Deepak Chopra
#25. 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
#26. To survive you must surrender without giving in, that is to say, fully accept the reality in all its horror and never give up the will to survive. That allows you to quickly adapt to the situation and dedicate yourself to the present moment rather than wallow in denial.
Laurence Gonzales
#27. When learning use the present moment to FOCUS on comprehension bringing the information into the flesh.
Matthew Donnelly
#28. The most intriguing thing about the present moment is that it never grows old.
Deepak Chopra
#29. It may seem proper to comfort those in darkness by emulating their shadow thoughts, but you will help to eliminate that darkness altogether by bringing light to the present moment.
Wayne Dyer
#30. I took her word and didn't let my concern for my future ruin the present moment.
S.A. Tawks
#31. There are very few men-and they are the exceptions-who are able to think and feel beyond the present moment
Carl Von Clausewitz
#32. 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
#33. Don't live in the past, don't ponder about the future, stay at the PRESENT moment NOW ... always.
Mark Twain
#35. But though predictions may be wrong, they are right about the people who voice them, not about their future but about their experience of the present moment
Milan Kundera
#36. Working for peace in the future is to work for peace in the present moment.
Nhat Hanh
#37. Our emotional mind will harness the rational mind to its purposes, for our feelings and reactions
rationalizations
justifying them in terms of the present moment, without realizing the influence of our emotional memory.
Daniel Goleman
#38. According to the Buddha, life is available only in the here and now, the present moment. He said, "The past is already gone, the future is not yet here. There's only one moment for you to live, and that is the present moment." If you miss the present moment, you miss your appointment with life.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#39. If you can see it, hear it, feel it, taste it, touch it, or smell it, you can be present with it. It is of the present moment, and so it brings to you the opportunity to be present with it.
Leonard Jacobson
#40. And you cannot move at all in Time, you cannot get away from the present moment.
H.G.Wells
#41. Don't be so focused on the past or future situations that you overlook the beauty of the present moment that is NOW.
Excerpt from "Living in Light, Love & Truth". (Page 29).
Kasi Kaye Iliopoulos
#42. The only moment ever available to you is the present moment. Everything else is memory or imagination.
Leonard Jacobson
#43. Welcome to the present moment. Here. Now. The only moment there ever is.
Eckhart Tolle
#44. 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
#45. Do not discourage your children from hoarding, if they have a taste to it; whoever lays up his penny rather than part with it for a cake, at least is not the slave of gross appetite; and shows besides a preference always to be esteemed, of the future to the present moment.
Samuel Johnson
#46. 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
#47. This is the sleep: being absent, being not present to the present moment, being somewhere else.
Rajneesh
#48. This I say is the present moment; this is the first day of the summer holidays. This is part of the emerging monster to whom we are attached.
Virginia Woolf
#49. 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
#50. It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.
Eckhart Tolle
#51. 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
#52. Acceptance is the magic that makes change possible. It is not forever, it is for the present moment
Melody Beattie
#53. The intensity of the pain depends on the degree of resistance to the present moment.
Eckhart Tolle
#54. You should enjoy the present moment because this is all you have. Create for tomorrow, but live in and for today.
Robert Anthony
#55. The point of power is always in the present moment.
Louise L. Hay
#57. The present moment is the combination of future and past ... so let's live and sometimes, sometimes let's just forget about the rest!
Haidji
#58. 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
#59. Many people live habitually as if the present moment were an obstacle that they need to overcome in order to get to the next moment, and imagine living your whole live like that. Always, this moment is not quite good enough because you need to get to the next one.
Eckhart Tolle
#60. We tell ourselves that the more time we have at our disposal, the more opportunity we will have of finding greater happiness. But again we are looking to the future, to the times we will create. Again we miss the enjoyment of the present moment.
Russell Peters
#61. You don't exist in the past or in the future. You only exist in the present moment.
Debasish Mridha
#62. 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
#63. God is not in heaven - God is in the present moment. If you are also in the present moment you enter the temple.
