Present Moment Quotes - Page 11

• Most of the people who come into slavery today, the people who enter into slavery for the first time in the present moment, are not captured, they're not knocked over the head, it doesn't follow the old sorts of mechanisms.

  Kevin Bales

  Slavery Today, People, Firsts

  Source: bigthink.com

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• What I get on a yoga mat, and from a yoga teacher, has been more beneficial onstage than any other workshop I've ever done. And it starts with that breath; it starts with getting out of my head and really just slowing the system down and being in a true present moment with each and every breath. That then allows me to be a more balanced and focused individual onstage.

  Jason Mraz

  Teacher, Yoga, Done

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• What does God do all day long? He gives birth. From the beginning of eternity, God lies on a maternity bed giving birth to all. God is creating this whole universe full and entire in this present moment.

  Meister Eckhart

  Lying, Creating, Long

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• Time is the horizontal dimension of life, the surface layer of reality. Then there is the vertical dimension of depth, accessible only through the portal of the present moment.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Reality, Depth, Layers

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.157, Penguin

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• Don't wait to be successful at some future point, have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Successful, Waiting, Moments

  "Thriving in the Now with Arianna Huffington and Eckhart Tolle" by Suza Scalora, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 22, 2014.

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• One learns the art of dying by learning the art of living: how to become master of the present moment.

  S. N. Goenka

  Art, Dying, Moments

  S. N. Goenka (2012). “Discourse Summaries”, Pariyatti Publishing

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• Celebration is not because some desire is fulfilled - because no desire is ever fulfilled. Desire as such cannot be fulfilled. Desire is only a way to avoid the present moment. Desire creates the future and takes you far away. Desire is a drug; it keeps you stoned, it does not allow you to see the reality - that which is herenow.

  Rajneesh

  Reality, Drug, Desire

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• The criteria for success: you are free, you live in the present moment, you are useful to the people around you, and you feel love for all humanity.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  People, Humanity, Moments

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• Meditation is really quite simple. All we have to do is embrace each experience with awareness and open our hearts fully to the present moment. When we are completely at ease with our own being, the ripples of awareness naturally spread out in all directions, touching the lives of everyone we meet.

  Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

  Heart, Simple, Meditation

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• Be alert and present and see that your identity is not from your past story; who you truly are is the alert presence that is inseparable from the present moment. You are this, which has no name and no form.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Past, Names, Identity

  FaceBook post by Eckhart Tolle from Jun 02, 2011

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• I don't like to say, Oh, this is my favorite record because there was a moment that that record made me feel a certain way. The one on the radio at the present moment could be the one that's most inspiring, because it's at that second that you're aware of "the infinite everything."

  Russell Simmons

  Way, Records, Radio

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• The present moment is really all that we have. The only place you can really love another person is in the present. Love in the past is a memory. Love in the future is a fantasy. To be really alive, love - or any other experience - must take place in the present.

  Jack Kornfield

  Memories, Past, Alive

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• If you choose to see everything as a miracle, then where you are right now is perfect. There is nowhere to run to; there is nothing else to do except be in this moment and allow what is to be. From that place of radical acceptance, major change can happen. The first step in any transformational experience is acceptance and surrender to the present moment, the way that it is. From that place we have the awareness, humility and power to change what is.

  Mastin Kipp

  Inspiring, Running, Yoga

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• Your primary purpose is to be here fully, and to be total in whatever you do so that the preciousness of the present moment does not become reduced to a means to an end. And there you have your life purpose. That's the very foundation of your life.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Mean, Foundation, Doe

  FaceBook post by Eckhart Tolle from May 15, 2010

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• So commit! Commit yourself to pushing through the fear and becoming more than you are at the present moment. The you that could be is absolutely colossal.

  Susan Jeffers

  Pushing Through, Becoming, Moments

  Susan Jeffers (2014). “Feel The Fear And Do It Anyway”, p.245, Random House

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• Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to struggle to attain.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Women, Struggle, Aggravation

  Mary Wollstonecraft, Philip Barnard, Stephen Shapiro (2013). “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: Abridged with Related Texts”, p.33, Hackett Publishing

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• Connecting to the feelings in your body brings you back into present-moment awareness.

  Deepak Chopra

  Feelings, Body, Moments

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• A man never is happy, but spends his whole life in striving after something which he thinks will make him so; he seldom attains his goal, and when he does, it is only to be disappointed; he is mostly shipwrecked in the end, and comes into harbor with mast and rigging gone. And then, it is all one whether he has been happy or miserable; for his life was never anything more than a present moment always vanishing; and now it is over.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Men, Thinking, Goal

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2014). “Suffering, Suicide and Immortality: Eight Essays from The Parerga”, p.21, Courier Corporation

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• Present-moment awareness creates a gap not only in the stream of mind but also in the past-future continuum. Nothing truly new and creative can come into this world except through that gap, that clear space of infinite possibility.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Past, Space, Creative

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.227, New World Library

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• The future does not exist, because nobody has ever experienced it. You can only ever experience a present moment.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Doe, Moments

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• Trees have a curious relationship to the subject of the present moment. There are many created things in the universe that outlive us, that outlive the sun, even, but I can't think about them. I live with trees.

  Annie Dillard

  Thinking, Tree, Sun

  Annie Dillard (2011). “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek”, p.88, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• Laughter is a symptom of spirituality. Laughter is the flow of love coursing through your body. Laughter is the nectar of present moment awareness. Invite more laughter into your life and relish the magic in every moment.

  David Simon

  Laughter, Magic, Body

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• To the ego, the present moment hardly exists. Only past and future are considered important.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Past, Ego, Important

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.22, New World Library

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• All that we are looking for in life - all the happiness, contentment, and peace of mind - is right here in the present moment.

  Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

  Mind, Contentment, Moments

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• The essence of saintliness is total acceptance of the present moment,
  harmony with things as they happen.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Acceptance, Essence, Moments

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