Present Moment Quotes - Page 28

• Mind without agitation is meditation. Mind in the present moment is meditation. Mind that has no hesitation, no anticipation is meditation. Mind that has come back home, to the source, is meditation. Mind that becomes no mind is meditation.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Home, Meditation, Mind

  Ravi Shankar, Ravi Shankar (Sri Sri) (2005). “Wisdom for the New Millennium”

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• The present moment is ever the critical time. The future is merely for intelligent forethought.

  Robert Barr

  Intelligent, Moments, Forethought

  Robert Barr (2016). “The Triumphs of Eugene Valmont”, p.44, Oldcastle Books

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• Once in awhile throughout the day...let go into full acceptance of the present moment, including how you are feeling and what you perceive to be happening... Give yourself permission to allow this moment to be exactly as it is, and allow yourself to be exactly as you are. Then, when you're ready, move in the direction your heart tells you to go, mindfully and with resolution.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Letting Go, Moving, Heart

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• Yoga is a technology for arriving in this present moment. It is a means of waking up from our spiritual amnesia, so that we can remember all that we already know.

  Donna Farhi

  Spiritual, Yoga, Mean

  Donna Farhi (2011). “Yoga Mind, Body & Spirit: A Return to Wholeness”, p.5, Macmillan

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• What is the special privilege of youth? It is, I think, the power of looking forward, the firm belief that the future holds something that is worth possessing, and that, therefore, one can let the present moment drop from one without regret and without fear.

  Edith Sitwell

  Regret, Thinking, Special

  Edith Sitwell (Dame), Elizabeth Salter, Allanah Harper (1976). “Edith Sitwell: fire of the mind : an anthology”, Michael Joseph

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• We would willingly, and without remorse, sacrifice not only the present moment, but all the interval (no matter how long) that separates us from any favorite object.

  William Hazlitt

  Sacrifice, Long, Matter

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.171, Delphi Classics

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• What happens in the present moment? In the present moment, you are producing thought, speech, and action. And they continue in the world.

  Nhat Hanh

  World, Speech, Action

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com.

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