Browsing Topic Best Be Here Now Quotes

The spiritual journey is individual, highly personal. It can’t be organized or regulated. It isn’t true that everyone should follow one path. Listen to your own truth.

Be here now. It keeps us in a place of love, not fear.

I thought the secret of life was obvious: be here now, love as if your whole life depended on it, find your life’s work, and try to get hold of a giant panda.

We were born ahead of our time. Don’t forget that the riot-grrl scene had a lot to do with making The Slits a legend, and that didn’t happen until the early ’90s. We couldn’t get together before then, because the legend hadn’t been built yet. In the 2000s, we’ve become bigger than life in that way. It’s become really important for The Slits to be here now, but idealistically, we should have done it in the ’90s.

Miniskirts have become quite a fad. They’re even some guys wearing them. Don’t laugh, if you had thought to of that, you’d not be here now.

Be Here Now is all about being present and not fearing what you don’t know.

Mindfulness is not just a word or a discourse by the Buddha, but a meaningful state of mind. It means we have to be here now, in this very moment, and we have to know what is happening internally and externally. It means being alert to our motives and learning to change unwholesome thoughts and emotions into wholesome ones Mindfulness is a mental activity that in due course eliminates all suffering.

I said that I thought the secret of life was obvious: be here now, love as if your whole life depended on it, find your life’s work, and try to get hold of a giant panda. If you had a giant panda in your back yard, anything could go wrong — someone could die, or stop loving you, or you could get sick — and if you could look outside and see this adorable, ridiculous, boffo panda, you’d start to laugh; you’d be so filled with thankfulness and amusement that everything would be O.K. again.

Stop worrying about tomorrow. Stop thinking about yesterday. Mindfulness is to be here now, in the moment. Focus on this moment.

A mind that wants to wander around a corner is an un-wise mind. Now, is, be here now.

Create and preserve the image of your choice.

They used us as an excuse to go mad and then blamed it on us. Gandhi says create and preserve the image of your choice. The image of my choice is not Beatle George – those who want that can go and see Wings. Why live in the past? Be here now.

It is nearly impossible to be here now when you think there is somewhere else to be.

I probably wouldn’t even be here now if it weren’t for chiropractic

Treat everyone you meet like God in drag.

What you meet in another being is the projection of your own level of evolution.

It’s all real and it’s all illusory: that’s Awareness!

Intelligence is the capacity to be in the present. The more you are in the past or are in the future, the less intelligent you are. Intelligence is the capacity to be here-now, to be in this moment and nowhere else. Then you are awake.

If you think you are free, there is no escape possible.

The heart surrenders everything to the moment. The mind judges and holds back.

In most of our human relationships, we spend much of our time reassuring one another that our costumes of identity are on straight.

The most exquisite paradox; as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all.

Every religion is the product of the conceptual mind attempting to describe the mystery.

Remember, Be Here Now.

Be. Here. NOW. Don’t forget to breathe. When all else fails, grab a clown nose.

You just never know with contract situations and the whole business side of it. I’m here now and I’m happy to be here now. The future will take care of itself.

There’s a desire for me in the work, even when I’m looking at the past, to be looking from the present. It’s to be here now. It’s looking in the present tense.