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Being is accessible to you now as your own deepest self, your true nature. But don't seek to grasp it with your mind. Don't try… — Eckhart Tolle
Nowness is the essence of meditation. Whatever one does, whatever one tries to practice, is trying to see what is here and now. One becomes… — Chogyam Trungpa
Transformation is not a future event. It is a present activity. — Jillian Michaels
Memory cuts both ways; it can either provide you with tremendous strength and a foundation to carry you through your life, or it can be… — Laurie Halse Anderson
Love requires you to be physically and emotionally present. It also requires that you slow down. — Barbara Fredrickson
...works of piety and charity... are necessary in this present life for as long as inequality prevails. Their workings here would not be required were… — John Cassian
Every instance since the beginning of time has been a coincidence: A leaf in a tree embodies the combined efforts of the earth, water, wind,… — Deepak Chopra
The meaning of life is found in openness to being and "being present" in full awareness. — Thomas Merton
The purpose of the present study is not as it is in other inquiries, the attainment of knowledge, we are not conducting this inquiry in… — Aristotle
GOOD, adj. Sensible, madam, to the worth of this present writer. Alive, sir, to the advantages of letting him alone. — Ambrose Bierce
When contrasted with the much longer time that life has been present, the course of Christianity thus far is but a brief moment. — Kenneth Scott Latourette
Not all Modern Orthodox Jews, at the present juncture, identify with what the Israeli government does. In Israel many religious Zionists strongly oppose the government… — Norman Lamm
God's Providence controls the universe. It is present everywhere. Providence is the sovereign Logos of God, imprinting form on the unformed materiality of the world,… — Anthony the Great
David's Lord was made David's Son, and from the fruit of the promised branch sprang One without fault, the two-fold nature coming together in one… — Pope Leo I
Blessed, plainly, is that life which is not valued at the estimation of outsiders, but is known, as judge of itself, by its own inner… — Ambrose
...although divided in His various powers and energies, in each of His works the Holy Spirit is wholly present and active, undividedly divided, partaken of… — Gregory Palamas
Given that we desire long life, should we not take eternal life into account? If we long for a kingdom which, however enduring, has an… — Gregory Palamas
No one has yet discovered or ever shall discover what God is in His nature and essence... we shall, in time to come, 'know as… — Gregory of Nazianzus
God is present in the moment of choice, not in order to watch but in order to be chosen. Therefore, each person must choose. Terrible… — Soren Kierkegaard
Money is an instrumentality of the profit motive and must be issued and backed only by private enterprisers. Economic and political perversities are inescapable while… — E.C. Riegel
Paul had an almost missionary companion. His name was Demas. Paul wrote his entire history in nine words. He says: Demas has forsaken me, having… — Sterling W Sill
A God who draws near out of love, the Holy Father continued, walks with His people, and this walk comes to an unimaginable point. We… — Pope Francis
So let us ask ourselves this evening, in adoring Christ who is really present in the Eucharist: do I let myself be transformed by him?… — Pope Francis
Just breathing and smiling can make us very happy, because when we breathe consciously we recover ourselves completely and encounter life in the present moment. — Nhat Hanh
Every one of course represents the spirit of his age, but there is an eternal aspect of the Spirit of every age which may be… — Oscar Wilde

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