Present Moment Quotes - Page 19

• 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

  Yoga, Practice, Mind

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• 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

  Giving Up, Reality, Will To Survive

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• I would tell people to enjoy the present moment and the journey rather than the outcome.

  Judith Hill

  Journey, People, Outcomes

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.judithhill.com. September 18, 2014.

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• Oh, if only the suffering soul knew how it is loved by God, it would die of joy and excess of happiness! Some day, we will know the value of suffering, but then we will no longer be able to suffer. The present moment is ours.

  Mary Faustina Kowalska

  Joy, Soul, Suffering

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• The issue here is this, that the Government's argument at the present moment is the argument that now the war is over, terrorism is defeated, we have to focus on economic development which in the north and east particular, being the areas where the war was fought, development has to proceed at a pace. That people from those parts of the country are leaving seems to suggest a lack of confidence and certainty in the trajectory of this kind of economic development.

  Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu

  Country, War, Government

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• The reality is there is only each present moment: You are called to give a talk. You get out of a building and into a car. You look out of the window. You arrive at the venue. You sit in the chair; you wait; you step out onto the stage. Every movement is simple. There is only that.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Simple, Reality, Giving

  "The Awakening of Eckhart Tolle". Interview with Paula Coppel, www.eckharttolle.com.

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• None of us sees history fully; none of us is adequately aware of how the arrangements of the present moment foreclose the possibilities of others to fully live their only lives.

  Garth Greenwell

  Moments, Possibility, Arrangements

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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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. 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

  Past, Wish, Want

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• The present moment is the only time that is eternal and the only time in which we can experience happiness.

  Deepak Chopra

  Moments, Only Time, Eternal

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• If we are not fully ourselves, truly in the present moment, we miss everything.

  Nhat Hanh

  Yoga, Missing, Moments

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• We human beings have enormous difficulty in focusing on the present; we always thinking about what we did, about how we could have done it better.... or else we think about the future, about what we're going to do.... But at this precise moment, you also realize that you can change your future by bringing the past into the present. Past and future only exist in our mind. The present moment, though, is outside of time, it's Eternity.... It isn't what you did in the past the will affect the present. It's what you do in the present that will redeem the past and thereby change the future.

  Paulo Coelho

  Past, Thinking, Mind

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• And, as you know, the present moment is where ALL your power is. A reminder I need regularly. Maybe you too.

  Christiane Northrup

  Needs, Moments, Reminders

  FaceBook post by Dr. Christiane Northrup from Aug 16, 2010

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• There are certain ways in which I cultivate awareness, both through mindful yoga and taking care of my body and taking time to actually drop as deeply as possible into stillness, into whatever is unfolding in the present moment.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Yoga, Body, Care

  "Jon Kabat-Zinn on Living Mindfuly". Interview with Elisha Goldstein, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 30, 2010.

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• Become friendly with the present moment, because if you do not become friendly with the present moment you cannot become friendly with life.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Friendly, Moments, Ifs

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• To live in the present moment is a miracle.

  Nhat Hanh

  Miracle, Moments, Live In The Present

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2005). “Touching Peace: Practicing the Art of Mindful Living”, p.1, Parallax Press

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• If you love getting gifts - and who doesn't - then why not accept, with gratitude, the greatest gift there is: the present moment.

  Guy Finley

  Gratitude, Why Not, Moments

  FaceBook post by Guy Finley from Dec 20, 2013

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• If you move in the present moment, the whole eternity is in your hands.

  Rajneesh

  Moving, Hands, Moments

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• The best way to say, "I love you, God," is to live your life doing your best. The best way to say, "Thank you, God," is by letting go of the past and living in the present moment, right here and now.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Letting Go, Love You, Past

  "The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom (A Toltec Wisdom Book)". Book by Miguel Angel Ruiz, 1997.

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• Everything is worship if your mind is focused on the present moment.

  Paulo Coelho

  Mind, Worship, Moments

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• All the happiness and fulfillment that humans yearn for exists in the present moment.

  Deepak Chopra

  Moments, Fulfillment, Humans

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• ...there are at the present moment many colored men in the Confederate Army...as real soldiers, having muskets on their shoulders, and bullets in their pockets, ready to shoot down loyal troops, and do all that soldiers may do to destroy the Federal government...There were such soldiers at Manassas and they are probably there still.

  Frederick Douglass

  Real, War, Army

  Frederick Douglass (1952). “The Life and Writings of Frederick Douglass: The Civil War, 1861-1865”

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• 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

  Inspirational, Beauty, Running

  Scott Jurek, Steve Friedman (2012). “Eat & Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness”, p.181, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Every instance since the beginning of time has been a coincidence: A leaf in a tree embodies the combined efforts of the earth, water, wind, stars, and sunshine. When you realize that everything has led to the present, to this moment, you see there's nothing to be afraid of, nothing to be burdened by. The present moment is the moment of arrival - and it took the entire universe to create it. All is as it should be.

  Deepak Chopra

  Stars, Sunshine, Wind

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• Focus on the present moment. Stay in the moment.

  Tony Horton

  Focus, Moments

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• Too-lateness, I realized, has nothing to do with age. It’s a relation of self to the moment. Or not, depending on the person and the moment. Perhaps there even comes a time when it’s no longer too late for anything. Perhaps, even, most times are too early for most things, and most of life has to go by before it’s time for almost anything and too late for almost nothing. Nothing to lose, the present moment to gain, the integration with long-delayed Now.

  Russell Hoban

  Self, Long, Age

  Russell Hoban (1999). “A Russell Hoban omnibus”, Indiana Univ Pr

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