Here And Now Quotes - Page 13

• To live in the present, we must deeply believe that what is most important is in the here and now.

  Henri Nouwen

  Believe, Important, Live In The Present

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• You can live in heaven right now. Heaven or hell is here and now; you don't need to wait to die. If you take responsibility for your own life, for your own actions, then your future is in your hands, and you can live in heaven while your body is alive.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Responsibility, Hands, Waiting

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• This world is so wonderful, so Unthinkable and Ungraspable.
  What are we touching right here and now?

  Soen Nakagawa

  Touching, World, Wonderful

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• The future has become uninhabitable. Such hopelessness can arise, I think, only from an inability to face the present, to live in the present, to live as a responsible being among other beings in this sacred world here and now, which is all we have, and all we need, to found our hope upon.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Future, Thinking, Sacred

  Ursula K. Le Guin (1997). “Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places”, p.103, Grove Press

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• That is the basic pattern of this kind of meditation, which is based on three fundamental factors: first, not centralizing inward; second, not having any longing to become higher; and third, becoming completely identified with here and now.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Meditation, Three, Inward

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• It is not possible to be honest in the here and now when you continue to discount and minimize your childhood experiences.

  Claudia Black

  Childhood, Honest, Authenticity

  Claudia Black (2009). “Changing Course: Healing from Loss, Abandonment, and Fear”, p.47, Hazelden Publishing

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• The message is that ultimate meaning is to be found in this present moment, infusing our everyday lives, here and now.

  James H. Austin

  Everyday, Messages, Moments

  James H. Austin (1999). “Zen and the Brain: Toward an Understanding of Meditation and Consciousness”, p.19, MIT Press

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• Our life is whatever we are encountering right now, and our practice is shikantaza, which is literally 'just sitting.' More broadly it means to put our energy into settling everything in our world here and now, where we really live.

  Kosho Uchiyama

  Mean, Our World, Practice

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• Let me state here and now that the black woman in America can justly be described as a 'slave of a slave.

  Frances M. Beal

  America, Black, Slave

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• Zen is not “attained” by mirror-wiping mediation, but by “self-forgetfulness in the existential 'present' of life here and now.” We do not “come”, we “are.” Don't strive to become, but be.

  Bruce Lee

  Mirrors, Self, Existential

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• Rebuilding us. Isn't that what the spirit requires, when we climb over the wreckage of our lives, sometimes, we go on to make our lives our own affirmation? We are perfect expressions of perfect Love, here and now. There is no permanent injury.

  Richard Bach

  Expression, Perfect, Rebuilding

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• Time is an illusion. Time only exists when we think about the past and the future. Time doesn't exist in the present here and now.

  Marina Abramovic

  Past, Thinking, Illusion

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• Suddenly the intermedia shows are all over town..Theirs remains the most dramatic expression of the contemporary generation. The place where its needs and desperations are most dramatically split open. At the Plastic Inevitable it is All Here and Now and the Future.

  Jonas Mekas

  Expression, Needs, Generations

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• There is a choice before us as people who live in a great world, so knit together that even America cannot stand quite outside it, or act as though it were situated somewhere on the moon! That choice is a choice - let me put it quite brutally - between heaven and hell. ... But it is not a choice between a heaven or a hell beyond the grave; it is a choice between making heaven or making hell on this side of the grave, and in this world, here and now.

  Maude Royden

  Moon, America, People

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• What we become as our lives evolve depends on the quality of our experiences here and now.

  Ken Robinson

  Quality, Evolve, Our Lives

  Ken Robinson (2011). “Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative”, p.51, John Wiley & Sons

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• A positive attitude goes a long way.  Focus your energy on the here and now, and see how a happier you shines through.

  Jamie Eason

  Attitude, Long, Focus

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• Tantric Zen leads to illumination and fun right here and now, which is why I like it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Fun, Buddhism, Illumination

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• I am living here and now. The blessing of my life is that I am totally concentrating on the present moment. And I want to be because there is nothing but the present moment.

  Paulo Coelho

  Blessing, Want, Life Is

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• ... there is no point in being realistic about here and now, no use at all not any, and so it is not the nineteenth but the twentieth century, there is no realism now, life is not real it is not earnest, it is strange which is an entirely different matter.

  Gertrude Stein

  Real, Different, Use

  Gertrude Stein (2013). “Wars I Have Seen”, p.52, Random House

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• Never let success hide its emptiness from you, achievement its nothingness, toil its desolation. And so...keep alive the incentive to push on further, that pain in the soul which drives us beyond ourselves...Do not look back. And do not dream about the future, either. It will neither give you back the past, nor satisfy your other daydreams. Your duty, your reward - your destiny - are here and now.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Dream, Pain, Past

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• Humans need justice in the here and now and grace in the thereafter. Justice in the here and now is possible only without freedom,and grace in the thereafter only through the freedom of God.

  Friedrich Durrenmatt

  Freedom, Justice, Grace

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• There are many, many discrepant views within the Shia theology about what's the proper role of religion in society or in the State, should it rule now, should it claim to govern people in the here and now, or should it wait until the Messiah, the 12th Imam, comes back and would it only be then appropriate for religious rule to bring about a world of universal justice and vindication.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Religious, Views, People

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• All inquiry into antiquity, all curiosity respecting the Pyramids, the excavated cities, Stonehenge, the Ohio Circles, Mexico, Memphis,--is the desire to do away this wild, savage, and preposterous There and Then, and introduce in its place the Here and Now.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Ohio, Cities, Circles

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2006). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected Essays, Lectures and Poems”, p.133, Bantam Classics

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• For man, the vast marvel is to be alive. For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive. Whatever the unborn may know, they cannot know the beauty, the marvel of being alive in the flesh. The dead may look after the afterwards. But the magnificent here and now of life in the flesh is ours, and ours alone, and ours only for a time.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Life, Flower, Men

  D.H. Lawrence (1974). “Apocalypse”

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• Each time you take a mindful step you are back in the arms of Mother Earth and are reminded of your true sweet home in the here and now.

  Nhat Hanh

  Mother, Sweet, Home

  Thich Nhat Hanh, Nguyen Anh-Huong (2006). “Walking Meditation”, p.14, Sounds True

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