Daniel Kahneman Quotes

We don't really have a place in the universe, as far as on a timeline. But nothing else does, either. Therefore every moment really is the most important moment that's ever happened, including this moment right now.

Your life is what you see in front of you. -An-mei

When you ride in a boat and watch the shore, you might assume that the shore is moving. But when you keep your eyes closely on the boat, you can see that the boat moves. Similarly, if you examine myriad things with a confused body and mind you might suppose that your mind and nature are permanent. But when you practice intimately and return to where you are, it will be clear that there is nothing that has unchanging self.

You start thinking the world is a certain way and forgetting that there's another world outside of the campus boundaries that has nothing to do with what is your world at the time.

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.

The moment rules over everything.

Nothing is guaranteed to last, so you should just enjoy it as it happens.

All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.

A course never quite looks the same way twice. The combinations of weather, season, light, feelings and thoughts that you find there are ever-changing.

Time is only an idea. There is only the Reality. Whatever you think it is, it looks like that. If you call it time, it is time. If you call it existence, it is existence, and so on. After calling it time, you divide it into days and nights, months, years, hours, minutes, etc. Time is immaterial for the Path of Knowledge.

From about 5 years old on, I was very contemplative and started to become constantly filled with nostalgia for the present moment and the feeling that it's always fleeting.

What I have learned over the years is to try to stay in the moment. I want to feel it all because I've realized nothing lasts.

We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.

Life - how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.

There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on the point of view.

The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.

Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death.

The present moment is changing so fast that we often do not notice its existence at all. Every moment of mind is like a series of pictures passing through a projector. Some of the pictures come from sense impressions. Others come from memories of past experiences or from fantasies of the future.

Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.

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.

The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present.

There's nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.

The things we obsess about today, in 40 years seem trivial.

All kingdoms look small through an airplane window - little dominions built on quicksand. But looking up from the ground, where most of us stand, they're rather impressive.

I try to remember our relative insignificance on this planet and that these seemingly important things do not mean quite as much as we think they do.