Present Quotes

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The great piano virtuoso Paderewski was once playing before an audience of the rich and the royal. After a brilliant performance, an elegant lady waxed… — Eric Butterworth
He who negates present society, and seeks social conditions based on the sharing of property, is a revolutionary whether he calls himself an anarchist or… — Johann Most
At any moment the fully present mind can shatter time and burst into Now. — David Steindl-Rast
If your relationship to the present moment is not right - nothing can ever be right in the future - because when the future comes… — Eckhart Tolle
The very desire to seek spiritual enlightenment is in fact nothing but the grasping tendency of the ego itself, and thus the very search for… — Ken Wilber
To think that practice and realization are not one is a heretical view. In the Buddha Dharma, practice and realization are identical. Because one's present… — Unknown Author
In a true you-and-I relationship, we are present mindfully, nonintrusively, the way we are present with things in nature.We do not tell a birch tree… — David Richo
Being present, whether with children, with friends, or even with oneself, is hard work. But isn't this attentiveness - the feeling that someone is trying… — Stephen Grosz
Mindfulness is like a microscope; it is neither an offensive nor defensive weapon in relation to the germs we observe through it. The function of… — Chogyam Trungpa
Accept that living in the present moment, with your present desires, is the best, the highest thing you can do. — Deepak Chopra
Every present moment will offer itself as a window onto eternity, a doorway to the infinite. — Deepak Chopra
In your present-moment awareness, awaken to your innocence, your trust, your love, your eternal being. — Deepak Chopra
Welcome to the present moment. Here. Now. The only moment there ever is. — Eckhart Tolle
We must overthrow the material and moral conditions of our present-day life. . . . We must first purify our atmosphere and completely transform the… — Mikhail Bakunin
At present I answer about 100 letters a month, and read 300 emails. — Piers Anthony
We could present spatially an atomic fact which contradicted the laws of physics, but not one which contradicted the laws of geometry. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
I think that you have to present an image that is... true to you, and... the way you would like to be perceived, so I… — Kristanna Loken
As artists, we belong to an ancient and holy tribe. We are the carriers of the truth that spirit moves through us all. When we… — Julia Cameron
A man may go into the field and say his prayer and be aware of God, or he may be in Church and be aware… — Meister Eckhart
No heaven can come to us unless our hearts find rest in today. No peace lies in the future which is not hidden in this… — Giovanni Giocondo

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