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• There is a wise being living inside of you. It is your intuitive self. Focus your awareness into a deep place in your body, a place where your "gut feelings" reside. You can communicate with it by silently talking to it, making requests, or asking questions. Then relax, don't think too hard with your mind, and be open to receiving answers. They are usually very simple and relate to the present moment, not the past or the future, and they feel right.

  Shakti Gawain

  Wise, Thinking, Past

  Shakti Gawain (2010). “Reflections in the Light: Daily Thoughts and Affirmations”, p.12, New World Library

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• Time that is spent dwelling on the past will surely continue in your present moment - and the future.

  Michelle Cruz

  Past, Dwelling, Moments

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• If we keep this question in mind while planning our days, we will see that we actually have countless opportunities to add to our life force. Being around people and places we love and doing things that give us deep satisfaction, taking time to digest the events in our lives, being less busy, telling the truth, laughing a lot, eating right, exercising regularly, having long talks with those we love-these are among the best ways to nourish our vitality. Our life force thrives when we are completely engaged in the present moment.

  Debbie Ford

  Exercise, Power, Opportunity

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• Instead of bracing yourself for the perils of the unknown, embrace the joy that is here, in your present moment.

  Michelle Cruz

  Joy, Moments, Embrace

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• When effort is needed, effort will appear. When effortlessness becomes essential, it will assert itself. You need not push life about. Just flow with it and give yourself completely to the task of the present moment.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Life, Giving, Effort

  "I am That". Book by Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, p.140, 1973.

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• The only moment ever available to you is the present moment. Everything else is memory or imagination.

  Leonard Jacobson

  Memories, Imagination, Moments

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• Trend following is an exercise in observing and responding to the ever-present moment of now

  Ed Seykota

  Exercise, Trends, Moments

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• The most intriguing thing about the present moment is that it never grows old.

  Deepak Chopra

  Intriguing, Moments, Grows

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• If we do not find happiness in the present moment, in what shall we find it?

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Happiness, Moments, Ifs

  Oliver Goldsmith, David Masson (1869). “The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith”, p.157

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• In 'The Plato Papers' I wanted to get another perspective on the present moment by extrapolating into the distant future. So in that sense, there's a definite similarity of purpose between a book set in the future and a book set in the past.

  Peter Ackroyd

  Plato, Book, Past

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• If you could travel back in time to the present moment, what would you do differently?

  Robert Breault

  Carpe Diem, Moments, Back In Time

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• The present moment is changing so fast that we often do not notice its existence at all. Every moment of mind is like a series of pictures passing through a projector. Some of the pictures come from sense impressions. Others come from memories of past experiences or from fantasies of the future.

  Henepola Gunaratana

  Memories, Past, Mind

  Henepola Gunaratana (2011). “Eight Mindful Steps to Happiness: Walking the Buddha's Path”, p.194, Simon and Schuster

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• In eternity there is indeed something true and sublime. But all these times and places and occasions are now and here. God himself culminates in the present moment and will never be more divine in the lapse of the ages. Time is but a stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it, but when I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away but eternity remains.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Time, Fishing, Sublime

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• It is not the multitude of hard duties, it is not the constraint and contention that advance us in our Christian course. On the contrary, it is the yielding of our wills without restriction and without choice to tread cheerfully every day in the path in which Providence leads us. It is to seek nothing, to be discouraged by nothing, to see our duty in the present moment, and to trust all else without reserve to the will and power of God.

  Francois Fenelon

  Christian, Choices, Path

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• You can be very much aware that when you are stressed, it always is a sign you have lost the present moment. So, you can choose to re-enter the present moment.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Stressed, Moments, Lost

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• Accept the present moment without judgement.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Attitude, Judgement, Moments

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• A life without regret can be attained by full awareness of one's actions in their present moment.

  Michelle Cruz

  Regret, Action, Moments

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• When my mother left me waiting for her, [she] established in me the habit of waiting and expectation which makes any present moment most significant for what it does not contain.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Mother, Expectations, Waiting

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• The present moment is never intolerable. It is always what is coming in five minutes or five days that makes people despair. The Law of Life is to live in the present, and this applies to both time and place. Keep your attention to the present moment, and in the place where your body is now. Do a fair day's work, and then stop. Overwork is not productive in the long run.

  Emmet Fox

  Running, Law, Long

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• When you live in the present moment, time stands still. Accept your circumstances and live them. If there is an experience ahead of you, have it! But if worries stand in your way, put them off until tomorrow. Give yourself a day off from worry. You deserve it. Some people live with a low-grade anxiety tugging at their spirit all day long. They go to sleep with it, wake up with it, carry it around at home, in town, to church, and with friends. Here's a remedy: Take the present moment and find something to laugh at. People who laugh, last.

  Barbara Johnson

  Sleep, Home, Giving

  Patsy Clairmont, Marilyn Meberg, Barbara Johnson, Luci Swindoll (1997). “Joy Breaks: 90 Devotions to Celebrate, Simplify, and Add Laughter to Your Life”, Zondervan Publishing Company

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• You spend very little time in the present moment. Reality exists only in the present moment. Therefore you spend very little time in reality.

  Leonard Jacobson

  Reality, Littles, Moments

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• What we are talking about is learning to live in the present moment, in the now. When you aren't distracted by your own negative thinking, when you don't allow yourself to get lost in moments that are gone or yet to come, you are left with this moment. This moment-now-truly is the only moment you have. It is beautiful and special. Life is simply a series of such moments to be experienced one right after another. If you attend to the moment you are in and stay connected to your soul and remain happy, you will find that your heart is filled with positive feelings.

  Sydney Banks

  Beautiful, Heart, Thinking

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• Become intensely conscious of the present moment.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Moments, Conscious

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.20, New World Library

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• The animal lacks both anxiety and hope because its consciousness is restricted to what is clearly evident and thus to the present moment: the animal is the present incarnate.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Animal, Anxiety, Consciousness

  "On the Suffering of the World". As translated in "Essays and Aphorisms" by R. J. Hollingdale, 1970.

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• The actual experience of awakening can only be in the present moment.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Awakening, Moments

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