Shunryu Suzuki Quotes

Just do you. Go with the flow and with your life because that's you experiencing life. You being yourself is you doing your purpose, so the more we get out of the mindset of thinking there's a certain way to go about things, the more free we become.

I don't think you go out of style when you're living in the present most of the time. And I think that is what I do.

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.

We do not think of life - we live it. We do not think of ourselves too much. We do not think of others too much... We just behave in a natural way.

There is nothing I have to do, nowhere I have to go, and no way I have to be except exactly the way I am being right now.

I'm trying not to put pressure on myself to decide what to do at this moment, and just sort of go with what's happening.

Surrender is the path to freedom through our unique authenticity, where we experience the flow of life not through the narrow lens of the mind, but through the vast refuge of the heart.

Don't always worry about what your next line is supposed to be. There is no script. Live your life. Be in this moment.

I felt that I was really living in the moment. I did not know where my life was going, but right now the future did not trouble me.

Looking for happiness is a sure way to sadness, I think. You have to take each moment as it comes.

I take deep breaths and be true to my heart.

Usually, people have a tendency to be caught in the worries concerning the future or in the regret concerning the past. There is some kind of energy that is pushing them to run, and they are not able to establish themselves in the present moment.

The future is keeping you out of the present time.

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

I want to stay true to who I am by trying to be in the moment.

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

Just stop for a minute and you'll realize you're happy just being. I think it's the pursuit that screws up happiness. If we drop the pursuit, it's right here.

One thing I've learned to do with my age, I really don't look ahead. For years, I've been preaching the precious present and having to always subscribe to it.

Sometimes in the past when I was going to perform a piece again I would listen to old recordings and try to reproduce the material. This time I realized that carrying around old information, trying to get everything in, and still be in the moment just doesn't work.

I've realized that no problem is as hopeless as it first may seem, I've learned how to live day to day and show others how to do the same, and most of all, I've learned how to just be.

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.

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

There's nothing I miss about anything in the whole wide world. The idea of missing something means you're not living in the moment. Every moment is good for something.

You have to live in the present; not on memories.

Everybody just wants to appreciate time as it's passing, to be in the moment. It's the hardest thing to do. You're either in the unknown future that you're working toward, or you're in the past that becomes a little abstract.