Quotes About Present

Cuanto más se enfoque en el tiempo — pasado y futuro — más pierde el Ahora, lo más precioso que hay.

To be identified with your mind is to be trapped in time: the compulsion to live almost exclusively through memory and anticipation. This creates an endless preoccupation with past and future and an unwillingness to honour and acknowledge the present moment and allow it to be. The compulsion arises because the past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfilment in whatever form. Both are illusions

If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally.

How to be at peace now? By making peace with the present moment. The present moment is the field on which the game of life happens. It cannot happen anywhere else. Once you have made peace with the present moment, see what happens, what you can do or choose to do, or rather what life does through you.

For the ego to survive, it must make time -- past and future -- more important than the present moment. The ego cannot tolerate becoming friendly with the present moment, except briefly just after it got what it wanted. But nothing can satisfy the ego for long. As long as it runs your life, there are two ways of being unhappy. Not getting what you want is one. Getting what you want is the other.

End the delusion of time. Time and mind are inseparable. Remove time from the mind and it stops — unless you choose to use it. To be identified with your mind is to be trapped in time: the compulsion to live almost exclusively through memory and anticipation.

We can learn not to keep situations or events alive in our minds, but to return our attention continuously to the pristine, timeless present moment rather than be caught up in mental movie-making. Our very Presence then becomes our identity, rather than our thoughts and emotions.

Para el ego, el momento presente casi no existe. Lo único que se considera importante es el pasado y el futuro. Esta inversión total de la verdad es la causante de que en su "modalidad ego", la mente sea tan disfuncional. Está siempre preocupada de mantener el pasado vivo porque sin él ¿quién es usted? Se proyecta constantemente hacia el futuro para asegurar su supervivencia y para buscar algún tipo de alivio o de realización en él.

preocu-parse". A veces esta pista de sonido va acompañada por imágenes visuales o "películas mentales". Incluso si la voz es relevante para la situación del momento, la interpretará de acuerdo con el pasado. Esto se debe a que la voz pertenece a su mente condicionada

If you keep your attention in the body as much as possible, you will be anchored in the Now. You won't lose yourself in the external world, and you won't lose yourself in your mind. Thoughts and emotions, fears and desires may still be there to some extent, but they won't take you over.

The mind always seeks to deny the Now and to escape from it.

Siempre que se dé cuenta de que ha surgido alguna forma de negatividad en usted, mírela no como un fracaso sino como una señal útil que le dice: Despierta. Sal de la mente. Vive el presente

You can always cope with the present moment, but you cannot cope with something that is only a mind projection — you cannot cope with the future.

An increasingly heavy burden of time has been accumulating in the human mind. All individuals are suffering under this burden, but they also keep adding to it every moment whenever they ignore or deny that precious moment or reduce it to a means of getting to some future moment, which only exists in the mind, never in actuality. The

Enlightenment consciously chosen means to relinquish your attachment to past and future and to make the Now the main focus of your life.

Suffering needs time; it cannot survive in the Now.

Nothing ever happened in the past that can prevent you from being present now;

A victim identity is the belief that the past is more powerful than the present, which is the opposite of the truth.

But I still have to pay the bills tomorrow, and I am still going to grow old and die just like everybody else. So how can I ever say that I am free of time?

The oak tree or the eagle would be bemused by such a question. "What time?" they would ask. "Well, of course, it's now. The time is now. What else is there?" Yes, we need the mind as well as time to function in this world, but there comes a point where they take over our lives, and this is where dysfunction, pain, and sorrow set in.

To the ego, the present moment hardly exists. Only past and future are considered important. This total reversal of the truth accounts for the fact that in the ego mode the mind is so dysfunctional.

Jesus speaks of the five careless (unconscious) women who do not have enough oil (consciousness) to keep their lamps burning (stay present) and so miss the bridegroom (the Now) and don't get to the wedding feast (enlightenment). These five stand in contrast to the five wise women who have enough oil (stay conscious).

Pregúntese a sí mismo qué "problema" tiene ahora mismo, no el año que viene, mañana o dentro de cinco minutos. ¿Qué está mal en este momento? Usted puede siempre enfrentar el Ahora, pero nunca puede enfrentar el futuro, ni tiene que hacerlo. La respuesta, la fuerza, la acción o el recurso correctos estarán allá cuando los necesite, no antes ni después.

The ego doesn't know that your only opportunity for being at peace is now. Or maybe it does know, and it is afraid that you may find this out. Peace, after all, is the end of the ego.