Present Moment Quotes - Page 19

• The underlying motivation that drives all addiction is our insistence on avoiding pain. However, the pain you are avoiding is based in the past, and has nothing to do with the present moment.

  Leonard Jacobson

  Pain, Motivation, Past

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• Projecting into the future with hopes, dreams and desires can never fulfill you. Only the present moment can fulfill you.

  Leonard Jacobson

  Dream, Desire, Moments

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• Body awareness not only anchors you in the present moment, it is a doorway out of the prison that is the ego. It also strengthens the immune system and the body’s ability to heal itself.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Heal Itself, Anchors, Ego

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.44, Penguin

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• Nothing in the past is as powerful as what we choose to do in the present moment.

  Louise Hay

  Powerful, Past, Moments

  FaceBook post by Louise Hay from Oct 07, 2010

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• What kind of thoughts make you feel good? Thoughts of love, appreciation, gratitude, joyful childhood experiences? Thoughts in which you rejoice that you're alive and bless your body with love? Do you truly enjoy this present moment and get excited about tomorrow? Thinking these kinds of thoughts is an act of loving yourself, and loving yourself creates miracles in your life.

  Louise Hay

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Loving Yourself

  FaceBook post by Louise Hay from May 22, 2016

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• An amazing realization is in the present moment there is only what is, but there are no problems. And if your attention remains in the Now, you no longer inhabit a world of problems. Challenges you may still face, but they come to you in the space of Now.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Space, Challenges, Attention

  FaceBook post by Eckhart Tolle from Jun 01, 2010

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• Nowness is the essence of meditation. Whatever one does, whatever one tries to practice, is trying to see what is here and now. One becomes aware of the present moment through such means as concentrating on the breathing. This is based on developing the knowledge of nowness, for each respiration is unique. It is an expression of now.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Mean, Unique, Expression

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• Every instance since the beginning of time has been a coincidence: A leaf in a tree embodies the combined efforts of the earth, water, wind, stars, and sunshine. When you realize that everything has led to the present, to this moment, you see there's nothing to be afraid of, nothing to be burdened by. The present moment is the moment of arrival - and it took the entire universe to create it. All is as it should be.

  Deepak Chopra

  Stars, Sunshine, Wind

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• Just breathing and smiling can make us very happy, because when we breathe consciously we recover ourselves completely and encounter life in the present moment.

  Nhat Hanh

  Smile, Breathing, Encounters

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• One of the main discoveries of meditation is seeing how we continually run away from the present moment, how we avoid being here just as we are. That’s not considered to be a problem. The point is to see it.

  Pema Chodron

  Running, Discovery, Meditation

  Pema Chodron (2001). “The Wisdom of No Escape: And the Path of Loving Kindness”, p.3, Shambhala Publications

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• Just pausing for two to three breaths is a perfect way to stay present. This is a good use of our life. Indeed, it is an excellent, joyful use of our life. Instead of getting better and better at avoiding, we can learn to accept the present moment as if we had invited it, and work with it instead of against it, making it our ally rather than our enemy.

  Pema Chodron

  Two, Perfect, Enemy

  Pema Chodron (2009). “Taking the Leap: Freeing Ourselves from Old Habits and Fears”, p.50, Shambhala Publications

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• My wife and I have chosen to bring up our children as vegetarians. In another time or place, we might have made a different decision. But the realities of our present moment compelled us to
  make that choice.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Children, Reality, Wife

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• The only link between Literature and the Drama left to us in England at the present moment is the bill of the play.

  Oscar Wilde

  Drama, Play, Literature

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.70, Wordsworth Editions

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• Oh, if only the suffering soul knew how it is loved by God, it would die of joy and excess of happiness! Some day, we will know the value of suffering, but then we will no longer be able to suffer. The present moment is ours.

  Mary Faustina Kowalska

  Joy, Soul, Suffering

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

  Rajneesh

  Moving, Hands, 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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• Become friendly with the present moment, because if you do not become friendly with the present moment you cannot become friendly with life.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Friendly, Moments, Ifs

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• There are certain ways in which I cultivate awareness, both through mindful yoga and taking care of my body and taking time to actually drop as deeply as possible into stillness, into whatever is unfolding in the present moment.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Yoga, Body, Care

  "Jon Kabat-Zinn on Living Mindfuly". Interview with Elisha Goldstein, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 30, 2010.

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• And, as you know, the present moment is where ALL your power is. A reminder I need regularly. Maybe you too.

  Christiane Northrup

  Needs, Moments, Reminders

  FaceBook post by Dr. Christiane Northrup from Aug 16, 2010

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• We human beings have enormous difficulty in focusing on the present; we always thinking about what we did, about how we could have done it better.... or else we think about the future, about what we're going to do.... But at this precise moment, you also realize that you can change your future by bringing the past into the present. Past and future only exist in our mind. The present moment, though, is outside of time, it's Eternity.... It isn't what you did in the past the will affect the present. It's what you do in the present that will redeem the past and thereby change the future.

  Paulo Coelho

  Past, Thinking, Mind

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• Give yourself a gift: the present moment.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Giving, Moments

  Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.110, Modern Library

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• None of us sees history fully; none of us is adequately aware of how the arrangements of the present moment foreclose the possibilities of others to fully live their only lives.

  Garth Greenwell

  Moments, Possibility, Arrangements

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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