Pema Chodron Quotes

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of the moment that create your future. The outline of your future path already exists, for you created its pattern by your past.

We all must live our lives always feeling, always thinking the moment has arrived.

There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man's whole life is a succession of moment after moment. If one fully understands the present moment, there will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue. Live being true to the single purpose of the moment.

If you abandon the present moment, you cannot live the moments of your daily life deeply.

I'm in the moment. I'm always in the moment of life.

I have an intention to live each moment fully.

Only the human heart can live in present moment awareness. The human mind cannot, because its essential nature is to ponder the past and plan the future. This is why all wise beings encourage us to go beyond the mind into the timeless, boundless transcendence of heart-centered awareness.

Awareness requires living in the here and now, and not in the elsewhere, the past or the future.

Whatever happens, whatever you experience, feel, think, do - it's always now. It's all there is. And if you continuously miss the now - resist it, dislike it, try to get away from it, reduce it to a means to an end, then you miss the essence of your life, and you are stuck in a dream world of images, concepts, labels, interpretations, judgments - the conditioned content of your mind that you take to be yourself.

Begin where you are. Read every word, every phrase, every paragraph of the mind, as it operates through thought.

Live the actual moment. Only this moment is life.

The fullness of life is only accessible in the present moment.

Now is the only time. How we relate to it creates the future.

Bring awareness to each act. Walking on the road, walk fully alert; eating, eat with awareness. Whatsoever you are doing, don't let the past and the future interfere. Be in the present. That's what awareness is all about.

The future is the result of what we do right now.

Be here now. It keeps us in a place of love, not fear.

I'm here, and I do my best to be completely centered at the place I'm at, then I go forward to the next place.

The only reality is in the moment. What you are doing counts.

Life is a series of moments. The quality of attention and action that we bring to each moment determines the quality of our lives.

You simply have to surrender to the present moment. Be alert. Watch something in a state of alertness. Always, continuously, bring that into everyday life, not spirituality here and getting on with your life there.

Much as we wish, not one of us can bring back yesterday or shape tomorrow. Only today is ours, and it will not be ours for long, and once it is gone it will never in all time be ours again. Thou only knowest what it holds in store for us, yet even we know something of what it will hold. The chance to speak the truth, to show mercy, to ease another’s burden. The chance to resist evil, to remember all the good times and good people of our past, to be brave, to be strong, to be glad.

While the mind lives in the past and the future, the body lives in the now.

Every single moment shapes our future. Be intentional. Live on purpose!

Living in the present moment creates the experience of eternity.