Present Moment Quotes - Page 23

• At the present moment two things about the Christian religion must surely be clear to anybody with eyes in his head. One is, that men cannot do without it; the other, that they cannot do with it as it is.

  Matthew Arnold

  Christian, Eye, Men

  Matthew Arnold (1875). “God & the Bible: A Review of Objections to 'Literature & Dogma'”, p.14

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• But the idea of science and systematic knowledge is wanting to our whole instruction alike, and not only to that of our business class ... In nothing do England and the Continent at the present moment more strikingly differ than in the prominence which is now given to the idea of science there, and the neglect in which this idea still lies here; a neglect so great that we hardly even know the use of the word science in its strict sense, and only employ it in a secondary and incorrect sense.

  Matthew Arnold

  Education, Lying, Science

  Matthew Arnold, George William Erskine Russell, Thomas Burnett Smart (1904). “The Works of Matthew Arnold”

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• Sometimes we believe that happiness is not possible in the here and now, that we need a few more conditions to be happy. So we run toward the future to get the conditions we think are missing. But by doing so we sacrifice the present moment; we sacrifice true life.

  Nhat Hanh

  Motivational, Running, Believe

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• The only moment ever available to you is the present moment. Everything else is memory or imagination.

  Leonard Jacobson

  Memories, Imagination, Moments

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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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• When effort is needed, effort will appear. When effortlessness becomes essential, it will assert itself. You need not push life about. Just flow with it and give yourself completely to the task of the present moment.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Life, Giving, Effort

  "I am That". Book by Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, p.140, 1973.

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• The present moment is creative, creating with an unheard-of intensity.

  Le Corbusier

  Creating, Creative, Moments

  Le Corbusier (1964). “When the cathedrals were white”

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• Humor requires perspective. Perspective requires focus. Focus requires balance. Balance requires attention to the present moment. In the 'now' one is freed from labels. Success and failure, good luck and bad—they're all constructs of your mind.

  Tom Bergeron

  Success, Failure, Humor

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• Worrying is worthless. When you stop focusing on what has already happened and what may never happen, then you'll be in the present moment. Then you'll begin to experience joy in life.

  Brian Weiss

  Life, Worry, Joy

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• If you allow yourself to fully feel the life you're in - not conceptually, but viscerally in the present moment - then that is inherently meaningful.

  Roger Housden

  Meaningful, Moments, Feels

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Practice remembrance of the present moment, again and again.

  Roger Housden

  Practice, Remembrance, Moments

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• There are many refugees, if not more refugees inside the country than outside the country. There is also the question of working to aid us at the present moment when we are campaigning for elections.

  Robert Mugabe

  Country, Election, Moments

  Source: www.revolutionarycommunist.org

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• I feel history is more of a story than a lesson. I know this idea of presentism: this idea of constantly evoking the past to justify the present moment. A lot of people will tell you, "history is how we got here." And learning from the lessons of history. But that's imperfect. If you learn from history you can do things for all the wrong reasons.

  Sarnath Banerjee

  Past, Ideas, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• In television and films, you never know the fate of anything. Focusing on the present moment - not getting so caught up on what could happen - that's been my biggest focus. Everything's happening seemingly at once.

  Christine Evangelista

  Fate, Focus, Television

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Feelings are only your history being occasioned by the present moment. If that's your enemy, then your history is your enemy. If sensations are your enemy, your body is your enemy. And if memory is your enemy, you'd better have a way of controlling your mind in such a way that you never are reminded of things that are painful from the past. If you avoid people, avoid having your buttons pushed, avoid going to places that might occasion anxiety; if you're hammering down drugs and alcohol; these are all methods of trying to mount that unhealthy agenda.

  Steven C. Hayes

  Memories, Past, People

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I don't understand why a Mark Rothko painting - as much as I love Mark Rothko - has to cost $73 million. I mean, I think $14 million is a pretty reasonable sum of money for a good Rothko painting. What's disturbing about this present moment is that these prices have been so out of control.

  Philip Taaffe

  Mean, Thinking, Painting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The present moment is all we will ever have. Only the forms change. Someone living in the actual 1890s would have the same feelings of what's modern and what's old-fashioned that we do now and that people will have 100 years from now. The forms change but the feelings are the same.

  Mark Ryden

  People, Feelings, Moments

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• One of the paradoxes that makes the internet such a suggestive place is that, on the one hand, we perceive it as perpetually in motion and changing, and, on the other hand, it has this god-like immortality to it: It seems like it won't die and is not subject to decay, and that everything can be unwound, unlike present-tense experience, where you can't archive the present moment, you can't go back and read it over again. That's the fundamental hallmark of the internet.

  Virginia Heffernan

  Internet, Moments, Immortality

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• If you want to experience eternal illumination, put the past and the future out of your mind and remain within the present moment.

  Elif Safak

  Past, Illumination, Mind

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• At the present moment in our culture this yearning for meaning and consciousness, this yearning to give and serve something higher than ourselves, is breaking through the hard crust of our widespread cultural materialism and pseudo-scientific underestimation of what a human being is meant to be together with an equally tragic overestimation of what we human beings are capable of in our present everyday state of being. The intensity of the present confusion about the nature and existence of God is a symptom of this yearning within the whole of our modern culture.

  Jacob Needleman

  Giving, Confusion, Everyday

  Source: www.watkinsmagazine.com

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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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• You can be very much aware that when you are stressed, it always is a sign you have lost the present moment. So, you can choose to re-enter the present moment.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Stressed, Moments, Lost

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• You have to make the decision to let go of the past if you want to move forward. Reliving your painful past will poison your heart and your tomorrow. If you look at today through the eyes of the past, you can never see what the present moment has to offer.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Letting Go, Moving, Heart

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• If we stop for a moment, it is possible to perceive a pattern in our lives; the motivators that have influenced us become more obvious. We are able to see life unfolding from BOTH ENDS AT ONCE, coming into the present moment. But until we have got to a certain point of realization, this is not possible, because everything is still seen as a series of apparent causes and effects.

  Reshad Feild

  Able, Causes, Realization

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• Sugar is gone; silk has gone; iron is threatened; wool is threatened; cotton will go! How long are you going to stand it? At the present moment these industries...are like sheep in a field.

  Joseph Chamberlain

  Sheep, Iron, Long

  Speech in Greenock (7 October 1903), quoted in "Joseph Chamberlain and the Tariff Reform Campaign" by Julian Amery, London: Macmillan, (p. 471), 1969.

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