Present Moment Quotes - Page 28

• The present moment is ever the critical time. The future is merely for intelligent forethought.

  Robert Barr

  Intelligent, Moments, Forethought

  Robert Barr (2016). “The Triumphs of Eugene Valmont”, p.44, Oldcastle Books

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• Mind without agitation is meditation. Mind in the present moment is meditation. Mind that has no hesitation, no anticipation is meditation. Mind that has come back home, to the source, is meditation. Mind that becomes no mind is meditation.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Home, Meditation, Mind

  Ravi Shankar, Ravi Shankar (Sri Sri) (2005). “Wisdom for the New Millennium”

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• The present moment is our ain, The neist we never saw!

  William Julius Mickle

  Saws, Moments

  William Julius Mickle, Tobias George Smollett (1822). “The Poems of Mickle, and Smollett”, p.93

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• With regard to the duration of human life, there does not appear to have existed from the earliest ages of the world to the present moment the smallest permanent symptom or indication of increasing prolongation.

  Thomas Malthus

  Age, Doe, World

  Thomas Malthus (2015). “An Essay on the Principle of Population: Illustrated”, p.75, eKitap Projesi

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• I think the important thing to understand first and foremost about Michael Jackson is that he was the international emblem of the African American blues spiritual impulse that goes back through slavery - Jim Crow, Jane Crow, up to the present moment, through a Louis Armstrong, through a Ma Rainey, through a Bessie Smith, all the way to John Coltrane, Aretha Franklin and Nina Simone.

  Cornel West

  Spiritual, Thinking, African American

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• We might realize that the present moment may be one of an eternal or sempiternal series of moments, all of which will resemble it because, in some ways, they are the present, and won't in other ways, because the present will be the past by that time.

  John Ashbery

  Past, May, Might

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• Whatever is placed beyond the reach of sense and knowledge, whatever is imperfectly discerned, the fancy pieces out at its leisure; and all but the present moment, but the present spot, passion claims for its own, and brooding over it with wings outspread, stamps it with an image of itself. Passion is lord of infinite space, and distant objects please because they border on its confines and are moulded by its touch.

  William Hazlitt

  Passion, Wings, Space

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1283, Delphi Classics

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