Quotes About Present

The differences between Buber and Hegel far outnumber their similarities. But they are at one in their opposition to any otherworldliness, in their insistence on finding in the present whatever beauty and redemption there may be, and in their refusal to pin their hopes on any beyond.

Temporality temporalizes as a future which makes present in the process of having been.

most of us are rarely inside the present moment. We spend a disproportionate amount of time plotting the future or revisiting past events. But when we swim, or shower, or take a bath, we have little choice but to position ourselves in the present, giving our thoughts room to float and wander

Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.

There are only two days on my calendar, today and THAT DAY!

How much more properly did the apostles call themselves servants of the present Christ and not vicars of an absent Christ.

There are two days in my calendar: This day and that Day.

No time like the present' Mrs Manley (The Lost Lover, 1696), 1663-1724 'From marrying in haste, and repenting at leisure; Not liking the person, yet liking his treasure.' Elizabeth Thomas, 1675-1731 'What's done cannot be undone.' William Shakespeare (Macbeth, 1606), 1564-1616

The Buddha does not see nibbana as a special, metaphysical place to go to but as a process of dissolution that one can achieve here and now.

I ask only one indulgence. Please remember that like any scientist, I hope to present probable and reasonable solutions, not certainties.

Sometimes now was enough. Sometimes it was everything.

Past and to come seem best things present worst.

No matter what happened in the past, what you did or she didn't do, nothing can change that. All you got is now and you don't know for how long.

So enjoy present pleasures as to not mar those to come.

In love, the past is not important, but the present. Experience is more relevant than the pain you went through. The only thing that will make it stronger is forgiveness and not the retorting of sin.

Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.

These two truths are the same in weight and importance. Accept and love WHO and WHERE you are now, and all good things shall find you there.

Love is most nearly itself when here and now cease to matter.

Were the whole realm of nature mine, That were a present far too small: Love so amazing, so divine Demands my soul, my life, my all.

Live every moment in the present. Do it. Risk it. Buy it if you love it. Loving well takes practice, delicious practice. If it feels good, it must be good.

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries

They say life is a gift, and I say waking up everyday is an opportunity to live it.

The meaning of life is not to be discovered only after death in some hidden, mysterious realm; on the contrary, it can be found by eating the succulent fruit of the Tree of Life and by living in the here and now as fully and creatively as we can.

We are aware that the gods of patriarchy are pale derivatives and reversals of ancient yet always Present Goddess(es). We suspect that phallocentric writers and artists who have even a glimmer of insight are sometimes made uncomfortable by their own state of deception. Those who have any awareness of the heinous crime of reversal which is patriarchy must be in a state of deep conflict and fear of...Her.