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Present Quotes by Jack Kornfield
- When repeated difficulties do arise, our first spiritual approach is to acknowledge what is present, naming, softly saying 'sadness, sadness', or 'remembering, remembering', or whatever.
- When we let go of our battles and open our hearts to things as they are, then we come to rest in the present moment.…
- When we come into the present, we begin to feel the life around us again, but we also encounter whatever we have been avoiding. We…
- Whatever your difficulties - a devastated heart, financial loss, feeling assaulted by the conflicts around you, or a seemingly hopeless illness - you can always…
- Only in the reality of the present can we love, can we awaken, can we find peace and understanding and connection with ourselves and the…
- Most of us have spent our lives caught up in plans, expectations, ambitions for the future; in regrets, guilt or shame about the past. To…
- No matter what situation we find ourselves in, we can always set our compass to our highest intentions in the present moment
- The present moment is really all that we have. The only place you can really love another person is in the present. Love in the…
- To become mindful … present … is really the invitation to work with the joys and the sorrows of the world, and to do so…
- Within the mystery of life there is the infinite darkness of the night sky lit by distant orbs of fire, the cobbled skin of an…
- When we let go of our battles and open our heart to things as they are, then we come to rest in the present moment.…
More Present Quotes
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds and business.… — Mary Astell
- I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as knowledge something… — Margaret Atwood
- Confine yourself to the present. — Marcus Aurelius
- Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today… — Marcus Aurelius
- The further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder it will be to understand… — Diane Ackerman
- What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of… — Sai Baba
- A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught… — Ibrahim Babangida
- An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect… — Irving Babbitt
- Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present. — Roger Babson
- Having experienced personally and through my family the tragedy of Chile is something always present in my memory. I do not want… — Michelle Bachelet
- In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present. — Francis Bacon