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We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time, in which the so-called present moment is felt as nothing but…

— Alan Watts

“How we pay attention to the present moment largely determines the character of our experience and, therefore, the quality of our lives. Mystics and…

— Sam Harris

We live in reference to past experience and not to future events, however inevitable.

— H. G. Wells

In general people experience their present naively, as it were, without being able to form an estimate of its contents; they have first to…

— Sigmund Freud

“We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time, in which the so-called present moment is felt as nothing but…

— Alan Wilson Watts

The pure present is an unattainable advance of the past devouring the future. In truth, all sensation is already memory.

— Anonymous

Surely the memory of an event cannot pass for the event itself. Nor can the anticipation. There is something exceptional, unique, about the present…

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

The pure present is an ungraspable advance of the past devouring the future. In truth, all sensation is already memory.

— Anonymous

We believe that the possibility of the future far exceeds the accomplishment of the past. We review the past with the common sense, but…

— Henry David Thoreau

We think very little of time present; we anticipate the future, as being too slow, and with a view to hasten it onward, we…

— Blaise Pascal

The present is merely a reflection of the past and a solemn future casts a backward glance.

— Samuel Kermis

The present is determined by our past actions, and the future by the present.

— Swami Vivekananda