Present Moment Quotes - Page 8

• The most heartbreaking thing of all is how we cheat ourselves of the present moment.

  Pema Chodron

  Heartbreaking, Moments, Cheat

  Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.6, Shambhala Publications

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• Peace comes from being aligned with the present moment. Wherever you are, you feel that you are home—because you are home.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Home, Moments, Feels

  "5 Reasons You’re Not At Peace Right Now", www.huffingtonpost.com. October 15, 2012.

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• Our right hemisphere, it thinks in pictures and it learns kinesthetically through the movement of our bodies. Information ... explodes into this enormous collage of what this present moment looks like, smells like and tastes like, what it feels like and what it sounds like.

  Jill Bolte Taylor

  Thinking, Smell, Brain

  "My stroke of insight". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February 2008.

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• The future is carved out of the present moment. Tomorrow's harvest depends upon today's ploughing and sowing.

  Chinmayananda Saraswati

  Inspiring, Moving, Heart

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• We spend so little time in the present moment that it's anything but ordinary.

  Andy Puddicombe

  Motivation, Inspiration, Ordinary

  "All it takes is 10 mindful minutes". TED conference, www.ted.com. November 2012.

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• In the freshness of the present moment, past is gone, future is not yet born, and—if one remains in pure mindfulness and freedom—disturbing thoughts arise and go without leaving a trace. That is basic meditation.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Past, Meditation, Leaving

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• From a mind filled with infinite love comes the power to create infinite possibilities. We have the power to think in ways that reflect and attract all the love in the world. Such thinking is called enlightenment. Enlightenment is not a process we work toward, but a choice available to us in any instant.

  Marianne Williamson

  Thinking, Choices, Mind

  Marianne Williamson (2012). “The Law of Divine Compensation: On Work, Money, and Miracles”, p.7, Harper Collins

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• In the spiritual world there are no time divisions such as the past, present and future; for they have contracted themselves into a single moment of the present where life quivers in its true sense. The past and the future are both rolled up in this present moment of illumination, and this present moment is not something standing still with all its contents, for it ceaselessly moves on.

  D.T. Suzuki

  Spiritual, Single Mom, Moving

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• Past and future exist only in our memory. The present moment, though, is outside of time, it's Eternity.

  Paulo Coelho

  Memories, Past, Moments

  "Aleph". Book by Paulo Coelho, 2010.

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• The present moment has always been available to spiritual seekers, but as long as you are seeking you are not available to the present moment. "Seeking" implies that you are looking to the future for some answer, or for some achievement, spiritual or otherwise. Everybody is in the seeking mode, seeking to add something to who they are, whether it be money, relationships, possessions, knowledge, status.. or spiritual attainment.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Knowledge, Long

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• If I had never touched Holmes, who has tended to obscure my higher work, my position in literature would at the present moment be a more commanding one.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Literature, Moments, Obscure

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2012). “The Sherlock Holmes Archives (incl. The Truth About Sherlock Holmes)”, p.9, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Now, we don't really believe these things - intellectually we know better - but we believe them viscerally, and live by them, and they cause us to prioritize our own needs over the needs of others, even though what we really want, in our hearts, is to be less selfish, more aware of what's actually happening in the present moment, more open, and more loving.

  George Saunders

  Selfish, Believe, Heart

  "George Saunders’s Advice to Graduates". George Saunders' Speech at Syracuse University for the class of 2013, 6thfloor.blogs.nytimes.com. July 31, 2013.

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• To the ego, the present moment hardly exists. Only past and future are considered important. This total reversal of the truth accounts for the fact that in the ego mode the mind is so dysfunctional. It is always concerned with keeping the past alive, because without it - who are you?

  Eckhart Tolle

  Past, Ego, Mind

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.22, New World Library

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• Asking ourselves, 'Where am I right now?' gives us a chance to step outside the internal dialogue for a moment of peace. Look around you, take a deep breath and notice what you see, hear and feel. Present moment awareness is the point of power and choice. It frees us from our compulsive thoughts.

  Laura Harvey

  Letting Go, Past, Giving

  "Letting Go: How to Release the Past" by Laura Harvey, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 26, 2011.

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• Your past history and all of your hurts are no longer here in your physical reality. Don't allow them to be here in your mind, muddying your present moments. Your life is like a play with several acts. Some of the characters who enter have short roles to play, others, much longer. But all are necessary, otherwise they wouldn't be in the play. Embrace them all, and move on to the next act.

  Wayne Dyer

  Life, Moving On, Letting Go

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Apr 03, 2012

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• Put the past behind you, the present moment is all that matters, in the life of those who want to be happy.

  Leon Brown

  Beautiful, Past, Matter

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• Remember that even if you were to live for three thousand years, or thirty thousand, you could not lose any other life than the one you have, and there will be no other life after it. So the longest and the shortest lives are the same. The present moment is shared by all living creatures, but the time that is past is gone forever. No one can lose the past or the future, for if they don't belong to you, how can they be taken from you?

  Marcus Aurelius

  Life, Taken, Past

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• It is the fashion to style the present moment an extraordinary crisis.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Wisdom, Fashion, Intelligence

  Benjamin Disraeli, Edmund Gosse, Robert Arnot (1904). “The Works of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield, Embracing Novels, Romances, Plays, Poems, Biography, Short Stories and Great Speeches: Coningsby, v. 2. Selected speeches”

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• Come back to square one, just the minimum bare bones. Relaxing with the present moment, relaxing with hopelessness, relaxing with death, not resisting the fact that things end, that things pass, that things have no lasting substance, that everything is changing all the time-that is the basic message.

  Pema Chodron

  Buddhism, Squares, Suffering

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• Do not encumber your mind with useless thoughts. What good does it do to brood on the past or anticipate the future? Remain in the simplicity of the present moment.

  Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

  Wisdom, Buddhism, Past

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• When the mind is full of memories and preoccupied by the future, it misses the freshness of the present moment. In this way, we fail to recognize the luminous simplicity of mind that is always present behind the veils of thought.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Memories, Buddhism, Simplicity

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• Humility does not mean believing oneself to be inferior, but to be freed from self-importance. It is a state of natural simplicity which is in harmony with our true nature and allows us to taste the freshness of the present moment.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Wisdom, Believe, Mean

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• When we let go of our battles and open our hearts to things as they are, then we come to rest in the present moment. This is the beginning and the end of spiritual practice.

  Jack Kornfield

  Letting Go, Spiritual, Heart

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• The reason domestic pets are so lovable and so helpful to us is because they enjoy, quietly and placidly, the present moment.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Cat, Pet, Helpful

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• There is nothing that you can do to change the present moment. It simply is. You may be able to change the situation one second, one minute, one hour, or one day from now, but there's absolutely nothing you can do to change the way things are right here and now. By not getting irritated you will be more effective in doing what needs to be done to change the situation for the next moment.

  Ken Keyes Jr.

  One Day, Needs, Done

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