Sally Field Quotes

I'm pretty much done with mindfulness. I'm just going to start paying attention.

Being aware in the moment of right now is just the most important thing. All of our issues come from us not being aware enough or not seeing through our problems to the depths of the issues.

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

It's very important for me to be absolutely present in order to be emotional.

The mind is always present. You just don't see it.

Presence is more than just being there.

I can enjoy what I'm engaged in and be fully present rather than planning my answers to questions while someone else is speaking or thinking about my next appointment while my current engagement is still in in progress.

Attention is the key to transformation- and full attention also implies acceptance.

Thought is a man in his wholeness, wholly attending.

The more you expand your awareness, the more naturally you will be present without effort.

Our awareness is the key. It is our awareness more than our work effort that gets the right result right now.

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.

Give your fullest attention to whatever the moment presents.

Everyone lets the present moment slip by, then looks for it as though he thought it was somewhere else. No one seems to have noticed this fact. But grasping this firmly, one must pile experience upon experience. And once one has come to this understanding he will be a different person from that point on, though he may not always bare it in mind. When one understands this settling into single-mindedness well, his affairs will thin out.

Intelligence is the capacity to be in the present. The more you are in the past or are in the future, the less intelligent you are. Intelligence is the capacity to be here-now, to be in this moment and nowhere else. Then you are awake.

What is meditation? It is not your character, it is not what you do. It is what you are. It is not the character, it is the consciousness that you bring to whatsoever you do. The doing is irrelevant. Whether you are doing it consciously or not is the question, whether moral or immoral. Are you alert? If you are alert, meditation happens. If you are not alert, you live in sleep.

Mindfulness means paying attention in a particular way: on purpose, in the present moment, and non-judgmentally.

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

A lot of exercise is mindless; you can have music or the radio on and not be aware. But if you're aware in anything you do - and it doesn't have to be yoga - it changes you. Being present changes you.

Listen to the silence. Listen to your life. Be present, not just think about what's going on next week, next month.

Most humans are never fully present in the now, because unconsciously they believe that the next moment must be more important than this one. But then you miss your whole life, which is never not now.

I always try to stay in the moment, in real life and in acting.

Hackman is able to live in the moment which means there is nothing for him at that split second than what is occurring in the scene.

I don't look ahead. I'm right here with you. It's a good way to be.

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.