Quotes About Present

Even when the ego seems to be concerned with the present, it is not the present that it sees: It misperceives it completely because it looks at it through the eyes of the past. Or it reduces the present to a means to an end, an end that always lies in the mind-projected future.

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. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences. No excuses. No negativity. No psychic pollution. Keep your inner space clear.

Why does the mind habitually deny or resist the Now? Because it cannot function and remain in control without time, which is past and future, so it perceives the timeless Now as threatening. Time and mind are in fact inseparable.

You keep your unhappiness alive by giving it time. That is its lifeblood.

Die to the past every moment.

Il viaggio esteriore può contenere milioni di passi, il viaggio interiore ne ha uno solo, il passo che compi adesso.

You may think that you need more time to understand the past or become free of it, in other words, that the future will eventually free you of the past. This is a delusion. Only the present can free you of the past. More time cannot free you of time.

Life is now. There was never a time when your life was not now, nor will there ever be.

know: Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. How do you know this is the experience you need? Because this is the experience you are having at this moment.

you can only be free now.

Forgiveness of the present is even more important than forgiveness of the past. If you forgive every moment — allow it to be as it is — then there will be no accumulation of resentment that needs to be forgiven at some later time.

Nur wenn du dich auf den gegenwärtigen Augenblick ausrichtest, gewinnst du Zugang zu dieser Kraft.

La salvación no está en otro lugar en el tiempo o en el espacio. Está aquí y ahora.

Nothing ever happened in the past that can prevent you from being present now; and if the past cannot prevent you from being present now, what power does it have?

You cannot find yourself by going into the past. You find yourself by coming into the present.

What you perceive as future is an intrinsic part of your state of consciousness now.

Life isn't as serious as my mind makes it out to be.

compulsion to live almost exclusively through memory and anticipation.

El miedo psicológico del que hablamos siempre se refiere a algo que podría ocurrir, no a algo que ya está ocurriendo.

The pain that you create now is always some form of nonacceptance, some form of unconscious resistance to what is.

Gratitude for the present moment and the fullness of life now is true prosperity. It cannot come in the future. Then, in time, that prosperity manifests for you in various ways.

Waiting is a state of mind. Basically, it means that you want the future; you don't want the present. You don't want what you've got, and you want what you haven't got. With every kind of waiting, you unconsciously create inner conflict between your here and now, where you don't want to be, and the projected future, where you want to be. This greatly reduces the quality of your life by making you lose the present. For

Nauding tekib alati millestki välisest, rõõm sünnib sinust enesest.

the past cannot prevail against the power of the Now.