Present Moment Quotes
493 Present Moment quotes by 244 unique authors
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One learns the art of dying by learning the art of living: how to become master of the present moment.
— S. N. Goenka
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Meditation is really quite simple. All we have to do is embrace each experience with awareness and open our hearts fully to the present moment.…
— Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
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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…
— Jack Kornfield
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Has it ever struck you ... that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly…
— Eric Kandel
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No particular music makes me feel nostalgic. If it's great, it just keeps me in the present moment. That level of music is like a…
— Wynton Marsalis
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Our appointment with life is in the present moment. If we do not have peace and joy right now, when will we have peace and…
— Nhat Hanh
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Stressful energy arises when you think some future moment is more important than the present moment, and the doing becomes only a means to an…
— Eckhart Tolle
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God is always coming to you in the Sacrament of the Present Moment. Meet and receive Him there with gratitude in that sacrament.
— Evelyn Underhill
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When the basis for your actions is inner alignment with the present moment, your actions become empowered by the intelligence of life itself.
— Eckhart Tolle
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The conjunction of effort, concentration and balance in asana forces us to live intensely in the present moment, a rare experience in modern life.
— B.K.S. Iyengar
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If you have a powerful enlightenment experience, do not try to hold on to it, for to do so will take you out of the…
— Leonard Jacobson
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In the present moment, you are beyond all definition. This means that you are no longer defined by the pain and limitations of the past.…
— Leonard Jacobson
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If your commitment is to being present, then there will come a time when being present becomes your natural state. The present moment becomes your…
— Leonard Jacobson
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Waking up is not serious. It is a gentle remembering and an honoring of the present moment as the truth of life.
— Leonard Jacobson
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The underlying motivation that drives all addiction is our insistence on avoiding pain. However, the pain you are avoiding is based in the past, and…
— Leonard Jacobson
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Projecting into the future with hopes, dreams and desires can never fulfill you. Only the present moment can fulfill you.
— Leonard Jacobson
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Body awareness not only anchors you in the present moment, it is a doorway out of the prison that is the ego. It also strengthens…
— Eckhart Tolle
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Nothing in the past is as powerful as what we choose to do in the present moment.
— Louise Hay
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What kind of thoughts make you feel good? Thoughts of love, appreciation, gratitude, joyful childhood experiences? Thoughts in which you rejoice that you're alive and…
— Louise Hay
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An amazing realization is in the present moment there is only what is, but there are no problems. And if your attention remains in the…
— Eckhart Tolle
Who Wrote These Present Moment Quotes
244 authors contributed a total of 493 Present Moment Quotes, led by these top contributors: