Quotes About Now

No one with a thirst for knowledge goes to the university now. Half of the faculty has resigned, the other half gives courses in advanced ignorance

The correct attitude is one where you have no more time to waste. This means that everything is oriented toward the now. The correct attitude is that there is no such thing as an awakening that happens tomorrow. Tomorrows never come. The time is now. You must be sincere. Sincerity and earnestness are the most beneficial attitudes to have. (p. 109)

There exists only the present instant … a Now which always and without end is itself new. MEISTER ECKHART

Carpe Diem means 'Seize the Day'! Make the BEST of it in Every way! Don't lose a moment, come what may! Forget about tomorrow, Just Live Today!

Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.

No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

Life exists only at this very moment, and in this moment it is infinite and eternal, for the present moment is infinitely small; before we can measure it, it has gone, and yet it exists forever….

I live each day as it comes." "It's the only way. Pedro

I don't believe there's anything in life you can't go back and fix. The ancient Vedas - the oldest Hindu philosophy - and modern science agree that time is an illusion. If that's true, there's no such thing as a past or a future - it's all one huge now. So what you fix now affects the past and the future.

When you wash your hands, when you make a cup of coffee, when you're waiting for the elevator - instead of indulging in thinking, these are all opportunities for being there as a still, alert presence.

We have to change course. And we have to do so now. That is why I worked with my colleagues in Washington to pass the Economic Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

She couldn't explain it except with the word: there . She was there. Present in herself. She wasn't always, so it was worth remarking upon.

I was in an acute case of the present tense. P.30

Lonzi said the only thing worth loving was what was to come, and since what was to come was unforeseeable---only a cretin or a liar would try to predict the future---the future had to be lived now, in the now, as intensity.

Salvation is not simply a matter of escaping the world after death. It is holistic, and it is now (and also later).

The next message you need is always right where you are.

There is neither Past nor Future. There is only the Present.

Mind is like an archaeologist, it can only dissect and research dead things, events on how, when, where & why. It can never be in the NOW. Only BEING is capable to be in the NOW and EXPERIENCE!

The point is there is no point in life! Just live the Moment!

All that matters is what we do with the instant we are given.

On future tellers: I rather live the present than know the future.

Each place is the right place--the place where I now am can be a sacred space. (3)

You just have to live today. And I think one of my New Year's resolutions is definitely trying to stop and live in the moment and cherish it.

Salary arbitration is probably in place - was put in place then and probably is in place now - because I supported it.