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Quotes About Awareness

The past is no more; the future not yet. Nothing exists except the here and now. Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at our hands.
~ Bruce Lee
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
~ Albert Einstein
We take care of the future best by taking care of the present now.
~ Jon Kabat-Zinn
Engage yourself in the living present. The future will take care of itself.
~ Ramana Maharshi
Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.
~ Carlos Santana
An America that looks away is ignoring not just the sins of the past but the sins of the present and the certain sins of the future.
~ Ta-Nehisi Coates
Don't hurry anything. Don't worry about the future. Don't worry about what progress you're making. Just be entirely content to be aware of what is.
~ Alan Watts
Those who fail to learn from the brutal stompings visited on them in the past are doomed to be brutally stomped in the future.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
If you want to know the past, look at your present. If you want to know the future, look at your present.
~ Gautama Buddha
We are threatened by the now so we jump to the past or the future.
~ Chogyam Trungpa
The future of mankind lies waiting for those who will come to understand their lives and take up their responsibilities to all living things.
~ Vine Deloria Jr.
I always live in the present. The future I can't know. The past I no longer have.
~ Fernando Pessoa
The future is completely open and we are writing it moment to moment.
~ Pema Chodron
Fortune-telling doesn't reveal the future; it mirrors the present. It resonates against what your subconscious already knows and hauls it up out of the darkness so you can get a good look at it.
~ Charles de Lint
The present is where we get lost - if we forget our past and have no vision of the future
~ Ayi Kwei Armah
I think of the past and the future as well as the present to determine where I am, and I move on while thinking of these things.
~ Tadao Ando
But we have reached a turning-point. We must make a decision: shall we remain a child-like people, giving little thought to our Future, till someday we find that we have none?
~ Unknown
Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.
~ Evelyn Waugh
Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day absorb all your interest, energy and enthusiasm. The best preparation for tomorrow is to live today superbly well.
~ William Osler
We can only die in the future, I thought; right now we are always alive.
~ Amy Hempel
If you want to experience eternal illumination, put the past and the future out of your mind and remain within the present moment.
~ Elif Safak
But opinions, judgments, memories, dreaming about the future—ninety percent of the thoughts spinning around in our heads have no essential reality.
~ Joko Beck
I believe it is essential for our planetary future to develop tools that can change the consciousness which has created the crisis that we are in.
~ Stanislav Grof
Human's can't live in the present as animals do; they just live in the present. But human's are always thinking about the future or the past.
~ Townes Van Zandt