Quotes About Moment

On another occasion

Thirteen minutes after I took him off the ventilator

I had seen the procedure done. Now it was my turn to try.

The patient gave me a look.

once trouble occurred everything unfolded almost automatically:

I handed her the needle and stepped aside.

He hesitated before going on.

At any rate it seems unlikely that there is any truth in the rumour as I have just this moment invented it.

Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.

I know now: what is is all that matters. Not the thing you know is meant to be, not what could be, not what should be, not what ought to be, not what once was. Only the is.

Time moves only forward, never back. We look forward to a moment and then it arrives and an instant later it is gone. Like something on the surface of a river that we reached for but did not touch in time and it carried on, away. You cannot be a prisoner of your past against your will. Because you can only live in the past inside your mind.

You must hang onto the scraps of the bucking moment as if your sanity and life depended on it - because actually they do.

You will either do so convincingly and well, or you won't. But at least you will be plugged in to the moment in the process. Not flitting just outside of it, trying to keep everything together like one of those little heel-snapping Sheltie dogs.

Trying is not the same as being. Trying flies in a circle around the moment and *being* is inside of it.

You have been the one encounter in my life that can never be repeated

Joy is the goal of existence, and joy is not to be stumbled upon, but to be achieved, and the act of treason is to let its vision drown in the swamp of the moment's torture.

A moment or an eternity—did it matter? Life, undefeated, existed and could exist.

It's only a matter of getting through the next few moments, she thought: take care of the next few moments, and then the next, a few at a time, and after a while it will be easier; you'll get over it, after a while.

She thought that they had not greeted each other and that it was right. This was not a reunion, but just one moment out of something that had never been interrupted. She thought how strange it would be if she ever said "Hello" to him; one did not greet oneself each morning.

It seemed natural; natural to the moment's peculiar reality that was sharply clear, but cut off from everything, immediate, but disconnected, like a bright island in a wall of fog, the heightened, unquestioning reality one feels when one is drunk.

Even In The Most Difficult Situations, When You Focus On What Is Right In The Present Moment, It Makes You Happier, Today. And It Gives You The Needed Energy And Confidence To Deal With What Is Wrong.

The Present Is Not The Past And It Is Not The Future. The Present Is The Present Moment! The Present Is Right Now!

They sit together, physically separate but utterly connected by the moment they've created

Then, in far less time than it takes to tell - - The blip is gone - - But the wonderment begins - -