Chris Thile Quotes

Most of the time, if you're not really paying attention, you're someplace else. So your child might say, "Daddy, I want this," and you might say, "Just a minute, I'm busy." Now that's no big deal-we all get busy, and kids frequently ask for attention. But over your child's entire youth, you may have an enormous number of such moments to be really, fully present, but because you thought you were busy, you didn't see the opportunities these moments presented. . . . People carry around an enormous amount of grief because they missed the little things.

So being present becomes more and more the exercise the older you get.

I do think it's important to live in the present because in that way you won't be living in a state of regret.

You lose your habitual behavior, which allowed you to sort of zone out. You have to be here, you have to be now, you have to be present.

The authentic experience, where is that? Living the moment. That is something that we're losing.

Clearing your head of distractions in order to notice and understand the people you are with can feel inefficient - there are so many other people and issues to think about. But being present makes you effective.

I think a lot of times we can get distracted and not be in the moment with people and be missing all the life happening in the moment.

I just like being present.

Having family time to reflect on your day is the best.

I want to feel my life while I'm in it.

To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the making of bread.

Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.

I have an intention to live each moment fully.

If you're living strictly for the future or living in the past, it can make your partner feel neglected. Make yourself focus on the moment you're in.

We tend to rush through life, generally. We don't appreciate the people around us, the relationships we have, or anything.

The experience taught me to be present in the real Buddhist sense of paying attention to the moment.

Listen. Pay attention. Treasure every moment.

Gratitude arises from paying attention, from being awake in the presence of everything that lives within and without us.

Everyone lets the present moment slip by, then looks for it as though he thought it was somewhere else. No one seems to have noticed this fact. But grasping this firmly, one must pile experience upon experience. And once one has come to this understanding he will be a different person from that point on, though he may not always bare it in mind. When one understands this settling into single-mindedness well, his affairs will thin out.

Each moment of life is only as precious as is our ability to attend to it.

In my life as a wife and mother, I'm always conscious of my desire to be present.

I know that the purpose of life is to understand and be in the present moment with the people you love. It's just that simple.

Listen to the silence. Listen to your life. Be present, not just think about what's going on next week, next month.

I travel so much and am always living out of a suitcase, so my favorite saying is 'Wherever you go, there you are'. I love it because it's reassuring to me that you have to live in the moment wherever you happen to be.

Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven't time, and to see takes time - like to have a friend takes time.