Pema Chodron Quotes

I don’t live in either my past or my future. I’m interested only in the present. If you can concentrate always on the present, you’ll be a happy man. Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we’re living now.

Live in the present, forget the past. Give up hopes of future.

Let your mind, happily contented with the present, care not what the morrow will bring with it.

Wherever you are is the perfect place to awaken. This moment is the exact place to practice compassion and loving awareness. You have all the ingredients to breathe and find freedom just where you are.

As soon as you honor the present moment, all unhappiness and struggle dissolve.

Accept the present moment without judgement.

I'm trying to be present, not thinking and worrying about the past or the future. That's such a waste of time, you know?

You can wish for things in the future to be different, but in this moment you have to accept things as they are.

But man postpones or remembers; he does not live in the present, but with reverted eye laments the past, or, heedless of the riches that surround him, stands on tiptoe to foresee the future. He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time.

When we enter the present moment deeply, our regrets and sorrows disappear, and we discover life with all its wonders.

Accept that living in the present moment, with your present desires, is the best, the highest thing you can do.

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.

My friend, the sufi is the friend of the present moment. To say tomorrow is not our way.

You have no choice but to live in the present, if you're really being open to events and people as they come along.

If you shift from compulsiveness to consciousness, being joyful will not be an effort.

Don't observe yourself too closely. Don't be too quick to draw conclusions from what happens to you; simply let it happen.

But I don't think of the future, or the past, I feast on the moment. This is the secret of happiness, but only reached now in middle age.

Quit worrying about how everything is going to turn out. Live one day at a time; better yet, make the most of this moment.

The secret of awakening is to unconditionally accept this moment as it is.

Only one person in a thousand knows the trick of really living in the present. Most of us spend fifty-nine minutes an hour living in the past, with regret for lost joys or shame for things badly done (both utterly useless and weakening) or in a future which we either long for or dread. . . . There is only one minute in which you are alive, this minute, here and now. The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle. Which is exactly what it is-a miracle and unrepeatable.

Mindfulness is not about getting anywhere else.

If you are not in alignment with the moment, life is a struggle. Really, all you have to do is take responsibility for your inner alignment with now.

Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.

Engage yourself in the living present. The future will take care of itself.

There is a foundation for our lives, a place in which our life rests. That place is nothing but the present moment, as we see, hear, experience what is. If we do not return to that place, we live our lives out of our heads. We blame others; we complain; we feel sorry for ourselves. All of these symptoms show that we're stuck in our thoughts. We're out of touch with the open space that is always right here.