Theo James Quotes

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

I try to just stay in the present moment as much as possible.

I live in the present moment.

I've known for years that you're supposed to be present. I know that thinking about what's happened or thinking about what I want is not going to get me anywhere, but until I quit doing it I'm not present.

When you are present, the world is truly alive.

Take each day as it comes and focus on the present moment.

When you are here and now, sitting totally, not jumping ahead, the miracle has happened. To be in the moment is the miracle.

It's a wonderful thing to perceive the world and to interact with it and with other people and nature from that deep place of utter stillness, where the compulsion to immediately label and interpret whatever arises around you is no longer there.

You can't think about presence, and the mind can't understand it. Understanding presence is being present.

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

I try to live in the moment, every moment.

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

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

I have an intention to live each moment fully.

That's such a common saying: Just be present, live in the moment. But there's actually really something to it when you really start to learn it.

I'm not trying to be efficient; I'm trying to be present.

My focus is to try to appreciate the present moment more and more and more.

Don't think too hard. Just be present, and things will reveal themselves.

If the mind wants to comprehend reality, it will have to come out of the past and the future. But coming out of the past and the future, it is no longer the mind at all. Hence the insistence of all the great masters of the world that the door to reality is no-mind.

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

Being aware in the moment of right now is just the most important thing. All of our issues come from us not being aware enough or not seeing through our problems to the depths of the issues.

Meditation is not concentration. It is simple awareness. You simply relax and watch the breathing. In that watching, nothing is excluded. The car is humming - perfectly okay, accept it. The traffic is passing - that's okay, part of life. The fellow passenger snoring by your side, accept it. Nothing is rejected. You are not to narrow down your consciousness.

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

When you get into your car, after you close the door, pause for a few seconds and observe the flow of your breath. Become aware of a silent but powerful sense of presence.