Quotes About Present

Your past constructs your present and future, thereby making you a three-dimensional human being.

Tijd heeft geen betekenis op een schilderij. Als het goed is tenminste.' 'En op foto's?' vroeg Vogels. 'De meeste foto's hebben een rouwrand. Heden overleed. Een goed schilderij is net als een stem op een band. Altijd nu, in het heden. Maar wat lul ik, ik fotografeer nauwelijks nog.

Today really matters if tomorrow really counts!

At the sales counter, the human race's greatest confrontation with existence, there were no yesterdays, no history to be relived, only an intense transactional present.

You only ever have a moment to live, this moment, and yet we all tend to live in the past or in the future.

Mindful awareness—or mindfulness—spontaneously arises out of this Being mode when we learn to pay attention, on purpose, in the present moment, without judgment, to things as they actually are.

Mindful awareness – or mindfulness – spontaneously arises out of this Being mode when we learn to pay attention, on purpose, in the present moment, without judgment, to things as they actually are. In mindfulness, we start to see the world as it is, not as we expect it to be, how we want it to be, or what we fear it might become.

Thirdly, the breath provides a natural, gently moving target to focus on in your meditation; it grounds you in the here and now. You cannot take a breath for five minutes ago, or for five minutes' time. You can only take a breath for now

If you could double the number of hours that you were truly alive each day then, in effect, you would be doubling your life expectancy.

In mindfulness, we start to see the world as it is, not as we expect it to be, how we want it to be, or what we fear it might become

The past tempts us, the present confuses us, and the future frightens us. And our lives slip away, moment by moment, lost in that vast terrible in-between. But there is still time to seize that one last fragile moment.

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Each moment is all being, each moment is the entire world. Reflect now whether any being or any world is left out of the present moment.

How long will you wait for the right time to come? The right time is now and the right place is here.

Change is the basis of human life, so don't attach yourself to birth or death, continuation or discontinuation. Just live right in the middle of the flow of change, where there is nothing to hold on to. How do you do this? Just be present and devote yourself to doing something. This is the simple practice of Zen.

Present effects are due to karmic causes from the past. However, future effects arise from the causes we make in the present. It is always the present that counts.

But after having been forgotten, G. K. Chesterton is now enjoying a resurgence in popularity. Why? Well, the obvious reason is that people are reading him again. The rediscovery of Chesterton has less to do with his importance as a figure from history than his significance in the present.

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon — instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.

Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.

Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don't plan it. Don't wait for it. Just let it happen. It could be a new shirt at the men's store, a catnap in your office chair, or two cups of good, hot black coffee.

Because freedom, it turned out, wasn't like a new shoe: you didn't need to break it in. It felt comfortable the first time you tried it on. It wasn't the present that pinched, it was the past.

New Orleanians are notoriously late showing up, if they show up at all, because by and large they don't keep calendars. Calendars are tools for managing the future, and in New Orleans the future doesn't exist.

The decisions of our past are the architects of our present.

The urge to cram the maximum number of activities into the minimum amount of time, notes French cultural commentator Francois Tournier, makes us "prisoners of the present… If we do not slow down, we risk becoming alienated from our own future.