David Whyte Quotes

If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments.

I just like being present.

I have an intention to live each moment fully.

Be present in all things and thankful for all things.

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

Being thankful helps you to be present.People commit errors because they are not present.I would encourage women and men to be present - you'll avoid falling into certain pits.For instance, if you know that a person has just lost his wife or her husband or lover, it's unlikely that you will say something that will hurt that person's feelings if you're truly paying attention. You'll make a sweeter life for yourself and for those around you if you are present.

If you pay sufficient attention, everything in life is magnificent, everything is a doorway to the Divine.

Living in a chronic state of unawareness can cause us to miss much of what is most beautiful and meaningful in our lives.

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

Put down the weight of your aloneness and ease into the conversation. Pay attention to everything in the world as if it's alive. Realize everything has its own discrete existence outside your story. By doing this, you open to gifts and lessons that the world has to give you.

We have to get back to the beauty of just being alive in this present moment.

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

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.

My life is going at the speed of light, so it's a lot of just trying... to be present in each moment... Giving each situation and each part of life that space and making sure that it's sacred in every aspect.

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

It is possible to experience an awakening in this life through realising just how precious each moment, each mental process, and each breath truly is.

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.

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

When I wake up in the morning, I like to express my gratitude for being on the planet. That gratefulness makes me very present.

Don't take for granted things.

Calvin is a constant reminder that I'm not always as present as I want to be. His go-to state of being is present. So I'm really grateful of that part of being his parent.

You have to live in the present.

Celebration... is self restraint, is attentiveness, is questioning, is meditating, is awaiting, is the step over into the more wakeful glimpse of the wonder - the wonder that a world is worlding around us at all, that there are beings rather than nothing, that things are and we ourselves are in their midst, that we ourselves are and yet barely know who we are, and barely know that we do not know all this.

Gratitude is what we are without a story.

With a practice, we can always remain alive in the present moment. With mindfulness, you can establish yourself in the present in order to touch the wonders of life that are available in that moment.