Pema Chodron Quotes

As long as you're fully present in what you're doing at the moment, you're doing it.

I can disappear into things very easily. But with acting, you have to be in the moment, and it gives me this incredibly fulfilling emotion: being really present.

What I have learned over the years is to try to stay in the moment.

We always project into the future or reflect in the past, but we are so little in the present.

I've known for years that you're supposed to be present. I know that thinking about what's happened or thinking about what I want is not going to get me anywhere, but until I quit doing it I'm not present.

A wonderful acting teacher I love, Josh Pais, has a system I love for being in the moment in acting, but also in life. And one of the things he reminds me of is to take a moment and just be here now.

I live in the present; there is nothing more important than that.

I try to take each moment at a time.

I just want to enjoy every moment and try to be present in the moment of whatever I'm doing at that time.

I try to stay in the moment.

When you sit in a café, with a lot of music in the background and a lot of projects in your head, you're not really drinking your coffee or your tea. You're drinking your projects, you're drinking your worries. You are not real, and the coffee is not real either. Your coffee can only reveal itself to you as a reality when you go back to your self and produce your true presence, freeing yourself from the past, the future, and from your worries. When you are real, the tea also becomes real and the encounter between you and the tea is real. This is genuine tea drinking.

Surrender is surrender to this moment, not to a story through which you interpret this moment and then try to resign yourself to it.

Be truly present in the moment that you are in and don’t let life slip by unnoticed.

Don't be absent from your own life.

I have learned how to observe, far better than most people observe. I am not blinded by the past or motivated by the future. I focus on the present, because that is where I am destined to live.

Don't let your life just go in one eye and out the other.

If you have your full attention in the moment, you will see only love.

Well... ...That's what you always forget, isn't it? I mean, you forget to pay attention to what's happening. And that's the same as not being here and now.

Let me be really here, here in this place and this time where I am.

The miracle of love comes to you in the presence of the uninterpreted moment. If you are mentally somewhere else, you miss real life.

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

You take yourself out of the moment and knock yourself off balance when you judge and think about what you are doing, rather than experiencing and enjoying what you are doing.

That's what yoga teaches: how to be fully present now, no matter the circumstance.

I'm here, and I do my best to be completely centered at the place I'm at, then I go forward to the next place.