Quotes About Awareness

Hardly anyone knows how much is gained by ignoring the future.

The Past is gone and the future might not even be, the only thing we ever experience is the now, I try to enjoy the minute.

Thinking about the future and thinking about the past is really only a way of ignoring the present.

True repentance has a double aspect. It looks upon things past with a weeping eye, and upon the future with a watchful eye.

The future belongs to the one most fully alive in the present.

Don't worry about the past and don't try to solve the future.

If, then, my awareness of the past and future makes me less aware of the present, I must begin to wonder whether I am actually living in the real world.

When you have one foot in the future and the other in the past, you piss on the present.

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.

That fear of missing out on things makes you miss out on everything.

I don't want my past to become anyone else's future.

Past is deaf. Future is mute. Present is blind.

What is Zen? Simple, simple, so simple. Infinite gratitude toward all things past; infinite service to all things present; infinite responsibility to all things future.

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.

As people used to be wrong about the motion of the sun, so they are still wrong about the motion of the future. The future stands still, it is we who move in infinite space.

When I look at the world it fills me with sorrow, little children today are really going to suffer tomorrow.

It seems clear to me also that climate change is a problem which can no longer be left to our future generation.

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?