Present Moment Quotes - Page 22

• And since the now is all there ever is in your life, your entire life unfolds as the present moment. People don't realize it, but all they ever have is "this". This moment.

  Eckhart Tolle

  People, Realizing, Moments

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• That is why those who are not capable of being there in the present moment, they don't really live their life - they live like dead people.

  Nhat Hanh

  People, Being There, Moments

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• One who lives in accordance with nature does not go against the way of things but moves in harmony with the present moment.

  Laozi

  Moving, Doe, Way

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• Americans often have trouble enjoying the present moment.

  Alan Dundes

  Trouble, Moments, Enjoy

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• It’s important to let go, calm down, and get grounded. We need to listen to ourselves. When one becomes aware that our present-moment thoughts are not productive, one should simply let them go. Change a negative thought to a positive one.

  Horst Rechelbacher

  Letting Go, Important, Negative

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• Fiction shows us the past as well as the present moment in mortal light; it is an art served by the indelibility of our memory, and one empowered by a sharp and prophetic awareness of what is ephemeral. It is by the ephemeral that our feeling is so strongly aroused for what endures.

  Eudora Welty

  Art, Memories, Writing

  Eudora Welty (2002). “On Writing”, Random House Digital, Inc.

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• Well, I believe you created those experiences over and over because they mirrored something you believed about yourself. It doesn't really matter how long we have had a problem, or how big it is, or how life-threatening it is. The Point of Power Is Always in the Present Moment.

  Louise Hay

  Believe, Long, Matter

  Louise L. Hay (1999). “You Can Heal Your Life Gift”, p.22, Hay House, Inc

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• I believe that earning your living doing something you enjoy is one of the very best ways to nourish yourself. But even if you are employed at something that is not your ideal work, it is important to find ways to take as much pleasure in it as possible. Living in the present moment can make ordinary activities more interesting and joyful; you may be surprised, if you only look, at what you will find. If you try to stay connected with why you are doing what you are doing, for example, then even the parts of your life that aren't especially interesting can become more meaningful.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Meaningful, Work, Believe

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• One of the sweet and expectable aspects of life afloat is the perpetual present moment one lives in and a perception that time is nothing more than the current, an eternal flowing back to the sea.

  William Least Heat-Moon

  Sweet, Sea, Perception

  William Least Heat-Moon (1999). “River-Horse: A Voyage Across America”, p.51, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A look filled with understanding, an accepting smile, a loving word, a meal shared in warmth and awareness are the things which create happiness in the present moment. By nourishing awareness in the present moment, you can avoid causing suffering to yourself and those around you. The way you look at others, your smile, and your small acts of caring can create happiness. True happiness does not depend on wealth or fame.

  Nhat Hanh

  Caring, Small Acts, Understanding

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2010). “Old Path White Clouds: Walking in the Footsteps of the Buddha”, p.299, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• If you want to experience eternal illumination, put the past and the future out of your mind and remain within the present moment.

  Elif Safak

  Past, Illumination, Mind

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• It is this research into pure painting that is the problem at the present moment. I do not know any painters in Paris who are really searching for this ideal world.

  Robert Delaunay

  Paris, Research, World

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• The present moment is creative, creating with an unheard-of intensity.

  Le Corbusier

  Creating, Creative, Moments

  Le Corbusier (1964). “When the cathedrals were white”

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• One of the things I like about performing on the stage is that it is a kind of meditative experience. Time does stand still. You have no concept or feeling of the passing of two or three hours' time. It's all kind of one present moment, which is a kind of a description of meditation.

  Michael Emerson

  Two, Meditation, Feelings

  "Actor Michael Emerson". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. May 16, 2012.

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• The present moment is a conspiracy of the total universe.
  To resist it is to resist the universe.
  Let go and flow.

  Deepak Chopra

  Letting Go, Flow, Resistance

  FaceBook post by Deepak Chopra from Apr 21, 2011

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• Remember that a man, a true man, never hates. His rages and his bad moods never last beyond the present moment-like electric shocks.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Hate, Men, Electric Shock

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• Feelings are only your history being occasioned by the present moment. If that's your enemy, then your history is your enemy. If sensations are your enemy, your body is your enemy. And if memory is your enemy, you'd better have a way of controlling your mind in such a way that you never are reminded of things that are painful from the past. If you avoid people, avoid having your buttons pushed, avoid going to places that might occasion anxiety; if you're hammering down drugs and alcohol; these are all methods of trying to mount that unhealthy agenda.

  Steven C. Hayes

  Memories, Past, People

  Source: bigthink.com

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• At the present moment two things about the Christian religion must surely be clear to anybody with eyes in his head. One is, that men cannot do without it; the other, that they cannot do with it as it is.

  Matthew Arnold

  Christian, Eye, Men

  Matthew Arnold (1875). “God & the Bible: A Review of Objections to 'Literature & Dogma'”, p.14

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• If you allow yourself to fully feel the life you're in - not conceptually, but viscerally in the present moment - then that is inherently meaningful.

  Roger Housden

  Meaningful, Moments, Feels

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Practice remembrance of the present moment, again and again.

  Roger Housden

  Practice, Remembrance, Moments

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• But the idea of science and systematic knowledge is wanting to our whole instruction alike, and not only to that of our business class ... In nothing do England and the Continent at the present moment more strikingly differ than in the prominence which is now given to the idea of science there, and the neglect in which this idea still lies here; a neglect so great that we hardly even know the use of the word science in its strict sense, and only employ it in a secondary and incorrect sense.

  Matthew Arnold

  Education, Lying, Science

  Matthew Arnold, George William Erskine Russell, Thomas Burnett Smart (1904). “The Works of Matthew Arnold”

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• Sometimes we believe that happiness is not possible in the here and now, that we need a few more conditions to be happy. So we run toward the future to get the conditions we think are missing. But by doing so we sacrifice the present moment; we sacrifice true life.

  Nhat Hanh

  Motivational, Running, Believe

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• One of the paradoxes that makes the internet such a suggestive place is that, on the one hand, we perceive it as perpetually in motion and changing, and, on the other hand, it has this god-like immortality to it: It seems like it won't die and is not subject to decay, and that everything can be unwound, unlike present-tense experience, where you can't archive the present moment, you can't go back and read it over again. That's the fundamental hallmark of the internet.

  Virginia Heffernan

  Internet, Moments, Immortality

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• The present moment is all we will ever have. Only the forms change. Someone living in the actual 1890s would have the same feelings of what's modern and what's old-fashioned that we do now and that people will have 100 years from now. The forms change but the feelings are the same.

  Mark Ryden

  People, Feelings, Moments

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I don't understand why a Mark Rothko painting - as much as I love Mark Rothko - has to cost $73 million. I mean, I think $14 million is a pretty reasonable sum of money for a good Rothko painting. What's disturbing about this present moment is that these prices have been so out of control.

  Philip Taaffe

  Mean, Thinking, Painting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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