Paz de la Huerta Quotes

There is only the moment. The now. Only what you are experiencing at this second is real.

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.

And since the now is all there ever is in your life, your entire life unfolds as the present moment. People don't realize it, but all they ever have is "this". This moment.

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.

The only time you'll ever have is now.

If, then, my awareness of the past and future makes me less aware of the present, I must begin to wonder whether I am actually living in the real world.

The living moment is everything.

The ego does not, cannot live in the present, because the present is real and the ego is false - they never meet.

NOW is the only reality. All else is either memory or imagination.

There is no past. That's another illusion. Everything that has ever happened to you, to me, to anyone in this world, happened in the present moment. That's all there ever is. So your relationship to life isn't your relationship to your past, it's your relationship to the present moment.

Although she had resisted this knowledge all her life, had lived determinedly in the future focused there by ambition, she understood at last that this was the real condition of humanity: The dance of life occurred not yesterday or tomorrow, but only here at the still point that was the present. This truth is simmple, sel-evident, but difficult to accept, for we sentimentalize the past and wallow in it, while we endure the moment and in every waking hour dream of the future.

Life is only available in the present moment.

The present moment is all you ever have. There is never a time when your life is not 'this moment.' Is this not a fact?

As long as we have some definite idea about or some hope in the future, we cannot really be serious with the moment that exists right now.

Survival starts by paying attention to what is close at hand and immediate. To look out with idle hope is tantamount to dreaming one's life away.

How can we live if there is no more here and everything is now?

The only thing that is ultimately real about your journey is the step that you are taking at this moment. That's all there ever is.

The fact that I am standing there and washing bowls is a wondrous reality. I'm being completely myself, following my breath, conscious of my presence, and conscious of my thoughts and actions.

The reality consists only of now, the present. It has nothing to do with the past and nothing to do with the future. It is so concentrated in this moment that if you can be in this moment, all that you are seeking and searching will be fulfilled. This moment is the door to the divine.

The past exists only in our memories, the future only in our plans. The present is our only reality.

Nobody really lives in the present.

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

I've always been someone who's really tried to live in the here and now. My memory isn't very good so maybe that's why, but it just seems like I've been living this life, my current chapter, for a really long time and I don't really remember what it was like before. It's just been sort of ingrained in me. What I deal with day to day.

If the present is really all we have, then the present lasts forever.

Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.