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• At the present moment, in the prevailing situation, what is most essential is the cultivation of love. Losing love mankind has lost its humanness. Love is the Supreme human value. Truth, righteousness, peace and non-violence are other human values. Knowing these values, men are foolishly leading valueless lives.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Love Is, Men, Knowing

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• I do think that the sense of being opposed to the present moment, that sense of the rub of history, invigorates the writing I find most exciting, and maybe precisely in being equally allegiant to an inward fineness of sensibility and an outward-facing rigor of protest or critique.

  Garth Greenwell

  Writing, Thinking, Inward

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• You simply have to surrender to the present moment. Be alert. Watch something in a state of alertness. Always, continuously, bring that into everyday life, not spirituality here and getting on with your life there.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Everyday, Alertness, Watches

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• You accept whatever happens in the present moment, the only place where it can happen. Internally, you fully accept what is happening, and what is happening may include an emotion, a stream of anxiety that suddenly comes up within you.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Anxiety, May, Emotion

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• Some people say it is hard to live in such a way, being completely one with the present moment. Of course, it is not hard. The opposite is hard. Not being one with life is hard, and that is how most people live.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Opposites, People, Life Is Hard

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• An enlightened person or business is not concerned primarily with making money, because when you are concerned with making money you want the future more than the present. Whenever you want the future more than you want the present, true intelligence cannot flow into what you do, because it can do so only when you are totally aligned with the present moment.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Want, Flow, Making Money

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• If you are trying to get from here to there, and you already are late, you know that you are late, and yet you are aligned with the present moment while you are stuck in a traffic jam. You are totally accepting of the moment.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Trying, Jam, Moments

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• 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

  Effort, Balance, Modern Life

  B. K. S. Iyengar (2012). “Light on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali”, p.32, HarperCollins UK

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• 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

  Action, Moments, Empowered

  Eckhart Tolle (2008). “Oneness With All Life: Inspirational Selections from A New Earth”, p.14, Penguin

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• God is always coming to you in the Sacrament of the Present Moment. Meet and receive Him there with gratitude in that sacrament.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Gratitude, Moments, Sacraments

  Evelyn Underhill (1960). “The Mount of Purification”

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• Stressful energy arises when you think some future moment is more important than the present moment, and the doing becomes only a means to an end.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Mean, Thinking, Important

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• Our appointment with life is in the present moment. If we do not have peace and joy right now, when will we have peace and joy?

  Nhat Hanh

  Joy, Life Is, Moments

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• 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

  Music, Perfect, Stories

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• The truth is in the present moment.

  Dani Shapiro

  Moments, Truth Is

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. September 1, 2013.

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• 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.

  Dani Shapiro

  Past, Wish, Want

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• A mind in the present moment is meditation.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Meditation, Mind, Moments

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• For the ego to survive, it must make time - past and future - more important than the present moment.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Past, Ego, Important

  Eckhart Tolle (2008). “Oneness With All Life: Inspirational Selections from A New Earth”, p.16, Penguin

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

  Eckhart Tolle

  Fullness Of Life, Life Is, Moments

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• In sitting on the meditation cushion and assuming the meditation posture, we connect ourselves with the present moment in this body and on this earth.

  Jack Kornfield

  Meditation, Sitting, Body

  Jack Kornfield (2008). “A Path With Heart: The Classic Guide Through The Perils And Promises Of Spiritual Life”, p.35, Random House

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• Strange how when you're young you have no memories...Then one day you wake up and BOOM, memories overpower all else in your life, forever making the present moment seem sad and unable to compete with a glorious past that now has a life of its own.

  Douglas Coupland

  Memories, Past, Forever

  Douglas Coupland (1996). “Polaroids from the Dead”, Harpercollins

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• There were times when I could not afford to sacrifice the bloom of the present moment to any work, whether of the head or hand. I love a broad margin to my life.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Sacrifice, Hands, Moments

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.175

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• We are continuously bombarded with information, appeals, deadlines, communications... We are continually being squeezed or projected into the future as our present moments are assaulted and consumed in the fires of endless urgency.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Communication, Fire, Information

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• I think all experience is, in some way, shape or form, filtered down to help you, in your present moment. With Shakespeare, you're trying to act with a fairly archaic language, although in certain aspects, it's deeply modern.

  Joseph Fiennes

  Thinking, Trying, Shapes

  "Joseph Fiennes, Tamsin Egerton & Exec. Producer Chris Chibnall Interview CAMELOT". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 1, 2011.

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• Mindfulness is a way of paying attention, on purpose and non-judgmentally, to what goes on in the present moment in your body, mind and the world around you.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Mind, Attention, Purpose

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• A true barometer of intelligence is an effective, happy life lived each day and each present moment of the day.

  Wayne Dyer

  Happy Life, Each Day, Moments

  Wayne W. Dyer (2009). “Your Erroneous Zones: Step-by-Step Advice for Escaping the Trap of Negative Thinking and Taking Control of Your Life”, p.17, Harper Collins

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