Here And Now Quotes - Page 15

• We on Earth have just awakened to the great oceans of space and time from which we have emerged. We are the legacy of 15 billion years of cosmic evolution. We have a choice: We can enhance life and come to know the universe that made us, or we can squander our 15 billion-year heritage in meaningless self-destruction. What happens in the first second of the next cosmic year depends on what we do, here and now, with our intelligence and our knowledge of the cosmos.

  Carl Sagan

  Ocean, Self, Years

  "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage". Documentary (1990 Update). Episode 1: "The Shores of the Cosmic Ocean", 1990.

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• The Inexhaustible Resource of Spirit is equal to every demand. There is no reality in lack. Abundance is here and now manifest.

  Charles Fillmore

  Reality, Demand, Spirit

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• Christians must return to the great story that has its fulfillment in life after death, so we may live and die well in the light of our extraordinary hope that enables us to embrace the ordinary lives God gives us here and now.

  Michael Horton

  Christian, Light, Giving

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• The workplace needs the poet's gift. But the poet also needs to be educated about the workplace. You're not just coming in to do your art, you're actually making yourself vulnerable. You yourself are not God's gift to truth. You have to hazard yourself in their world, especially because you're inviting people to do the same. It's all about become visible, becoming incarnate, becoming here and now and yet with our eyes on a future horizon; holding the conversation you were meant to hold.

  David Whyte

  Art, Eye, People

  "Courageous Conversations: An Interview with David Whyte". Interview with Kim Rosen, spiritualityhealth.com. December 8, 2014.

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• Absolute perfection is here and now, not in some future, near or far.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Perfection, Absolutes

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• Each particular being, in its individuality, its concrete nature and entity, with all its own characteristics and its private qualities and its own inviolable identity, gives glory to God by being precisely what He wants it to be here and now, in the circumstances ordained for it by His Love and His infinite Art.

  Thomas Merton

  Art, Giving, Individuality

  Thomas Merton (2007). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, p.30, New Directions Publishing

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• There is only the here and now. The past is gone, forgotten.

  Tom Robinson

  Past, Gone, Forgotten

  Source: www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk

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• All we have is here and now. That's why procrastination feels so right. Procrastination isn't the problem, it's the solution.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Funny, Procrastination, Humor

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• You are alive today, and no matter what your condition, make a mark here and now. Opportunity is at every moment, seizing it is pleasure.

  Angelo Sotira

  Opportunity, Live For Today, Alive

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• Yes, your family history has some sad chapters. But your history doesn't have to be your future. The generational garbage can stop here and now.

  Max Lucado

  Life, Garbage Cans, Chapters

  Max Lucado (2013). “God Will Carry You Through”, p.132, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• People tend to focus on the here and now. The problem is that, once global warming is something that most people can feel in the course of their daily lives, it will be too late to prevent much larger, potentially catastrophic changes.

  Elizabeth Kolbert

  Motivational, People, Focus

  "A Planetary Problem". Interview with Amy Davidson, www.newyorker.com. April 25, 2005.

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• I accept myself completely here and now and consciously experience everything I feel, think, say and do (including my emotion backed addictions) as a necessary part of my growth into higher consciousness.

  Ken Keyes Jr.

  Thinking, Addiction, Growth

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• If you filter my words through any tradition or '-ism', you will miss altogether what I am saying. The liberating truth is not static; it is alive. It cannot be put into concepts and be understood by the mind. The truth lies beyond all forms of conceptual fundamentalism. What you are is the beyond—awake and present, here and now already. I am simply helping you to realize that.

  Adyashanti

  Lying, Missing, Mind

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• To be alive is to totally and openly participate in the simplicity and elegance of here and now.

  Don Altman

  Life, Simplicity, Alive

  Don Altman (2011). “One-minute Mindfulness: 50 Simple Ways to Find Peace, Clarity, and New Possibilities in a Stressed-out World”, p.18, New World Library

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• In Buddhism, we speak of touching Nirvana with our own body, In Christianity, you can also touch the Kingdom of God with your body, right here and now. it is much safer than placing our hope in the future. If we cling to the idea of hope in the future, we might not notice the peace and joy that are available in the present moment. The best way to take care of the future is to take care of the present moment.

  Nhat Hanh

  Life, Buddhism, Ideas

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2007). “Living Buddha, Living Christ 20th Anniversary Edition”, p.179, Penguin

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• When people use the word hell, what do they mean? They mean a place, an event, a situation absent of how God desires things to be. Famine, debt, oppression, loneliness, despair, death, slaughter--they are all hell on earth. Jesus' desire for his followers is that they live in such a way that they bring heaven to earth. What's disturbing is when people talk more about hell after this life than they do about Hell here and now. As a Christian, I want to do what I can to resist hell coming to earth.

  Rob Bell

  Christian, Jesus, Loneliness

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• Being more mature now, I've managed to make peace with my past, as it's making peace with me. Certainly there's a mutual gain for reflecting on both phases of my life, and although I consider the here and now perhaps to be more important, there are still many people who appreciate my past ephemeral stages and the lessons they represent.

  Cat Stevens

  Past, People, Appreciate

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• God gives me hope that there is something greater than us, something better and bigger than the here and now, that can help us live.

  Mattie Stepanek

  Giving, Helping, Bigger

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• We all yearn to fly. We are creatures of longing. We do not need to [physically fly] to be airborne. What I call the aerial instinct-the drive to transcend our present condition- is the defining characteristic of a human being. We are restless animals, eternal travelers who are forever in the process of becoming. Consciousness itself is a flight from the here and now to the beyond. Our reach always exceeds our grasp, which is what Heaven is for.

  Sam Keen

  Animal, Forever, Heaven

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• Life is the great indulgence - death the great abstinence. Therefore, make the most of life here and now!

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Anarchy, Life Is, Abstinence

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• When you read the Bible, you must think that here and now, God is speaking with me

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Thinking

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• It ain't that you get religion. Religion gets you and then milks you dry. Won't let you drink a little whiskey. Won't let you make no fat-assed girls grin and giggle. Won't let you do a damn thing except work for what you'll get in the hearafter. I live in the here and now.

  Dorothy Allison

  Girl, Dry, Littles

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• Though we are made of memories, we live only in the here and now.

  Sue Halpern

  Memories, Made

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  The brave who focus on all things good and all things beautiful and all things true, even in the small, who give thanks for it and discover joy even in the here and now, they are the change agents who bring fullest light to all the world.

  Ann Voskamp

  Beautiful, Light, Giving

  FaceBook post by Ann Voskamp from Feb 19, 2014

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• The difficult thing about practice isn't learning to sit for an hour, or sit for a weekend, or go on a three-month retreat, as hard as those things are. The difficult thing is to pay attention to what is happening right here and now.

  Larry Rosenberg

  Weekend, Practice, Pay

  Larry Rosenberg (2004). “Breath by Breath: The Liberating Practice of Insight Meditation”, p.91, Shambhala Publications

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