Wayne Dyer Quotes

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.

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.

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

If the mind wants to comprehend reality, it will have to come out of the past and the future. But coming out of the past and the future, it is no longer the mind at all. Hence the insistence of all the great masters of the world that the door to reality is no-mind.

Zen is a liberation from time. For if we open our eyes and see clearly, it becomes obvious that there is no other time than this instant, and that the past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.

I love the fact that the present is the only real reality we have.

Time past and time future allow but a little consciousness. To be conscious is not to be in time.

I always live in the present. I don’t know the future and no longer have the past. The former oppresses me as the possibility of everything, the latter as the reality of nothing.

The past is no more and the future is not yet. The only right person is one who lives moment to moment, whose arrow is directed to the moment, who is always here and now; wherever he is, his whole consciousness, his whole being, is involved in the reality of here and in the reality of now.

There is neither past nor future. There is only the present. Yesterday was the present to you when you experienced it, and tomorrow will be also the present when you experience it. Therefore, experience takes place only in the present, and beyond experience nothing exists.

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.

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

Most humans are never fully present in the now, because unconsciously they believe that the next moment must be more important than this one. But then you miss your whole life, which is never not now.

People don't realize that now is all there ever is; there is no past or future except as memory or anticipation in your mind.

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

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.

Your entire life only happens in this moment. The present moment is life itself. Yet, people live as if the opposite were true and treat the present moment as a stepping stone to the next moment - a means to an end.

Unless one is able to live fully in the present, the future is a hoax.

Past, present, and future is where I'm at.

You can't really live in the past because the present is always present.

Organismic awareness is awareness of the Present only - you can't taste the past, smell the past, see the past, touch the past, or hear the past. Neither can you taste, smell, see, touch or hear the future. In other words, organismic consciousness is properly timeless, and being timeless, it is essentially spaceless.

Forget the past. You can never predict what the future is going to be. Live for the moment.

The present moment dies every moment to become the past , is reborn every moment into the future. All experience is now. Now never ends.

Yet it's not for want of future that I'm here, he thought. It's for want of a present.

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