Robert Powell Quotes

I believe, every day, you should have at least one exquisite moment.

On the way to work, concentrate on the way - not the work.

Recognize joy when it arrives in the plain brown wrappings of everyday life.

Every single moment is expressive of the truth of our lives when we know how to look.

You do not have to pursue something intensely; you as a being should become very intense.

I learned at a very young age that music teaches you about life. When you're in the midst of improvisation, there is no yesterday and no tomorrow — there is just the moment that you are in. In that beautiful moment, you experience your true insignificance to the rest of the universe. It is then, and only then, that you can experience your true significance.

Live in the moment. Moments make history.

All you realy need to do is accept this moment fully. You are then at ease in the here and now and at ease with yourself.

When you are no more identified with your physicality, you become available to Grace.

Nothing ever happened in the past that can prevent you from being present now, and if the past cant prevent you from being present now, what power does it have?

Life is now in session. Are you present?

In basketball - as in life - true joy comes from being fully present in each and every moment, not just when things are going your way. Of course, it's no accident that things are more likely to go your way when you stop worrying about whether you're going to win or lose and focus your full attention on what's happening right this moment.

God is not interested in our spiritual life. He's interested in our life.

Life is more complicated than we think, yet far simpler than anyone dares to imagine

Do not try to be special. If you are simply ordinary, more ordinary than others, you will become extraordinary.

Every moment is incredibly unique and fresh, and when we drop into the moment, as meditation allows us to do, we learn how to truly taste this tender and mysterious life that we share together.

Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.

I just live my life and try to be present. When I'm present in the moment and something comes, I can capture it, because it doesn't come from me, it's out there.

Truth comes when your mind and heart are purged of all sense of striving and you are no longer trying to become somebody; it is there when the mind is very quiet, listening timelessly to everything.

Live today. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Just today. Inhabit your moments. Don't rent them out to tomorrow.

If you walk through life with ease and without any sense of entanglement, that is maturity.

Experiencing the present purely is being empty and hollow; you catch grace as a man fills his cup under a waterfall.

If you clean the floor with love, you have done an invisible painting. Live each moment in such delight that it gives you something inner.

Give up defining yourself - to yourself or to others. You won't die. You will come to life. And don't be concerned with how others define you. When they define you, they are limiting themselves, so it's their problem. Whenever you interact with people, don't be there primarily as a function or a role, but as the field of conscious Presence. You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.

Be happy in the moment, that's enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.