Quotes About Present

God exists in eternity. The only point where eternity meets time is in the present. The present is the only time there is.

Live in the Moment", "Empty Your Mind of the Trash" Wisdom is the Use of Knowledge

Apothegms are the wisdom of the past condensed for the instruction and guidance of the present.

I have wisdom. I feel love. I live in the present and I try to present a dimension that brings harmony and healing.

The past is important for all the information and wisdom it holds. But you can get lost in it. You've got to learn to keep the knowledge of the past with you as you pursue the present.

We are tasting the taste of eternity this minute.

Our present predicament comes from the fact that running the economy on blood is no longer fashionable. We can't end this depression with another war.

Be contented with the things of the present. The cows and the dogs are, and so are all animals; and that is what makes them animals. So if man rests content with the present and gives up all search into the beyond, mankind will have to go back to the animal plane again.

We must also learn that time itself is indivisible, that every act is a blending of past experience, present situation and future expectancy.

We think the future lies ahead, but its seed is contained in the present. There is no sharp break between the two: the lie we tell today can send us sprawling a year from now; the way we treat our infant determines the way he treats us when he reaches adolescence.

we know nothing of tomorrow, our business is to be good and happy today

Never give way to melancholy: nothing encroaches more; I fight against it vigorously. One great remedy is, to take short views of life. Are you happy now? Are you likely to remain so till this evening? or next week? or next year? Then why destroy present happiness by a distant misery, which may never come at all, or you may never live to see it? For every substantial grief has twenty shadows, and most of them shadows of your own making.

Mindfulness, the aware, balanced acceptance of present experience, is at the heart of what the Buddha taught.

Mindfulness, the aware, balanced acceptance of present experience, is at the heart of what the Buddha taught. This book is meant to be a basic Buddhist primer, but no one should be daunted. It's easier than you think [p. 4]

Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I've taken for granted.

There is no day or night in a hospital, there is only now.

But there's no pause in real life. There's also no rewind. And there's definitely no delete. There's just now running on and on, and you can't ever stop it, no matter what you do.

Live for today, look forward to the future

Love is most nearly itselfWhen here and now cease to matter.Old men ought to be explorersHere and there does not matterWe must be still and still movingInto another intensityFor a further union, a deeper communionThrough the dark cold and the empty desolation,The wave cry, the wind cry, the vast watersOf the petrel and the porpoise. In my end is my beginning.

Time does not exist as some external, objective container, but actually time is exactly our current dynamic activity and awareness.

A lot of our culture and its entertainments encourage us to run away from the reality of the aliveness of our life.

If you are not happy here and now, you never will be.

Happy people live secure in the knowledge that the activities that bring them enjoyment in the present will also lead to a fulfilling future.

It's not yesterday anymore