Quotes About Moment

The scariest moment is always just before you start.

The island's cliffs do not grasp the cloud's shadow The amberdrop cannot hold the wind's sigh Like the cloud, like the wind Your breath takes the moment in Your breath sends it away again

You have to remember one life, one death–this one! To enter fully the day, the hour, the moment whether it appears as life or death, whether we catch it on the inbreath or outbreath, requires only a moment, this moment. And along with it all the mindfulness we can muster, and each stage of our ongoing birth, and the confident joy of our inherent luminosity. (24)

Clearly, all fear has an element of resistance and a leaning away from the moment. Its dynamic is not unlike that of strong desire except that fear leans backward into the last safe moment while desire leans forward toward the next possibility of satisfaction. Each lacks presence. (29)

Until we find out who was born this time around, it seems irrelevant to seek earlier identities. I have heard many people speak of who they believe they were in previous incarnations, but they seem to have very little idea of who they are in this one. . . . Let's take one life at a time. Perhaps the best way to do that is to live as though there were no afterlife or reincarnation. To live as though this moment was all that was allotted. (132)

God is not someone or something separate but is the suchness in each moment, the underlying reality.

The noun of self becomes a verb. This flashpoint of creation in the present moment is where work and play merge.

We kissed, then, and the ardour of her kiss stole my breath away. I returned her passion with all the fervor I possessed. A lifetime of vows and heart-felt disciplines had prepared me well, for in that kiss I sealed with all my soul the fate before me, embracing a mystery clothed in warm and yielding female flesh. Holding only the moment, with neither thought nor care for the future, I kissed her, and drank deep the strong wine of desire.

Live in this moment ... for it is the only moment we have!

When good times turn out way bigger than you first expected, that's when you know you're on a roll!

It's just nice to reflect sometimes and remember the things and people that are making a huge impact at any given moment.

Each minute of my life is brand new and ready to be used.

So, and it is common sense, be in the moment to make things happen in that moment.

I had today so what does tomorrow matter!

How many times do you get to be 35? Eleven

Jonas taps David on the shoulder, ushering

It was very sad to hear that… After the car Kennedy was in… it hesitated and stopped there for a second or two… I

Death is but a moment, cowardice is a lifetime of affliction.

This was the day his life split in two. Her name was Kara.

I looked out my window onto the street, the same street, the same buildings I always see, the windows that stare back at my own; and it was different. The moment was a different moment, of a different now. What I saw from my window was the other Twentieth Century rolling on by my own, like the other branch of a river that's been forked by an island long and narrow and knifelike: the same river but flowing by different shorelines and banks.

What makes human life--which is inseparable from this moment--so precious is its fleeting nature. And not that it doesn't last but that it never returns again.

This will never come again

He made that same turn down that same road. The train station loomed above us. Here's where time slows down for me. It stretches out like a long rubber band, and every single event is stretched out with it.

Everyone here has the sense that right now is one of those moments when we are influencing the future.