Quotes About Present

In fact, anyone who stands on the edge of the unknown, fully in the present without reference point, experiences groundlessness. That's when our understanding goes deeper, when we find that the present moment is a pretty vulnerable place and that this can be completely unnerving and completely tender at the same time.

All of us derive security and comfort from the imaginary world of memories and fantasies and plans. We really don't want to stay with the nakedness of our present experience

The key instruction is to stay in the present. Don't get caught up in hopes of what you'll achieve and how good your situation will be some day in the future. What you do right now is what matters.

A fresh attitude starts to happen when we look to see that yesterday was yesterday, and now it is gone; today is today and now it is new. It is like that—every hour, every minute is changing. If we stop observing change, then we stop seeing everything as new. —DZIGAR KONGTRUL RINPOCHE T

Meditation is just gently coming back again and again to what's right here.

When we multitask and split up our mind into a million directions, we are actually creating our own suffering, because these habits strengthen strong emotional reactivity and discursive thought.

We can't control what's going to happen but we can grow in awareness of what is happening.

The state of nowness is available in that moment of squeeze. In that awkward, ambiguous moment is our own wisdom mind. Right there in the uncertainty of everyday chaos is our own wisdom mind.

you begin where you are, you see what a child you are, and you don't criticize that.

Among them was a man who had killed people in the Vietnam War and was tortured by self-loathing and guilt. Chögyam Trungpa told him, "That was then. This is now. You can always connect with your true nature at any time and be free of everything that went before.

According to these teachings, what we experience in the present is the result of the seeds we ve sown for hundreds of years, over the course of many lifetimes.

Vipassana is the art of living. Not the art of escaping.

I am for an art that takes into account the direct effect of the elements as they exist from day to day apart from representation.

A man's memory may almost become the art of continually varying and misrepresenting his past, according to his interest in the present.

One goal of my art is to help people remember why they are here now.

From 1940 to the present, the art world and particularly Los Angeles, has undergone a transformation not unlike the Italian Renaissance.

Visual media is the dominant art form in our present day culture, whereas poetry is, at best, a proxy. Yet poetry and film are both "dream factories."

You do not use art as a means to an end, but as a way to inhabit and explore the present. Right and wrong fade away; you recover your sense of what is authentic in you.

Music is an immediate art; it's always happening right now.

In the future, as in the present, as in the past, black people will build many new worlds.This is true. I will make it so. And you will help me.

Because the new the stories we tell, the art we make, the rockets we build, will influence the future that shapes our present.

Don't fear the future or regret the past but celebrate the present.

The present is only faced in any generation by the artist.

Burn the candles, use the nice sheets, wear the fancy lingerie. Don't save it for a special occasion; today is special.