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• When the mind is full of memories and preoccupied by the future, it misses the freshness of the present moment. In this way, we fail to recognize the luminous simplicity of mind that is always present behind the veils of thought.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Memories, Buddhism, Simplicity

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• this present moment never comes to be and it never ceases to be, it is simply our minds that construct the continuity of thoughts we call time. In the present moment is nirvana.

  Alan Watts

  Time, Mind, Moments

  Alan Watts (2010). “What Is Zen?”, p.56, New World Library

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• Eating mindfully is a most important practice of meditation. We can eat in a way that we restore the cookie of our childhood. The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.

  Nhat Hanh

  Practice, Joy, Childhood

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• If you are truly present and know how to take care of the present moment as best you can, you are doing your best for the future already.

  Nhat Hanh

  Future, Care, Moments

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2012). “Fear: Essential Wisdom for Getting Through the Storm”, p.10, Harper Collins

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• Asking ourselves, 'Where am I right now?' gives us a chance to step outside the internal dialogue for a moment of peace. Look around you, take a deep breath and notice what you see, hear and feel. Present moment awareness is the point of power and choice. It frees us from our compulsive thoughts.

  Laura Harvey

  Letting Go, Past, Giving

  "Letting Go: How to Release the Past" by Laura Harvey, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 26, 2011.

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• The best way to take care of the future is to take care of the present moment.

  Nhat Hanh

  Future, Care, Way

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Understanding Our Mind”, p.230, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Do not encumber your mind with useless thoughts. What good does it do to brood on the past or anticipate the future? Remain in the simplicity of the present moment.

  Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

  Wisdom, Buddhism, Past

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• Come back to square one, just the minimum bare bones. Relaxing with the present moment, relaxing with hopelessness, relaxing with death, not resisting the fact that things end, that things pass, that things have no lasting substance, that everything is changing all the time-that is the basic message.

  Pema Chodron

  Buddhism, Squares, Suffering

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• Remember that even if you were to live for three thousand years, or thirty thousand, you could not lose any other life than the one you have, and there will be no other life after it. So the longest and the shortest lives are the same. The present moment is shared by all living creatures, but the time that is past is gone forever. No one can lose the past or the future, for if they don't belong to you, how can they be taken from you?

  Marcus Aurelius

  Life, Taken, Past

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• When we let go of our battles and open our hearts to things as they are, then we come to rest in the present moment. This is the beginning and the end of spiritual practice.

  Jack Kornfield

  Letting Go, Spiritual, Heart

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• Anyone who stands on the edge of the unknown, fully in the present without reference point, experiences groundlessness. That's when our understanding goes deeper, when we find that the present moment is a pretty vulnerable place and that this can be completely unnerving and completely tender at the same time.

  Pema Chodron

  Understanding, Vulnerable, Moments

  Pema Chodron (2003). “Comfortable with Uncertainty: 108 Teachings on Cultivating Fearlessness and Compassion”, p.91, Shambhala Publications

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• We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time, in which the so-called present moment is felt as nothing but an infinitesimal hairline between a causative past and an absorbingly important future. We have no present. Our consciousness is almost completely preoccupied with memory and expectation. We do not realize that there never was, is, nor will be any other experience than present experience. We are therefore out of touch with reality.

  Alan Watts

  Memories, Past, Reality

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• As you awaken, the present moment becomes your home. You still play in the world of time, but you're not identified with the story unfolding there.

  Leonard Jacobson

  Home, Play, Stories

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• In the present moment, we are all innocent. Wake up!

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Wake Up, Moments, Innocent

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• Once you uncover the history of this pattern and trace its roots, you will see that your reaction in the present moment is really a reaction from the past, a shadow character's attempt to protect you from reexperiencing an old emotional wound, which instead sabotages you in the present.

  Connie Zweig

  Character, Past, Emotional

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• I have never been able, really, to regret anything in all my life. I have always been far much too absorbed in the present moment or the immediate future to think back.

  Albert Camus

  Life, Regret, Thinking

  Albert Camus (1960). “Collected fiction”

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• There is nothing that you can do to change the present moment. It simply is. You may be able to change the situation one second, one minute, one hour, or one day from now, but there's absolutely nothing you can do to change the way things are right here and now. By not getting irritated you will be more effective in doing what needs to be done to change the situation for the next moment.

  Ken Keyes Jr.

  One Day, Needs, Done

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• Life is suffering. We have desires and expectations and egos, and we compare the reality we have, which is miraculous and wondrous, with this reality we desire. That somehow distances us from actually taking part fully with the reality we do have, and that creates suffering. For me, the thing that I love is that it's all about the present moment.

  Alan Ball

  Distance, Reality, Love Is

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• Whatever is arising in this moment, whatever condition, is part of the isness of life and therefore accepting it fully makes you an expression of the enormous power of life itself-true intelligence, which only comes when you stop obstructing the power of the present moment.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Expression, Moments, Accepting

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• No matter what situation we find ourselves in, we can always set our compass to our highest intentions in the present moment

  Jack Kornfield

  Matter, Compass, Moments

  Jack Kornfield (2014). “A Lamp in the Darkness: Illuminating the Path Through Difficult Times”, p.59, Sounds True

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• One of the things I love about yoga is that it brings you into the present moment. You aren't worried about what will happen tomorrow and you aren't thinking about what happened yesterday. It's about opening your heart and living from your heart.

  Michael Franti

  Yoga, Heart, Thinking

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The present moment is the pivotal point of power.

  Debbie Ford

  Moments, Pivotal

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• Everything flows with much greater ease when people live as one with the present moment.

  Eckhart Tolle

  People, Ease, Flow

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• When you go deeply into the present, gratitude arises spontaneously, even if it's just gratitude for breathing, gratitude for the aliveness that you feel in your body. Gratitude is there when you acknowledge the aliveness of the present moment.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Gratitude, Breathing, Body

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• I would say what makes me vulnerable is when I allow my mind to spiral. You know? When I start not being in the present moment and I start skipping ahead and picturing my daughter driving on the freeway on a late saturday night.

  Lauren Bowles

  Daughter, Night, Mind

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