Browsing Topic Best Present Moment Quotes

The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.

The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.

Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.

The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.

The past has no power over the present moment.

Be in the present moment. Forget about what happened in the past, future is something that is just going to happen. But if you want a better future you create it, take the means in your hands, believe it, create it.

The only way to live is to accept each minute as an unrepeatable miracle, which is exactly what it is: a miracle and unrepeatable.

When you are not honoring the present moment by allowing it to be, you are creating drama.

The art of life is to live in the present moment.

Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.

Stress is caused by being here but wanting to be there, or being in the present but wanting to be in the future. It’s a split that tears you apart inside.

Americans often have trouble enjoying the present moment.

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living.

The future does not exist, because nobody has ever experienced it. You can only ever experience a present moment.

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

As you awaken, the present moment becomes your home. You still play in the world of time, but you’re not identified with the story unfolding there.

One learns the art of dying by learning the art of living: how to become master of the present moment.

There’s only one reason why you’re not experiencing bliss at this present moment, and it’s because you’re thinking or focusing on what you don’t have….But, right now you have everything you need to be in bliss.

The present moment is never intolerable. What’s intolerable is what’s going to happen in the next four hours. To have your body here at 8 pm and your mind at 10:30 pm, that’s what causes us suffering.

The future is carved out of the present moment. Tomorrow’s harvest depends upon today’s ploughing and sowing.

The secret of health for both mind and body is…live the present moment wisely and earnestly.

Life can only take place in the present moment. If we lose the present moment, we lose life.

Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of the present experience. It isn’t more complicated that that. It is opening to or recieving the present moment, pleasant or unpleasant, just as it is, without either clinging to it or rejecting it.

If we do not find happiness in the present moment, in what shall we find it?

Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.

Yoga is a technology for arriving in this present moment. It is a means of waking up from our spiritual amnesia, so that we can remember all that we already know.

The mental suffering you create is always some form of non-acceptance, some form of unconscious resistance to what is. On the level of thought, the resistance is some form of judgement. The intensity of the suffering depends on the degree of resistance to the present moment.

Time is the horizontal dimension of life, the surface layer of reality. Then there is the vertical dimension of depth, accessible only through the portal of the present moment.

Don’t live in the past, don’t ponder about the future, stay at the PRESENT moment NOW…always.

If we can develop the ability to be aware of the present moment, we can use the past as a guide for ordering our actions in the future, so that we may attain our goal.

Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.

Creativity exists in the present moment. You can’t find it anywhere else.

Yoga takes you into the present moment, the only place where life exists.

But you can’t get to any of these truths by sitting in a field smiling beatifically, avoiding your anger and damage and grief. Your anger and damage and grief are the way to the truth. We don’t have much truth to express unless we have gone into those rooms and closets and woods and abysses that we were told not go in to. When we have gone in and looked around for a long while, just breathing and finally taking it in – then we will be able to speak in our own voice and to stay in the present moment. And that moment is home.