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- As long as we're caught up in always looking for certainty and happiness, rather than honoring the taste and smell and quality of exactly what…
- The future is completely open and we are writing it moment to moment.
- Come back to square one, just the minimum bare bones. Relaxing with the present moment, relaxing with hopelessness, relaxing with death, not resisting the fact…
- Feelings like disappointment, embarrassment, irritation, resentment, anger, jealousy, and fear, instead of being bad news, are actually very clear moments that teach us where it…
- Now is the only time. How we relate to it creates the future. In other words, if we're going to be more cheerful in the…
- Everything is material for the seed of happiness, if you look into it with inquisitiveness and curiosity. The future is completely open, and we are…
- Welcome the present moment as if you had invited it. Why? Because it is all we ever have.
- Sticking with uncertainty is how we learn to relax in the midst of chaos, how we learn to be cool when the ground beneath us…
- The most heartbreaking thing of all is how we cheat ourselves of the present moment.
- When we are willing to stay even a moment with uncomfortable energy, we gradually learn not to fear it.
- The trick is to keep exploring and not bail out, even when we find out that something is not what we thought. That's what we're…
- Next, feel your heart, literally placing your hand on your chest if you find that helpful. This is a way of accepting yourself just as…
- If you ask why we meditate, I would say it's so we can become more flexible and tolerant to the present moment.
- Welcome the present moment as if you had invited it. It is all we ever have, so we night as well work with it rather…
- Don't worry about achieving. Don't worry about perfection. Just be there each moment as best you can. When you realize you've wandered off again, simply…
- That nothing is static or fixed, that all is fleeting and impermanent, is the first mark of existence. It is the ordinary state of affairs.…
- Meditation accepts us just as we are-in both our tantrums and our bad habits, in our love and commitments and happiness. It allows us to…
- Relaxing with something as familiar as loneliness is good discipline for realizing the profundity of the unresolved moments of our lives. We are cheating ourselves…
- As each breath goes out, let it be the end of that moment and the birth of something new. . .
- This very moment is the perfect teacher, and, lucky for us, it's with us wherever we go.
- Don’t worry about achieving. Don’t worry about perfection. Just be there each moment as best you can.
- Wholeheartedly do what it takes to awaken your clear-seeing intelligence, but one day at a time, one moment at a time. If we live that…
- Every moment is unique, unknown, completely fresh.
- One of the main discoveries of meditation is seeing how we continually run away from the present moment, how we avoid being here just as…
- Just pausing for two to three breaths is a perfect way to stay present. This is a good use of our life. Indeed, it is…
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- We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner… — Aristotle
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- Through my illness I learned rejection. I was written off. That was the moment I thought, Okay, game on. No prisoners. Everybody's… — Lance Armstrong
- I can mention many moments that were unforgettable and revelatory. But the most single revelatory three minutes was the first time I… — David Attenborough
- If you're waiting for the perfect moment, you'll never write a thing because it will never arrive. I have no routine. I… — Margaret Atwood
- Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them. — John James Audubon
- A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment. — Jane Austen
- It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed… — Jane Austen
- Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever. — Paul Auster
- Those of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the bedtime story, when our… — Paul Auster
- When I took the habit, the Lord immediately showed me how He favours those who do violence to themselves in order to… — Teresa of Avila
- What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of… — Sai Baba