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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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• 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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• I teach that the foundation for our practice is being able to go inward and disconnect from the busyness of our thoughts, that focusing the mind on bodily sensations and breath will ground us in the present moment. Yoga is about realizing who you really are, aside from your persona.

  James Fox

  Yoga, Practice, Mind

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• I would tell people to enjoy the present moment and the journey rather than the outcome.

  Judith Hill

  Journey, People, Outcomes

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.judithhill.com. September 18, 2014.

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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. The truth is in the present moment. The great paradox is that when I'm really able to do that, time slows down and opens up. Time feels suddenly and inexplicably without end.

  Dani Shapiro

  Past, Wish, Want

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• The reality is there is only each present moment: You are called to give a talk. You get out of a building and into a car. You look out of the window. You arrive at the venue. You sit in the chair; you wait; you step out onto the stage. Every movement is simple. There is only that.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Simple, Reality, Giving

  "The Awakening of Eckhart Tolle". Interview with Paula Coppel, www.eckharttolle.com.

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• The present moment is the only time that is eternal and the only time in which we can experience happiness.

  Deepak Chopra

  Moments, Only Time, Eternal

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• All the happiness and fulfillment that humans yearn for exists in the present moment.

  Deepak Chopra

  Moments, Fulfillment, Humans

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

  Paulo Coelho

  Mind, Worship, Moments

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• I think history is only ever invisible when it abets your sense of self, your desires, your ambitions, when it carries your life along in a kind of frictionless way. History is never invisible, finally, though some people seem to work very hard to be willfully blind. That's too harsh, or too self-righteous: 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

  Ambition, Thinking, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The present moment is a conspiracy of the total universe.
  To resist it is to resist the universe.
  Let go and flow.

  Deepak Chopra

  Letting Go, Flow, Resistance

  FaceBook post by Deepak Chopra from Apr 21, 2011

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