T. S. Eliot Quotes

All meditations are nothing but efforts to bring you to the present. When you live in the present moment, with no past hanging around you, with no future projection, you are free from life and death, you are free from body and mind. You are free - simply free - you are freedom.

The real power of the Buddha was that he had so much love. He saw people trapped in their notions of small separate self, feeling guilty or proud of that self, and he offered revolutionary teachings that resounded like a lion's roar, like a great rising tide, helping people to wake up and break free from the prison of ignorance.

Real change isn't found in some new way to think about yourself, but in freedom from the need to think about yourself at all.

Freedom from the wants of the body can help fulfill the needs of the spirit.

Whatever has happened to you in your past has no power over this present moment, because life is now.

When I was able to better live in the moment that I was in, I think that it really freed me.

Every practice at some point will become a hindrance. No practice can ever take you there, to freedom, to liberation. That's important to realize.

Enlightenment is the mind that is open to anything, but attached to nothing. That is freedom. No values, no resentment, no grudges. Not carrying the past along with you. Not carrying memories from the past that are hurtful and shameful and embarrassing. Just let all that go and you are living in enlightenment, and you are free for everything.

There is nothing I have to do, nowhere I have to go, and no way I have to be except exactly the way I am being right now.

Witness your thoughts, moods, and behaviors. They represent your memories of the past, and by witnessing them in the present, you liberate yourself from the past.

Our mind should be free from traces of the past, just like the flowers of spring.

Knowing the cause of something is not going to help you to be free of it.

Letting go gives us freedom and freedom is the only condition for happiness

You don't have to worry about the future, you don't worry about the past - you just explode.

Do not pursue the past. Do not lose yourself in the future. The past no longer is. The future has not yet come. Looking deeply at life as it is. In the very here and now, the practitioner dwells in stability and freedom. We must be diligent today. To wait until tomorrow is too late. Death comes unexpectedly. How can we bargain with it? The sage calls a person who knows how to dwell in mindfulness night and day, 'one who knows the better way to live alone.'

As you walk, you touch the ground mindfully, and every step can bring you solidity and joy and freedom. Freedom from your regret concerning the past, and freedom from your fear about the future.

The past is gone, the future is not here, now I am free of both. Right now, I choose joy.

Meditation is the only magic that can help you to be free from the mind, can help you to be free from yourself, your past and all the burden of the past.

Zen is a way of liberation, concerned not with discovering what is good or bad or advantageous, but what is.

Unbind your mind, there is no time.

Dogs invite us not only to share their joy but also to live in the moment, where we are neither proceeding from nor moving toward, where the enchantment of the past and future cannot distract us, where a freedom from practical desire and a cessation of our usual ceaseless action allows us to recognize the truth of our existence, the reality of our world and purpose--if we dare.

The sage seeks freedom from desire. He does not collect precious things. He learns not to hold on to ideas. He brings men back to what they have lost.

There is a huge amount of freedom that comes to you when you take nothing personally.

Nonresistance, nonjudgment, and nonattachment are the three aspects of true freedom and enlightened living.

And though some days it is very hard, I try not to live for the future. And I try not to dream of the past.