Quotes About Awareness

I don't think in the past. I don't think in the future. You grasp the moment.

We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment deal only with the present moment.

When you're poor, you know nothing about the future, you know nothing about the world, nothing that goes on outside 300 yards around you.

Since the past is unreal and the future is unreal, all your thoughts are about nothing.

The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.

To shed the past, forget the future and fall into the moment feet first.

Think about our dilemma on this planet. If the expansion of consciousness does not loom large in the human future, what kind of future is it going to be?

Within this moment, the only moment that exists, the past, present and future are contained.

Do not follow after the past; do not go forward to meet the future. Instead, just rest the mind naturally in the present awareness.

If you give the future all your attention, the present will pass you by.

People don't realize that now is all there ever is; there is no past or future except as memory or anticipation in your mind.

See things in the present, even if they are in the future.

How can I know anything about the past or the future, when the light of the Beloved shines only Now.

I will live in the past, the present, and the future. The spirits of all three shall strive within me.

A mind that worries about the past is distracted, and a mind that worries about the future is delusional.

The future doesn't exist. It hasn't happened yet. The past doesn't exist. It has already happened.

Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.

Your body exists in the past and your mind exists in the future. In yoga, they come together in the present.

To abandon the present in order to look for things in the future is to throw away the substance and hold onto the shadow.

Future generations may well have occasion to ask themselves, "What were our parents thinking? Why didn't they wake up when they had a chance?" We have to hear that question from them, now.

If you are at peace, you are living in the present.

Focus on the future for 50%, on the present for 40%, and on the past for 10%

Time past and time future allow but a little consciousness. To be conscious is not to be in time.

The future does not exist, because nobody has ever experienced it. You can only ever experience a present moment.