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Present Quotes by Pema Chodron
- 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…
- 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…
- 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.
- 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…
- One way to practice staying present is to simply sit still for a while and listen. For one minute, listen to the sounds close to…
- If you ask why we meditate, I would say it's so we can become more flexible and tolerant to the present moment.
- Each time you stay present with fear and uncertainty, you're letting go of a habitual way of finding security and comfort.
- Simply be present with your own shifting energies and with the unpredictabilit y of life as it unfolds.
- How do we cultivate the conditions for joy to expand? We train in staying present.
- 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…
- Instead of asking ourselves, 'How can I find security and happiness?' we could ask ourselves, 'Can I touch the center of my pain? Can I…
- 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…
- 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…
- All the terrible things we do to ourselves and others from alcoholism to character assignation to abuse to murder come from one cause: the inability…
- Hope and fear come from feeling that we lack something; they come from a sense of poverty. We can’t simply relax with ourselves. We hold…
- Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can…
- The difference between theism and nontheism is not whether one does or does not believe in God. . . Theism is a deep-seated conviction that…
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