Present Moment Quotes - Page 17

• Welcome the present moment as if you had invited it. It is all we ever have, so we night as well work with it rather than struggling against it. We might as well make it our friend and teacher rather than our enemy.

  Pema Chodron

  Inspirational, Friends, Teacher

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• Mountains are cathedrals: grand and pure, the houses of my religion. I go to them as humans go to worship...From their lofty summits, I view my past, dream of the future, and with unusual acuity I am allowed to experience the present moment. My strength renewed, my vision cleared, in the mountains I celebrate creation. On each journey I am reborn.

  Anatoli Boukreev

  Dream, Past, Journey

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• Acceptance is the magic that makes change possible. It is not forever, it is for the present moment

  Melody Beattie

  Acceptance, Forever, Magic

  Melody Beattie (2013). “Melody Beattie 4 Title Bundle: Codependent No More and 3 Other Best Sellers by Melody Beattie: A collection of four Melody Beattie best sellers”, p.314, Hazelden Publishing

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• Ask yourself: Is there joy, ease and lightness in what i'm doing? If there isn't then time is covering up the present moment, and life is perceived as a burden or a struggle.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Struggle, Joy, Covering

  "The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment". Book by Eckhart Tolle, 1997.

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• We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment deal only with the present moment.

  Chanakya

  Integrity, Past, Men

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• Creativity exists in the present moment. You can't find it anywhere else.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Creativity, Thinking, Moments

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• If you abandon the present moment, you cannot live the moments of your daily life deeply.

  Nhat Hanh

  Daily Life, Moments, Abandon

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• Usually, people have a tendency to be caught in the worries concerning the future or in the regret concerning the past. There is some kind of energy that is pushing them to run, and they are not able to establish themselves in the present moment.

  Nhat Hanh

  Running, Regret, Past

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• The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

  Samuel Johnson

  Mind, Breaking Away, Anticipation

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”, p.3

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• Children have a way of forcing you back into the present moment.

  Lorna Luft

  Children, Way, Moments

  Lorna Luft (2015). “Me and My Shadows: A Family Memoir”, p.392, Simon and Schuster

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• It's not life in the present moment that is intolerable; the pain we are avoiding has already happened. We are living in reverse.

  Geneen Roth

  Pain, Moments, Avoiding

  Geneen Roth (2011). “Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything”, p.44, Simon and Schuster

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• Because animals seem to dwell in the present moment,
  because their own presence is so instinctive,
  their attention so unwavering, the offer us
  a different kind of compassion than humans do.
  Anyone is lucky to have both human and
  animal comfort in their lives.

  Brenda Peterson

  Compassion, Animal, Comfort

  Brenda Peterson (2002). “Build Me an Ark: A Life with Animals”, p.159, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Meditation is meeting eternity in the present moment. It is resolving every problem as it comes. It is resolving every tension as it creeps in. It is facing the challenges of life in a non-fearful way.

  Vimala Thakar

  Practice, Meditation, Challenges

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• The mind, conditioned as it is by the past, always seeks to re-create what it knows and is familiar with. Even if it is painful, at least it is familiar. The mind always adheres to the known. The unknown is dangerous because it has no control over it. That's why the mind dislikes and ignores the present moment.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Past, Mind, Painful

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.227, New World Library

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• The past is an interpretation. The future is on illusion. The world does not move through time as if it were a straight line, proceeding from the past to the future. Instead, time moves through and within us, in endless spirals. Eternity does not mean infinite time, but simply timelessness. If you want to experience eternal illumination, put the past and the future out of your mind and remain within the present moment.

  Shams Tabrizi

  Moving, Mean, Past

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• 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

  Sight, Effort, Sound

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• If you ask why we meditate, I would say it's so we can become more flexible and tolerant to the present moment.

  Pema Chodron

  Moments, Flexible, Asks

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• 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

  Elude Us, Joy, Purpose

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• The present moment holds the key to liberation. But you cannot find the present moment as long as you are your mind.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Keys, Long, Mind

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.23, New World Library

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• Anything you're trying to will is focused on the future; it's always associated with some sort of anxiety that makes the present moment somewhat uncomfortable.

  Martha Beck

  Anxiety, Trying, Moments

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• When you are not honoring the present moment by allowing it to be, you are creating drama.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Drama, Creating, Moments

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.182, New World Library

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• Everything is unfolding based on causes and conditions. Our happiness or suffering is dependent on how we relate to the present moment. If we cling now, we suffer later. If we let go and respond with compassion or friendliness, we create happiness and well-being for the future.

  Noah Levine

  Letting Go, Compassion, Suffering

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• While you are meditating, if your mind wanders, gently bring it back to the present moment.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Mind, Moments, Wander

  "Practicing Loving Kindness In The Capital" by Matteo Pistono, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 12, 2011.

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• Let us take some event in the life of humanity. For instance, war. There is a war going on at the present moment. What does it signify? It signifies that several millions of sleeping people are trying to destroy several millions of other sleeping people. They would not do this, of course, if they were to wake up. Everything that takes place is owing to this sleep.

  G. I. Gurdjieff

  War, Sleep, People

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• The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly. There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.

  Gautama Buddha

  Happiness, Mistake, Past

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