Quotes About Present

Meditation doesn't have to be complicated. What I do is about as simple as you can get. You could just count the beads, one, two, three, with your eyes closed or open, whatever makes you happy.

The best advice I have is, actually present yourself at a legal border crossing and make your case. Cross illegally and get arrested, and your children will be given to us. That's the simple fact, I'm afraid.

Most simply, 'present shock' is the human response to living in a world that's always on real time and simultaneous. You know, in some ways it's the impact of living in a digital environment, and in other ways it's just really what happens when you stop leaning so forward to the millennium and you finally arrive there.

The payoff of living in the past or the future is you never have to do your work in the present.

There is no other time. Today is the Superbowl. Today is the day I give birth. Today is the day I die.

This was the big trump card of Marxist-Leninist theory, the idea that people in the present were never more important than the goal, the plan, or the future—some utopian land that everybody would occupy once "purification" had rid it of the bourgeoisie.

The love of God is constantly active and present. His love didn't just happen once. It's forever moving in you and in your life.

When we come to a place where we trust that God's timing is perfect, we can be content no matter where we are because we know that God will not leave us there forever. Maintaining a passion for the present means embracing the light we have where we are at this time and trusting that it is enough.

To help them recognize their Demon Dialogue, I suggest that they: • Stay in the present and focus on what is happening between them right now. • Look at the circle of criticism that spins both of them around. There is no true "start" to a circle. • Consider the circle, the dance, as their enemy and the consequences of not breaking the circle.

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You're looking for a reason, she said. And that doesn't help. It doesn't change the present.

To constantly relive the past is to miss out on the present.

Mindful eating is about awareness. When you eat mindfully, you slow down, pay attention to the food you're eating, and savor every bite.

Instead of thinking of food as the enemy, allow yourself to enjoy the process of planning and preparing meals or going out to lunch with a friend. Stay in the present moment and understand that the purpose of food is nourishment.

Training your mind to be in the present moment is the #1 key to making healthier choices.

Just in case the world ends tomorrow, we might as well enjoy today.

No child is wholly wrapped in the present who has grown up seeing a Norman castle from his or her bedroom window.

As you gain more control over your past and present relationship with your parents, you will discover that your other relationships, especially your relationship with yourself, will improve dramatically. You will have the freedom, perhaps for the first time, to enjoy your own life.

Please don't let the unhappiness you knew in the past keep you from accepting happiness now.

The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes. It is equivalent to a sense of abusing the present.

Time does not give one much leeway: it thrusts us forward from behind, blows us through the narrow tunnel of the present into the future. But space is broad, teeming with possibilities, positions, intersections, passages, detours, U-turns, dead-ends, one-way streets. Too many possibilities, indeed.

He lived so badly, it seemed, because he always came into the moment encumbered

An event in the present evokes past sensations. But science couldn't explain how a foolish heart had the power to overrule common sense.

We don't realize how wonderful today is until tomorrow. —Amish proverb