Sam Harris Quotes

Well... ...That's what you always forget, isn't it? I mean, you forget to pay attention to what's happening. And that's the same as not being here and now.

If you have your full attention in the moment, you will see only love.

Instead of 'watching the thinker,' you can also create a gap in the mind stream simply by directing the focus of your attention into the Now. Just become intensely conscious of the present moment. This is a deeply satisfying thing to do. In this way, you draw consciousness away from mind activity and create a gap of no-mind in which you are highly alert and aware but not thinking. This is the essence of meditation.

The quality of your moments produces the quality of your life. So, as thoughts come and go and the waves of mind rush on, Carpe punctum-Seize this moment. It deserves your full attention, for it will not pass your way again.

Life is a series of moments. The quality of attention and action that we bring to each moment determines the quality of our lives.

The level of consciousness you choose to tune in to each moment of each day will determine the quality of your experience of the world.

Presence is more than just being there.

Anytime you put your mind on the results, you lose something in the moment.

The quality of one's life depends on the quality of attention. Whatever you pay attention to will grow more important in your life. There is no limit to the kinds of changes that awareness can produce.

Don't let your life just go in one eye and out the other.

Bring awareness to each act. Walking on the road, walk fully alert; eating, eat with awareness. Whatsoever you are doing, don't let the past and the future interfere. Be in the present. That's what awareness is all about.

The quality of our attention determines our experience.

I believe in being fully present. That means you should be with the person you’re with.

When the mind is full of memories and preoccupied by the future, it misses the freshness of the present moment. In this way, we fail to recognize the luminous simplicity of mind that is always present behind the veils of thought.

In any given moment we are either practicing mindfulness, or defacto, we are practicing mindlessness.

The only time that any of us have to grow or change or feel or learn anything is in the present moment. But we're continually missing our present moments, almost willfully, by not paying attention.

I know I can walk through the world, along the shore or under the trees, with my mind filled with things of little importance, in full self-attendance. A condition I can't really call being alive.

Slow down, totally. You have to slow down and pay attention to everything.

Mindfulness means paying attention in a particular way: on purpose, in the present moment, and non-judgmentally.

Presence is not some exotic state that we need to search for or manufacture. In the simplest terms, it is the felt sense of wakefulness, openness, and tenderness that arises when we are fully here and now with our experience.

That is why those who are not capable of being there in the present moment, they don't really live their life - they live like dead people.

Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer.

We are so distracted and focused on what's next, we can fail to see what is actually in front of us.

The best way to prepare for any moment in the future is to be fully conscious in the present.

The reality is there is only each present moment: You are called to give a talk. You get out of a building and into a car. You look out of the window. You arrive at the venue. You sit in the chair; you wait; you step out onto the stage. Every movement is simple. There is only that.