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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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• 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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• The only time that any of us have to grow or change or feel or learn anything is in the present moment. But we're continually missing our present moments, almost willfully, by not paying attention.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Missing, Mindfulness, Attention

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• We who run in the way of Love must never torment ourselves about anything. If I did not suffer minute by minute, it would be impossible for me to be patient; but I see only the present moment, I forget the past, and take good care not to anticipate the future. If we grow disheartened, if sometimes we despair, it is because we have been dwelling on the past or the future.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Love, Running, Past

  St. Therese of Lisieux (1915). “Thoughts of Saint Thérèse”, p.55, TAN Books

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• If I would expect better spiritual conditions to serve, I would not have started until the present moment.

  Chico Xavier

  Spiritual, Moments, Conditions

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• There is an irresistible demand to strengthen the leadership of the constructive forces of the world at the present momentous time. This is true because of stupendous, almost unbelievable changes which have taken place in recent years on every continent.

  John Mott

  Leadership, Taken, Years

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• Once you have made peace with the present moment, see what happens, what you can do or choose to do, or rather what life does through you. There are three words that convey the secret of the art of living, the secret of all success and happiness: One With Life. Being one with life is being one with Now. You then realize that you don't live your life, but life lives you. Life is the dancer, and you are the dance.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Art, Peace, Dancer

  "A New Earth". Book by Eckhart Tolle, October 6, 2005.

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• Because if the manifestations that happen in the present moment are beautiful and good, their continuation in the future will be also good and beautiful.

  Nhat Hanh

  Beauty, Beautiful, Moments

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• That which the sciences can add to the privileges of the human race has never been more marked than at the present moment. ... The air seems to become as accessible to him as the waters.... The name of Montgolfier, the names of those hardy navigators of the new element, will live through time; but who among us, on seeing these superb experiments, has not felt his soul elevated, his ideas expanded, his mind enlarged?

  Jean Sylvain Bailly

  Science, Race, Air

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• Let anyone try, I will not say to arrest, but to notice or to attend to, the present moment of time. One of the most baffling experiences occurs. Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.

  William James

  Trying, Gone, Becoming

  William James (2012). “Psychology: The Briefer Course”, p.147, Courier Corporation

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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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• The traditional paradigm of parenting has been very hierarchical, the parent knows best and very top down. Conscious parenting topples [this paradigm] on its head and creates this mutuality, this circularity where both parent and child serve each other and where in fact, perhaps, the child could be even more of a guru for the parent .... teaching the parent how the parent needs to grow, teaching the parent how to enter the present moment like only children know how to do.

  Shefali Tsabary

  Children, Teaching, Top Down

  Source: www.chicagonow.com

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• 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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• 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 foundation of greatness is honoring the small things of the present moment, instead of pursuing the idea of greatness.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Greatness, Ideas

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.197, Penguin

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• If you love getting gifts - and who doesn't - then why not accept, with gratitude, the greatest gift there is: the present moment.

  Guy Finley

  Gratitude, Why Not, Moments

  FaceBook post by Guy Finley from Dec 20, 2013

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• If you move in the present moment, the whole eternity is in your hands.

  Rajneesh

  Moving, Hands, Moments

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• The best way to say, "I love you, God," is to live your life doing your best. The best way to say, "Thank you, God," is by letting go of the past and living in the present moment, right here and now.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Letting Go, Love You, Past

  "The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom (A Toltec Wisdom Book)". Book by Miguel Angel Ruiz, 1997.

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• Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of the present experience. It isn't more complicated that that. It is opening to or recieving the present moment, pleasant or unpleasant, just as it is, without either clinging to it or rejecting it.

  Sylvia Boorstein

  Buddhist, Acceptance, Mindfulness

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• The issue here is this, that the Government's argument at the present moment is the argument that now the war is over, terrorism is defeated, we have to focus on economic development which in the north and east particular, being the areas where the war was fought, development has to proceed at a pace. That people from those parts of the country are leaving seems to suggest a lack of confidence and certainty in the trajectory of this kind of economic development.

  Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu

  Country, War, Government

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• Everything is worship if your mind is focused on the present moment.

  Paulo Coelho

  Mind, Worship, Moments

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• To live in the present moment is a miracle.

  Nhat Hanh

  Miracle, Moments, Live In The Present

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2005). “Touching Peace: Practicing the Art of Mindful Living”, p.1, Parallax Press

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