Quotes About Present

It takes no more time to be mindful than mindless, and mindfulness is the way that you will taste freedom. Commit to doing one activity mindfully every day for the next month, in addition to the other daily practices.

We can recognize the ego as that part of ourself that lives in our historical past, our story, rather than in the present moment.

holiness is made of dailiness, of living life as it comes to me, not as I insist it be.

Those who insist on preserving yesterday when today has already swept it away like sand on a beach lose the opportunity to guide the present. Rather they insist on resisting the present to the point that it simply fails to notice them anymore. It is a choice whether to run the risk of becoming part of a comfortable but insignificant cult in a society that is passing or participate in the efforts of a society that is rushing to regain its balance in a headwind of major proportions.

The young hear memory in the voice of their elders and, delighted by these voices from the past or bored by them, too often miss the content behind the content. Memory is not about what went on in the past. It is about what is going on inside of us right this moment. It is never idle. It never lets us alone.

This compulsion to look back, to explain to myself, to others, why I did what I did—or, worse, to justify why I didn't do something else—is one of the most direct roads to depression we have. Our thoughts, emotions, and attitudes, according to Dr. Andrew Weil in his book Healthy Aging, are "key determinants of how we age." They can threaten the quality of time we bring to the present.

It doesn't matter. I'm not asking forever of you...just let me love you now.

Yesterday's gone, so has the day before. Don't let's waste today arguing about it.

When we are truly awake and present in ourselves and to each other and the world around us, miracles abound.

My humanity includes not just what I am at the present moment, but what I can be. I am also my future, To exclude the potential from the real, and identify the real only with what is already actualized is another form of reductionism. -Sexuality and Spiritual Growth

we maintain awareness, whether we know it or not, healing is taking place… a door that has been shut begins to open…. As the door opens, we see that the present is absolute and that, in a sense, the whole universe begins right now, in each second. And the healing of life is in that second of simple awareness…. Healing is always just being here, with a simple mind. ?—?Charlotte Joko Beck

Every instant is a new universe.

If you want to live forever you are dreadfully dangerous because you're not living now.

Ahora que no te escribo cuando me voy. Ahora que estoy más vivo de lo que estoy. Ahora que nada es urgente, que todo es presente, que hay pan para hoy. Ahora que no te pido lo que me das. Ahora que no me mido con los demás. Ahora que, todos los cuentos, parecen el cuento de nunca empezar.

There are many To-morrows, my Love, my Love, - There is only one To-day.

The past tense is forensic. It's all about blame. The present tense is demonstrative. It's all about values.

The past tense is forensic. It's all about blame. The present tense is demonstrative. It's all about values." I put on his thick German accent to make her laugh. "'But the future tense—that's where the real magic happens. The future tense is deliberative.

Always eat every meal as though it was your last.

The seeds of the past bear fruit in the present,

Live today. Pray today. Let the Lord take care of tomorrow, seeing as how he knows more about it than we do anyhow.

the effort is to understand that occlusion is an ongoing, malleable process, sometimes in a form already congealed and seemingly over as it acts on the present, making of us unwittingly compliant observers, nearly always belated in identifying just how it works.

Connectivities to those colonial histories that bear on the present can escape scrutiny: some of those that are most pressing evade recognition. I ask why and how that may be so.

She had no history and nothing to plan for. It was all over for the time being. She just was.

if you think about one memory for most of a day, is that not your present? Some people live in the now; some people prefer to reside in the past—either choice is valid.