Neale Donald Walsch Quotes

Be in this moment, and free yourself of striving for something more or someone else.

Look at the sparrows; they do not know what they will do in the next moment. Let us literally live from moment to moment.

I'm trying not to put pressure on myself to decide what to do at this moment, and just sort of go with what's happening.

Don't focus on the outcome, when you focus on the outcome it creates anxiety and it builds. I just need to enjoy the moment and let it be. If I just fight I know I'm going to go out there and perform and do it my best. Don't focus on winning or losing.

I try to live in the moment and let that moment carry me to the next great place.

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

True freedom is living as if you had completely chosen whatever you feel or experience in this moment. This inner alignment with the Now is the end of suffering.

Meditation is not concentration. It is simple awareness. You simply relax and watch the breathing. In that watching, nothing is excluded. The car is humming - perfectly okay, accept it. The traffic is passing - that's okay, part of life. The fellow passenger snoring by your side, accept it. Nothing is rejected. You are not to narrow down your consciousness.

Enlightenment is understanding that there is nowhere to go, nothing to do, and nobody you have to be except exactly who you're being right now.

All you realy need to do is accept this moment fully. You are then at ease in the here and now and at ease with yourself.

I literally have no idea what's to come. I try to just stay in the moment.

So, in meditation practice, the best way to get somewhere is to let go of trying to get anywhere at all.

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

I might say: if the place I want to get to could only be reached by way of a ladder, I would give up trying to get there. For the place I really have to get to is a place I must already be at now. Anything that I might reach by climbing a ladder does not interest me.

You don't have to worry about the future, you don't worry about the past - you just explode.

Wherever you are is always the right place. There is never a need to fix anything, to hitch up the bootstraps of the soul and start at some higher place. Start right where you are.

What would it be like if I could accept life--accept this moment--exactly as it is?

That is the basic pattern of this kind of meditation, which is based on three fundamental factors: first, not centralizing inward; second, not having any longing to become higher; and third, becoming completely identified with here and now.

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

I have always wanted to live in the present and never the past.

We hit a stride where all self-consciousness disappeared.

That's when the great stuff happens, when you're not checking yourself all the time, being critical of yourself and what other people are doing.

Just stop for a minute and you'll realize you're happy just being. I think it's the pursuit that screws up happiness. If we drop the pursuit, it's right here.

I'm not anxious to be anywhere other than where I am right now.

In my personal opinion, you miss out on the beauty of the moment if you go in planning what the moment is. It's like having a vacation too jam-packed with activities. You miss all of the sunsets.