Being in the Present Quotes

Too often we spend our time in the past or the future. We need to learn to live now - mentally as well as physically and spiritually.

I live in the present. I only remember the past, and anticipate the future.

How can we live if there is no more here and everything is now?

They had no past. They had no future. They just were.

You have to be present, awake and happy now.

I believe in being fully present. That means you should be with the person you’re with.

It's so easy to get caught up in the future and in the past.

In this moment, there is plenty of time. In this moment, you are precisely as you should be. In this moment, there is infinite possibility.

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.

Begin where you are. Read every word, every phrase, every paragraph of the mind, as it operates through thought.

When you start worrying about form, then you're not in the moment.

Just try to live in moment as much as you can each pitch, not worry about what happened after the past has happened.

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.

Present-moment living, getting in touch with your now, is at the heart of effective living. When you think about it, there really is no other moment you can live. Now is all there is, and the future is just another present moment to live when it arrives.

It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.

This is your here, this is your now, let it be magical!

The purpose of meditation is to create focus. It is about focusing your attention on your experience. The reason for focus: it allows you to be here now. Your only reality is This Moment, right here, right now. Peace is found in such awareness.

I don't think you go out of style when you're living in the present most of the time. And I think that is what I do.

We always live at the time we live and not at some other time, and only by extracting at each present time the full meaning of each present experience are we prepared for doing the same thing in the future.

To live in the moment is truly an art and is truly a talent, because when you live in the moment then you are truly the master of your whole life and you'll have the best times.

Being is accessible to you now as your own deepest self, your true nature. But don't seek to grasp it with your mind. Don't try to understand it. You can know it only when the mind is still. When you are present, when your attention is fully and intensely in the Now, Being can be felt, but it can never be understood mentally.

How sweet it would be to treat men and things, for an hour, for just what they are!

I live now and only now, and I will do what I want to do this moment and not what I decided was best for me yesterday.