Quotes About Now

cuanto más capaz sea de honrar y aceptar el Ahora, más libre estará del dolor, del sufrimiento y de la mente egótica.

When you are present, when your attention is fully in the Now, that Presence will flow into and transform what you do. There will be quality and power in it. You are present when what you are doing is not primarily a means to an end (money, prestige, winning) but fulfilling in itself, when there is joy and aliveness in what you do.

El sufrimiento necesita del tiempo; no puede sobrevivir en el Ahora.

Whenever you are waiting, wherever it may be, use that time to feel the inner body. In this way, traffic jams and lines become very enjoyable. Instead of mentally projecting yourself away from the Now, go more deeply into the Now by going more deeply into the body.

ENLIGHTENMENT CONSCIOUSLY CHOSEN means to relinquish your attachment to past and future and to make the Now the main focus of your life. It means choosing to dwell in the state of presence rather than in time. It

Fear is divorced from any concrete and true immediate danger. It is always of something that *might* happen, not of something that is happening now. *You* are in the here and now, while your mind is in the future. This creates an anxiety gap. You cannot cope with something that is only a mind projection.

escoge tener la atención de su conciencia en el presente, más que en el pasado o en el futuro

The whole essence of Zen consists in walking along the razor's edge of Now - to be so utterly, so completely present that no problem. no sutterns. nothing that is not wro you are in your essence, can survive in you. In the Now, in the absence of time, all your problems dissolve. Suffering needs time: it cannot survive in the Now.

Nothing ever happened in the past; it happened in the Now. Nothing will ever happen in the future; it will happen in the Now. The

Morra para o passado a cada instante

Show your friend how to be the observing presence behind her thoughts and her emotions. Tell her about the pain-body and how to free herself from it. Teach her the art of inner-body awareness. Demonstrate to her the meaning of presence. As soon as she is able to access the power of the Now, and thereby break through her conditioned past, she will have a choice.

The moment you realize you are not present, you are present.

Rumi, the great poet and teacher of Sufism, declares: "Past and future veil God from our sight; burn up both of them with fire.

Time isn't precious at all, because it is an illusion. What you perceive as precious is not time but the one point that is out of time: the Now. That is precious indeed. The more you are focused on time — past and future — the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is.

What could be more futile, more insane, than to create inner resistance to something that already is? What could be more insane than to oppose life itself, which is now and always now? Surrender to what is. Say "yes" to life — and see how life suddenly starts working for you rather than against you.

What you refer to as your 'life' should more accurately be called your 'life situation'. Your life situation exists in time. Your life is now. Your life situation is mind stuff. Your life is real.

Always say "yes" to the present moment.

You only experience the present moment, or rather what happens in it. If you go by direct evidence only, then there is no time, and the Now is all there is.

El único lugar donde puede ocurrir un verdadero cambio y donde puede ser disuelto el pasado es en el Ahora.

The eternal present is the space within which your whole life unfolds, the one factor that remains constant. Life is now. There was never a time when your life was not now, nor will there ever be. The Now is the only point that can take you beyond the limited confines of the mind.It is your only point of access into the timeless and formless realm of being .

the present moment is all you ever have. There is never a time when your life is not "this moment.

The future is an imagined Now, a projection of the mind. When the future comes, it comes as the Now.

Body awareness keeps you present. It anchors you in the Now (see chapter 6).

If you delve into the past, it will become a bottomless pit: There is always more. 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. Access the power of Now. That is the key.