Active Quote by Walter Darby Bannard

The present moment is changing so fast that we often do not notice its existence at all. Every moment of mind is like a…

— Henepola Gunaratana

The moments of the past do not remain still; they retain in our memory the motion which drew them towards the future, towards a…

— Marcel Proust

The past becomes a texture, an ambience to our present.

— Paul Scott

Each moment is defined by a multitude of histories, the past constantly converging upon us, perpetually decaying and reforming itself on the steady pulse…

— Dee Rees

We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is…

— R. D. Laing

Nowness or the magic of the present moment is what joins the wisdom of the past with the present

— Chogyam Trungpa

“The present moment is significant, not as the bridge between past and future, but by reason of its contents -- contents which can fill…

— Dag Hammarskjold

One feels that the past stays the way you left it, whereas the present is in constant movement; it's unstable all around you.

— Tom Stoppard

In the spiritual world there are no time divisions such as the past, present and future; for they have contracted themselves into a single…

— D.T. Suzuki

What we call the present is given shape by an accumulation of the past.

— Haruki Murakami

As modern-day neuroscience tells us, we are never in touch with the present, because neural information-processing itself takes time. Signals take time to travel…

— Thomas Metzinger

We might realize that the present moment may be one of an eternal or sempiternal series of moments, all of which will resemble it…

— John Ashbery