Quotes About Present

Alertness is a measure of how many nows you are alert to in a given period. The result is simple: you become more aware of what is going on as you learn to keep your attention in the now.

Awareness of what is, without judgment, is relaxing, and is the best precondition for change

Since the mind seems to have a will of its own, how can one learn to keep it in the present? By practice.

One thing that can be said about focus is that it is always here and now—that is, in present time and present space.

The greatest lapses in concentration come when we allow our minds to project what is about to happen or to dwell on what has already happened.

Since the mind seems to have a will of its own, how can one learn to keep it in the present? By practice. There is no other way. Every time your mind starts to leak away, simply bring it gently back.

Here and now are the only place and time when one ever enjoys himself or accomplishes anything. Most of our suffering takes place when we allow our minds to imagine the future or mull over the past.

Focus means not dwelling on the past, either on mistakes or glories; it means not being so caught up in the future, either its fears or its dreams, that my full attention is taken from the present. The

Anxiety is fear about what may happen in the future, and it occurs only when the mind is imagining what the future may bring. But when your attention is on the here and now, the actions which need to be done in the present have their best chance of being successfully accomplished, and as a result the future will become the best possible present.

The message of the Inner Game is simple: focus. Focus of attention in the present moment, the only one you can really live in

The message of the Inner Game is simple: focus. Focus of attention in the present moment, the only one you can really live in, is at the heart of this book and at the heart of the art of doing anything well.

Focus means not dwelling on the past, either on mistakes or glories; it means not being so caught up in the future, either its fears or its dreams, that my full attention is taken from the present.

Focus means keeping the mind now and here.

I know no other way out of what is both the maze of the eternal present and the prison of the self except with a string of words.

Santa Claus has already been here and everything. Want to see what he brought for you?" "Is it a big present?" "Very big." "With a big red bow on it?

The present was better. Much, much better. Humans had coffee now. And gelato.

I want to be firm that the idea of the traditional itself is highly constructed and highly ideological. This version is one among many. There is no original, only endless multiple trails that point into the past. We can never grasp that past. These stories are always about the present.

Expectation is the greatest impediment to living, running ahead to tomorrow, it loses today.

Magic wasn't meant to be captured. You just had to live in the moment.

The part where you need to choose among the choices that are there, and not the ones that aren't there anymore. At least not how you need them to be. You're still stuck on some imaginary idea you have of how it could have been. You need to think about how it is now. And how you want it to be.

No me importa lo que digan por ahi, Cali -replicó Tabit -. Todos tenemos un pasado; lo que verdaderamente cuenta es lo que somos ahora, y lo que queremos ser en el futuro. Lo que hayas hecho antes... es asunto tuyo; es tu vida y no tengo derecho a entrometerme en ella.

The true way to live is to enjoy every moment as it passes, and surely it is in the everyday things around us that the beauty of life lies.

She thought to herself, "This is now." She was glad that the cozy house, and Pa and Ma and the firelight and the music, were now. They could not be forgotten, she thought, because now is now. It can never be a long time ago.

He gave me a gift, a surprise. It was my first present in this place so far from home.