Quotes About Present

Inner peace does not go well with endless worries and concerns about what was and what might be. What we do with our minds really matters - what we direct our attention to, and what habits of mind we develop.

Damn the future, right? It's right now that matters. When you don't have a fu- ture, it's always right now that means everything.

If we use the past only to creature heroes for present purposes, we will never understand the richness of human thought or the plurality of ways of knowing.

Hope is very often a refusal to know what is so, and steadfastly it is a refusal to live as if the present moment is good enough and all we really have. Hopeless is the collapse of that refusal, and it looks a lot like depression

The past has but one path, the present has many and the future none.

You have to remember one life, one death–this one! To enter fully the day, the hour, the moment whether it appears as life or death, whether we catch it on the inbreath or outbreath, requires only a moment, this moment. And along with it all the mindfulness we can muster, and each stage of our ongoing birth, and the confident joy of our inherent luminosity. (24)

Until we find out who was born this time around, it seems irrelevant to seek earlier identities. I have heard many people speak of who they believe they were in previous incarnations, but they seem to have very little idea of who they are in this one. . . . Let's take one life at a time. Perhaps the best way to do that is to live as though there were no afterlife or reincarnation. To live as though this moment was all that was allotted. (132)

Happily ever after doesn't begin with Once upon a time: it begins with Now.

The noun of self becomes a verb. This flashpoint of creation in the present moment is where work and play merge.

Do not borrow tomorrow's troubles today

Live in this moment ... for it is the only moment we have!

According to the Law of Attraction, the physical reality that you experience at present is drawn towards the future probability you desired when it attains more power.

When you live for every second, tomorrow doesn't matter!

Stop harboring grudges against those who have wronged you, it just holds you back when you really want to be in the NOW.

Each minute of my life is brand new and ready to be used.

Concurrent time is a state of time where all the happenings occur at the same time. The creations of the present are influenced by both the past and the future actions and all the three interact where even a future event can change what can happen in the present.

There is no 'out there', only 'here' exists.

Destiny is what is happening to you right now.

Once upon a time when I knew nothing I wanted fame and fortune. Now I know how little I know, I just want to be ...

I had today so what does tomorrow matter!

If you have one wish, wish for everything to be exactly as it is. Then wait patiently for your wish to come true.

You taught me about concentration. At first I thought that meant just being still, but I was to understand it meant much more. You meant to tell me to be where I was, not some place in the past or future. I worried too much about tomorrow.

Let me clarify this even further: The abundant life comes down to a daily life, not just a quality of life that awaits us in heaven.

Transference: treating, responding to, and/or having feelings about someone in the present as though they were someone important from the past.