Rajneesh
#64. Hindsight creates the illusion that your life has led you inevitably to the present moment.
Jennifer Egan
#65. 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
#66. 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
#67. My friend, the sufi is the friend of the present moment. To say tomorrow is not our way.
Rumi
#68. You do not need to know precisely what is happening, or exactly where it is all going. What you need is to recognize the possibilities and challenges offered by the present moment, and to embrace them with courage, faith and hope.
Thomas Merton
#69. The past and the present, might we say, go like this. The future is a maybe. Yet we look back on the darkness that obscures the path that brought us fair, we only come up with another indefinite maybe. The only thing we perceive with any clarity is the present moment, and even that just passes by.
Haruki Murakami
#70. Usually, we ignore the present moment and, by doing so, we take away its power.
Tom Kenyon
#71. Enlightenment, peace, and joy will not be granted by someone else. The well is within us, And if we dig deeply in the present moment, The water will spring forth
Thich Nhat Hanh
#72. 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
#73. Transformations is the word. We can do the work of transformation only in the present moment
Nhat Hanh
#74. 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
#75. We all have limitations. They are worth befriending. They teach us a lot. They can show us what we most need to pay attention to and honor. They become our cutting edge for learning and growing and gentling ourselves into the present moment as it is.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
#76. The decision to make the present moment into your friend is the end of ego.
Eckhart Tolle
#77. 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
#78. Breathing in, there is only the present moment.
Breathing out, it is a wonderful moment.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#79. There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man's whole life is a succession of moment after moment. There will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue. Live being true to the single purpose of the moment.
Tsunetomo Yamamoto
#80. To meditate with mindful breathing is to bring body and mind back to the present moment so that you do not miss your appointment with life.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#81. 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
#82. The present moment is the only moment available to us and it is the door to all other moments.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#83. Challenges are something that can only be tackled in the present moment and require action.
Eckhart Tolle
#84. The future only gets brighter if we don't forget to enlighten the present moment.
Debasish Mridha
#85. All the happiness and fulfillment that humans yearn for exists in the present moment.
Deepak Chopra
#86. 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. The truth is in the present moment. The great paradox is that when I'm really able to do that, time slows down and opens up. Time feels suddenly and inexplicably without end.
Dani Shapiro
#87. When you feel distracted, engage in self-talk. Ask yourself: "What am I focusing on?" Return to the present moment. What do you need to accomplish? Check into what you need and check out of what you do not need. Talk
Mike Cernovich
#88. When the basis for your actions is inner alignment with the present moment, your actions become empowered by the intelligence of life itself.
Eckhart Tolle
#89. Life is only available in the present moment.
Nhat Hanh
#90. For me, looking back is akin to being on a tightrope and looking down. It doesn't help you in the present moment to deal with what you have to deal with in order to move forward.
The Edge
#91. 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,
Arthur Conan Doyle
#92. Time is the horizontal dimension of life, the surface layer of reality. Then there is the vertical dimension of depth, accessible only through the portal of the present moment.
Eckhart Tolle
#93. One who lives in accordance with nature does not go against the way of things but moves in harmony with the present moment.
Laozi
#94. All that we are looking for in life - all the happiness, contentment, and peace of mind - is right here in the present moment.
Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
#95. All you need are these: certainty of judgment in the present moment; action for the common good in the present moment; and an attitude of gratitude in the present moment for anything that comes your way." - MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 9.6
Ryan Holiday
#96. Put the past behind you, the present moment is all that matters, in the life of those who want to be happy.
Leon Brown
#97. In life, there is only the present moment, the now. You can't measure time the way you measure distance between two points. "Time" doesn't pass.
Paulo Coelho
#98. From about 5 years old on, I was very contemplative and started to become constantly filled with nostalgia for the present moment and the feeling that it's always fleeting.
Alex Ebert
#99. Mindfulness can be summed up in seven words:
Deliberate Focused Attention In The Present Moment.
- Denis J
Denis John George
#100. If you could travel back in time to the present moment, what would you do differently?
Robert Breault
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