The science of meditation: it brings you to the present, it brings you to this moment. The past is a thought; it… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“The pain that you create now is always some form of nonacceptance, some form of unconscious resistance to what is. On the… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
From about 5 years old on, I was very contemplative and started to become constantly filled with nostalgia for the present moment… — Alex Ebert Copy Share Image
The difference between theism and nontheism is not whether one does or does not believe in God. . . Theism is a… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
I teach that the foundation for our practice is being able to go inward and disconnect from the busyness of our thoughts,… — James Fox Copy Share Image
Mind without agitation is meditation. Mind in the present moment is meditation. Mind that has no hesitation, no anticipation is meditation. Mind… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
More than anything else, judgment will take you out of the present moment. It will take you out of Oneness into separation.… — Leonard Jacobson Copy Share Image
Acceptance is the magic that makes change possible. It is not forever, it is for the present moment — Melody Beattie Copy Share Image
“And I tell myself at the same time that we're terrible judges of the present moment, maybe because the present doesn't actually… — Juan Gabriel Vásquez Copy Share Image
The nature of the video camera really makes you focus on the present. Since I have always been a diarist filmmaker, not… — Jonas Mekas Copy Share Image
“I hit walls of past pleasure all the time, and for me past pleasure is much harder to process then past pain...for… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
“[author quoting from his journal entry] "To feel safe is to stop living in my head and sink down into my heart… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
The plain message physical science has for the world at large is this, that were our political and social and moral devices… — George Herbert Copy Share Image
When I say forever,' Koschei whispered, 'I mean until the black death of the world. An Ivan means just the present moment,… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“The right direction, if there were such a thing, is looking anywhere without using the mind as a filter. See things as… — John Greven Copy Share Image
“The longness and shortness of the present moment can be recognized by utilizing a big image of the moon, which is reflecting… — Dogen Zenji Copy Share Image
I have learned to accept that, in the present moment at least, things are exactly as they are meant to be, and… — Roz Savage Copy Share Image
When you are in the present moment, you break the continuity of your story, of past and future. Then true intelligence arises,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“We can get so busy doing urgent things and so preoccupied with what comes next that we don't experience now. Afraid of… — Adele Ahlberg Calhoun Copy Share Image
Body awareness not only anchors you in the present moment, it is a doorway out of the prison that is the ego.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
I believe that one reason why the church of God at this present moment has so little influence over the world is… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Nowness or the magic of the present moment is what joins the wisdom of the past with the present — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
To practice Zen means to realize one's existence in the beauty and clarity of this present moment, rather than letting life unravel… — John Daishin Buksbazen Copy Share Image
