Quotes About Present

You don't have time, Len. That is the most bitter and the most beautiful piece of advice that I can offer. If you don't have what you want now, you don't have what you want

most of us spend our time seeking happiness and security without acknowledging the underlying purpose of our search. Each of us is looking for a path back to the present: We are trying to find good enough reasons to be satisfied now. Acknowledging that this is the structure of the game we are playing allows us to play it differently. How we pay attention to the present moment largely determines the character of our experience and, therefore, the quality of our lives.

It is always now

in the present. As we are about to see, however, both of these assumptions are false.

We spend our lives telling ourselves the story of past and future, while the reality of the present goes largely unexplored.

This is an empirical claim: Look closely enough at your own mind in the present moment, and you will discover that the self is an illusion.

After all, there is an enormous difference between being hostage to one's thoughts and being freely and nonjudgmentally aware of life in the present.

How we pay attention to the present moment largely determines the character of our experience and, therefore, the quality of our lives.

We spend our lives telling ourselves the story of past and future, while the reality of the present goes largely unexplored. Now we live in ignorance of the freedom and simplicity of consciousness, prior to the arising of thought.

From the perspective of faith, it is better to ape the behaviour of one's ancestors than to find creative ways to uncover new truths in the present.

most of us spend our time seeking happiness and security without acknowledging the underlying purpose of our search. Each of us is looking for a path back to the present: We are trying to find good enough reasons to be satisfied now.

The realistic goal to be attained through spiritual practice is not some permanent state of enlightenment that admits of no further efforts, but a capacity to be free in this moment, in the midst of whatever is happening. If you can do that, you have already solved most of the problems you will encounter in life.

Of the uncertainties of our present state, the most dreadful and alarming is the uncertain continuance of reason.

From what has been premised, it may be supposed, that the present collection is not published ultimately, nor even principally, any more than the other two, for the sake of entertainment only. A much nobler end is in view.

Kita tidak tahu bagaimana hari esok, Yang bisa kita lakukan ialah berbuat sebaik-baiknya dan berbahagia pada hari ini.

Negative thoughts and emotions are very powerful and prevent us from living in the present moment - they literally steal away our precious time.

Ze moet het huis uit, en haar hoofd uit. Zolang we in een bekende omgeving zijn, blijven we hangen in ons hoofd, met al die onzinnige gedachten waar we niets mee opschieten. In het buitenlans léven we in onze zintuigen; dan nemen we al die nieuwe en prachtige taferelen, geuren en geluiden in ons op. We stijgen uit boven het zinloze gepruttel van onze gedachten en leven volkomen in het nu. Fairfield Park -

The Now is the only thing that is real, anyway

But there's nothing to be done about it. All I can do is put in time waiting for the inevitable, observing as the ghosts of my past rattle around my vacuous present. They crash and bang and make themselves at home, mostly because there's no competition. I've stopped fighting them. They're crashing and banging around in there now. Make yourselves at home, boys. Stay awhile. Oh, sorry—I see you already have. Damn ghosts.

Live in the present. Take care of the relationships in front of you now. Most friendships have a natural life, and when they've lived that out, you'll know.

The past did affect the present and the future, in ways you could see and a million ones you couldn't. Time wasn't a thing you could divide easily; there was no defined middle or beginning or end. I could pretend to leave the past behind, but it would not leave me.

Right now, though, I wanted not to think forward or backward, but only to lose myself in the words.

And the rest is history,' I said. Nah.' He shook his head. 'The rest is now.

For any of us our forever could end in an hour, or a hundred of years from now. You can never know for sure, so you'd better make every second count.