Quotes About Consciousness

Mindfulness was experienced as not holding onto the past, the future, or 'nowness:' but relaxing into the immediacy of whatever was happening.

Conditioned Awareness is where we live our lives in guilt over the past and anxiety over the future and never get to experience the present.

I live in the present. I only remember the past, and anticipate the future.

Our mind is always subject to being distracted by thoughts of what happened in the past and ideas of what could happen in the future, but the living experience is what is happening NOW.

The question is not what I should do in the future to get it, but rather, what am I presently doing that prevents me from realizing it right now?

Past and future exist only in our memory. The present moment, though, is outside of time, it's Eternity.

We can will the perfect future into being by becoming microcosms of the perfect future.

I have everything I need to enjoy my here and now - unless I am letting my consciousness be dominated by demands and expectations based on the dead past or the imagined future.

Being fully present is the best guarantee for a bright future.

But blind to former as to future fate, what mortal knows his pre-existent state?

This moment in which you experience stillness is every moment. Don't let the mind seduce you into the past or future. Stay in the moment, and dare to consider that you can be free now.

If you want to know the future, look at what is in your mind

Terror of the future can be put out to pasture with psychedelic shamanism.

We need a new environmental consciousness on a global basis. To do this, we need to educate people.

Reality includes both the past and the future, but existence includes only the present and is totally dependent on the reality of past and future universes. Without them there is no existence now.

Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.

Live in the present. Do the things that need to be done. Do all the good you can each day. The future will unfold

The thoughts you choose to think and believe right now are creating your future. These thoughts form your experiences, tomorrow, next week, and next year.

There are worlds of possibility inherent in our consciousness that can facilitate our own transformation. What future have you imagined for yourself?

The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.

Don't live in the past, don't ponder about the future, stay at the PRESENT moment NOW...always.

To the being of fully alive, the future is not ominous but a promise; it surrounds the present like a halo.

If I say, if I talk about, 'I want to be enlightened...' it implies a future. And there isn't any.

Protecting our future on this planet depends on the conscious evolution of our species.