Jim Bishop Quotes

The future is keeping you out of the present time.

We always project into the future or reflect in the past, but we are so little in the present.

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

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.

I am only at home in the present.

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.

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.

With thoughts of the past and concerns about the future, we rob ourselves of a full experience of the present.

I don't carry the burden of the past or the madness of the future. I live in the present.

You have to live in the present, I think.

Live in the present, forget the past. Give up hopes of future.

We all spend so much time worrying about the future that the present moment slips right out of our hands. And so all we have left is retrospection and anticipation, retrospection and anticipation. In which case what's left to recall but past anticipation? What's left to anticipate but future retrospection?

The time is now, the place is here. Stay in the present. You can do nothing to change the past, and the future will never come exactly as you plan or hope for.

But I dare not think too far into the future on the risk that I'll miss the present.

The best gift we can have is living in the present moment and really enjoying it for what it is; and, not being in our heads and getting sidetracked.

To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future - it is not necessarily having to focus on the present.

My life is every moment of my life. It is not a culmination of the past.

You have to like the present; if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future.

People sacrifice the present for the future. But life is available only in the present. That is why we should walk in such a way that every step can bring us to the here and the now.

I guess I'm living in the present more than the past.

I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.

The real enemies of our life are the 'oughts' and the 'ifs.' They pull us backward into the unalterable past and forward into the unpredictable future. But real life takes place in the here and now.

To pin your hopes upon the future is to consign those hopes to a hypothesis, which is to say, a nothingness. Here and now is what we must contend with.

People who live in the past generally are afraid to compete in the present. I've got my faults, but living in the past is not one of them. There's no future in it.

Winners live in the present tense. People who come up short are consumed with future or past. I want to be living in the now.