Prem Rawat Quotes

She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.

If I am incapable of washing dishes joyfully, if I want to finish them quickly so I can go and have dessert, I will be equally incapable of enjoying my dessert. With the fork in my hand, I will be thinking about what to do next, and the texture and flavor of the dessert, together with the pleasure of eating it, will be lost. I will always be dragged into the future, never able to live in the present moment.

I have an intention to live each moment fully.

If only, then, I had been more living out of the present--such a beautiful word...present. The sense of it being, now to me, more beautiful than 'to look forward.

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

Listen. Pay attention. Treasure every moment.

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.

Sometimes we are only aware of how happy we are when the moment has passed. But now and again, if we are very lucky, we are aware of happiness when it is actually happening.

Every moment a gift: are you unwrapping yours now, and now, and now?

Life is not made up of minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, or years, but of moments. You must experience each one before you can appreciate it.

Be grateful for each moment we have and be happy, but more than anything live it fully.

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

It is so easy to waste our lives: our days, our hours, our minutes. It is so easy to take for granted the pale new growth on an evergreen, the sheen of the limestone on Fifth Avenue, the colour of our kids’ eyes, the way the melody in a symphony rises and falls and disappears and rises again. It is so easy to exist instead of live. Unless you know there is a clock ticking.

Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.

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.

With mindfulness, you can establish yourself in the present in order to touch the wonders of life that are available in that moment.

Don't let anything sneak past you. Don't say, 'Well, oh, I'll take a picture and put it in my photograph album.' I notice it now. I love it now. And I am grateful for it now.

I always try to live in the 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.

Learn how to enjoy where you are on the way to where you're going.

It's all a matter of paying attention, being awake in the present moment, and not expecting a huge payoff. The magic in this world seems to work in whispers and small kindnesses.

I'd like to be the sort of person who can enjoy things at the time, instead of having to go back in my head and enjoy them.

Be truly present in the moment that you are in and don’t let life slip by unnoticed.

Living in the moment brings you a sense of reverence for all of life’s blessings.

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.