Michel de Montaigne Quotes

I try to take each moment at a time.

When you sit in a café, with a lot of music in the background and a lot of projects in your head, you're not really drinking your coffee or your tea. You're drinking your projects, you're drinking your worries. You are not real, and the coffee is not real either. Your coffee can only reveal itself to you as a reality when you go back to your self and produce your true presence, freeing yourself from the past, the future, and from your worries. When you are real, the tea also becomes real and the encounter between you and the tea is real. This is genuine tea drinking.

Be. Here. NOW. Don't forget to breathe. When all else fails, grab a clown nose.

I think we all get too caught up in doing instead of just being sometimes.

I like to be alone. I am focused on what I am doing. I feel the nature and I feel my body. It's so simple.

What I have learned over the years is to try to stay in the moment.

I aspire only to silence.

I'm finally locked into the now, and it's great.

It's all about balance and, I think, being in the moment.

Talk when you talk, walk when you walk, and die when you die.

Life gives you plenty of time to do whatever you want to do if you stay in the present moment.

I look at what's in front of me. I concentrate on that and then hopefully move on.

Whether you call it meditation, self-reflection or just shutting everything out, I am quite good at that.

I live in the present.

At the Cruiserweight Classic finale, I said... I don't know if people had looked it up, or if they had heard it before, but it was an old Zen proverb. 'Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment, you chop wood, carry water.' It can be interpreted a lot of ways, but for the most part it's about staying in the moment.

At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough. No record of it needs to be kept and you don't need someone to share it with or tell it to. When that happens — that letting go — you let go because you can.

Be here. Be present. Wherever you are, be there.

Whatever you do, whatever you're working with, whether it's manual work or talking to people or buying or selling, every little thing encompasses the power and simplicity of presence.

When you are present, you can allow the mind to be as it is without getting entangled in it.

The next message you need is always right where you are.

Here is the Divine Dichotomy... The way to 'get there' is to 'be there'. Just be where you choose to get!' It's that simple.

Don't hurry anything. Don't worry about the future. Don't worry about what progress you're making. Just be entirely content to be aware of what is.

Let me be really here, here in this place and this time where I am.

You don't need a plan; you just need to be present.

There is one thing we can do, and the happiest of people are those who do it to the limit of their ability. We can be completely present.