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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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• 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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• Has it ever struck you ... that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going? It’s really all memory ... except for each passing moment.

  Eric Kandel

  Inspirational, Life, Time

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• No particular music makes me feel nostalgic. If it's great, it just keeps me in the present moment. That level of music is like a classic story, like the Iliad-something so perfect it can never be old.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Music, Perfect, Stories

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• Our appointment with life is in the present moment. If we do not have peace and joy right now, when will we have peace and joy?

  Nhat Hanh

  Joy, Life Is, Moments

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• Stressful energy arises when you think some future moment is more important than the present moment, and the doing becomes only a means to an end.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Mean, Thinking, Important

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• God is always coming to you in the Sacrament of the Present Moment. Meet and receive Him there with gratitude in that sacrament.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Gratitude, Moments, Sacraments

  Evelyn Underhill (1960). “The Mount of Purification”

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• When the basis for your actions is inner alignment with the present moment, your actions become empowered by the intelligence of life itself.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Action, Moments, Empowered

  Eckhart Tolle (2008). “Oneness With All Life: Inspirational Selections from A New Earth”, p.14, Penguin

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• The conjunction of effort, concentration and balance in asana forces us to live intensely in the present moment, a rare experience in modern life.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Effort, Balance, Modern Life

  B. K. S. Iyengar (2012). “Light on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali”, p.32, HarperCollins UK

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• There were times when I could not afford to sacrifice the bloom of the present moment to any work, whether of the head or hand. I love a broad margin to my life.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Sacrifice, Hands, Moments

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.175

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• We are continuously bombarded with information, appeals, deadlines, communications... We are continually being squeezed or projected into the future as our present moments are assaulted and consumed in the fires of endless urgency.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Communication, Fire, Information

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• I think all experience is, in some way, shape or form, filtered down to help you, in your present moment. With Shakespeare, you're trying to act with a fairly archaic language, although in certain aspects, it's deeply modern.

  Joseph Fiennes

  Thinking, Trying, Shapes

  "Joseph Fiennes, Tamsin Egerton & Exec. Producer Chris Chibnall Interview CAMELOT". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 1, 2011.

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• Mindfulness is a way of paying attention, on purpose and non-judgmentally, to what goes on in the present moment in your body, mind and the world around you.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Mind, Attention, Purpose

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• A true barometer of intelligence is an effective, happy life lived each day and each present moment of the day.

  Wayne Dyer

  Happy Life, Each Day, Moments

  Wayne W. Dyer (2009). “Your Erroneous Zones: Step-by-Step Advice for Escaping the Trap of Negative Thinking and Taking Control of Your Life”, p.17, Harper Collins

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• The great arises out of small things that are honored and cared for. Everybody's life really consists of small things. Greatness is a mental abstraction and a favorite fantasy of the ego. The paradox is that the foundation for greatness is the honoring of small things of the present moment instead of pursuing the idea of greatness.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Greatness, Ideas, Ego

  Eckhart Tolle (2009). “A New Earth: Create a Better Life”, p.187, Penguin UK

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• The real honesty is a responsibility to the present moment. It needs tremendous awareness. You have to be honest to the present moment, not to the past, not to the future.

  Rajneesh

  Honesty, Real, Responsibility

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• I don't want to lean back into the past, or forward into the future. I don't want to wish the present moment away.

  Dani Shapiro

  Past, Wish, Want

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• The truth is in the present moment.

  Dani Shapiro

  Moments, Truth Is

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. September 1, 2013.

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• I do think that the sense of being opposed to the present moment, that sense of the rub of history, invigorates the writing I find most exciting, and maybe precisely in being equally allegiant to an inward fineness of sensibility and an outward-facing rigor of protest or critique.

  Garth Greenwell

  Writing, Thinking, Inward

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• You simply have to surrender to the present moment. Be alert. Watch something in a state of alertness. Always, continuously, bring that into everyday life, not spirituality here and getting on with your life there.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Everyday, Alertness, Watches

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• You accept whatever happens in the present moment, the only place where it can happen. Internally, you fully accept what is happening, and what is happening may include an emotion, a stream of anxiety that suddenly comes up within you.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Anxiety, May, Emotion

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• The present moment is all you ever have. There is never a time when your life is not 'this moment.' Is this not a fact?

  Eckhart Tolle

  Facts, Life Is, Moments

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.58, New World Library

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• In order to reveal the gifts that lie beneath the surface of your heart’s greatest desires, you must look beyond your years here on earth, reconnect with the Divine, and bring forth your soul’s legacy into the present moment.

  Debbie Ford

  Lying, Heart, Order

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• Consciousness is observing your thoughts and actions so that you can live from true choice in the present moment rather than being run by programming from the past.

  T. Harv Eker

  Running, Past, Choices

  FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from Oct 19, 2012

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• Except that it’s not really 'now' that the inner critic attacks. It’s a few seconds or a minute ago. The inner critic depends upon comparison, and when we are fully aware in the present moment, when there is no past or future in our mind’s awareness, there is nothing to compare. There is only what is, as it is. The inner critic disappears.

  Jan Chozen Bays

  Past, Mind, Moments

  Jan Chozen Bays (2009). “Mindful Eating: A Guide to Rediscovering a Healthy and Joyful Relationship with Food”, p.110, Shambhala Publications

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