Robert N. Anthony Quotes

If you can be content right now, then you'll always be content, because it's always right now.

Living in the past or living in the future - those aren't real. The moment is now, and that's where safety and comfort and all that good stuff is.

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.

A way of life that keeps saying 'Around the next corner, above the next step,' works against the natural order of things and makes it so difficult to be happy and good.

It isn't the great big pleasures that count the most; it's making a great deal out of the little ones--I've discovered the true secret of happiness, Daddy, and that is to live in the now. Not to be for ever regretting the past, or anticipating the future; but to get the most that you can out of this very instant.

Without our stories, we are not only able to act clearly and fearlessly, we are also a friend, a listener. We are people living happy lives. We are appreciation and gratitude that have become as natural as breath itself. Happiness is the natural state for someone who knows that there's nothing to know and that we already have everything we need, right here now.

Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it.

As soon as you honor the present moment, all unhappiness and struggle dissolve.

Don't seek happiness. If you seek it, you won't find it, because seeking is the antithesis of happiness. Happiness is ever elusive, but freedom from unhappiness is attainable now, by facing what is rather than making up stories about it.

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 joy?

I’m beginning to think that you don’t find happiness from living your life looking ahead or back… that you find it when you look around.

All you realy need to do is accept this moment fully. You are then at ease in the here and now and at ease with yourself.

But I don't think of the future, or the past, I feast on the moment. This is the secret of happiness, but only reached now in middle age.

The secret of awakening is to unconditionally accept this moment as it is.

No longer forward or behind I look in hope or fear, But grateful, take the good I find, The best of now and here.

Focus on where you are instead of where you wish you were. The joy will follow.

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 Now, you no longer inhabit a world of problems. Challenges you may still face, but they come to you in the space of Now.

My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.

Just stop for a minute and you'll realize you're happy just being. I think it's the pursuit that screws up happiness. If we drop the pursuit, it's right here.

I never think, 'Where am I going to be in a year's time?' That seems to be a sure way of missing the fact that you might be quite happy now.

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.

I don't want to go anywhere; I don't want to leave anybody behind. Happiness is right here, right now, in this world, in this room. I am happiest wherever it is that I am.

Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.

Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes.

I just see what's in front of me. That's what I'm happy with.