Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant; all the rest of his life is either past and gone, or not yet revealed.
Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
Reality is myself, reality is only the perception of this instant and it can't be related to another person.
You don't know when inspiration is going to come. But you have to be aware of what's going on around you, so that at any moment, when inspiration happens, you're ready for it and you interpret it.
The only time you'll ever have is now.
Most of us take for granted that time flies, meaning that it passes too quickly. But in the mindful state, time doesn't really pass at all. There is only a single instant of time that keeps renewing itself over and over with infinite variety.
I suddenly understood that a photograph could fix eternity in an instant.
Every moment is unique, unknown, completely fresh.
The past cannot remember the past. The future can't generate the future. The cutting edge of the instant right here and now is always nothing less than the totality of everything there is.
The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the 'pure' experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
Gold is a wonderful clearer of the understanding; it dissipates every doubt and scruple in an instant.
Each time a friend dies, the present becomes the past, in an instant.
The only thing that matters is the choice you are making now--this very instant.
A sketch book freezes time. It is an instantaneous form of meditation focusing us on the worth of every passing moment.
Forever is made up of nows.
it is better to be a part of beauty for one instant and then cease to exist than to exist forever and never be a part of beauty
And for an instant, I fantasized about wrapping my arms around her right then and there.
The song instantly insisted it'd never existed.
The Truth is realized in an instant; the Act is practiced step by step.
Existence begins in every instant.
A joke that works is complete knowledge in a nanosecond.
"No" is just a moment in time.
And for the briefest instant, it almost feels like we're together again.
Fashion is not about before, it’s not about after, it’s about now
I think that the dehumanization of another person can happen in the matter of an instant.
