Gary Zukav Quotes

We always live at the time we live and not at some other time, and only by extracting at each present time the full meaning of each present experience are we prepared for doing the same thing in the future.

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.

I really don't look at my past and I really don't look too much to the future because I find that's sort of redundant. I really live right in the present. I live right in the now.

The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if we do not go back to ourselves in the present moment, we cannot be in touch with life.

Engage yourself in the living present. The future will take care of itself.

Every moment of your experience is the peak of life experience. This is where your powerful now is.

To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future - it is not necessarily having to focus on the present.

I am a person who likes to be in the present.

But man postpones or remembers; he does not live in the present, but with reverted eye laments the past, or, heedless of the riches that surround him, stands on tiptoe to foresee the future. He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time.

Kyra Sedgwick told me, 'Keep your heart where your feet are' and that's incredibly difficult to do. It takes a lot of concentration. You've got to be conscientious of each other.

Die to the past every moment. You don't need it. Only refer to it when it is absolutely relevant to the present. Feel the power of this moment and the fullness of Being. Feel your presence.

Too often we spend our time in the past or the future. We need to learn to live now - mentally as well as physically and spiritually.

I don’t live in either my past or my future. I’m interested only in the present. If you can concentrate always on the present, you’ll be a happy man. Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we’re living now.

We know how to sacrifice ten years for a diploma, and we are willing to work hard to get a job, a car, a house, and so on. But we have difficulty remembering that we are alive in the present moment, the only moment there is for us to be alive.

When we enter the present moment deeply, our regrets and sorrows disappear, and we discover life with all its wonders.

Balance lives in the present. The surest way to lose your footing is to focus on what dreadful things might happen.

Wherever you are, be all there." I have lived the runner, panting ahead in worry, pounding back in regrets, terrified to live in the present, because here-time asks me to do the hardest of all: just open wide and receive.

Always remember to bound thy thoughts to the present occasion.

Live in the present, forget the past. Give up hopes of future.

If we know that we are now at the point where we have always wanted to be, we will be there. . . because we are never there but always here, now!

You must live fully in the now to make your dreams come true.

Best to take the moment present as a present for the moment. . .

We all spend so much time worrying about the future that the present moment slips right out of our hands. And so all we have left is retrospection and anticipation, retrospection and anticipation. In which case what's left to recall but past anticipation? What's left to anticipate but future retrospection?

I try to live in the moment and let that moment carry me to the next great place.

You can't live at all unless you can live fully now.