Rajneesh Quotes

I try to just stay in the present moment as much as possible.

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.

I live in the present moment.

Listen to the silence. Listen to your life. Be present, not just think about what's going on next week, next month.

Take each day as it comes and focus on the present moment.

I try to live in the moment and let that moment carry me to the next great place.

Instead of 'watching the thinker,' you can also create a gap in the mind stream simply by directing the focus of your attention into the Now. Just become intensely conscious of the present moment. This is a deeply satisfying thing to do. In this way, you draw consciousness away from mind activity and create a gap of no-mind in which you are highly alert and aware but not thinking. This is the essence of meditation.

The experience taught me to be present in the real Buddhist sense of paying attention to the moment.

To live in the present moment is a miracle.

Give your fullest attention to whatever the moment presents.

I think it's so important to have a practice, because the consciousness isn't perfection or enlightenment or any of that bullshit. The consciousness is, "Oh, I'm walking down the street and I'm doing nothing."

When you wash your hands, when you make a cup of coffee, when you're waiting for the elevator - instead of indulging in thinking, these are all opportunities for being there as a still, alert presence.

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.

I've known for years that you're supposed to be present. I know that thinking about what's happened or thinking about what I want is not going to get me anywhere, but until I quit doing it I'm not present.

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life.

I just like being present.

The ability to just sit there. That's being a person.

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

Practice moment to moment non-judgemental awareness.

Nowness is the essence of meditation. Whatever one does, whatever one tries to practice, is trying to see what is here and now. One becomes aware of the present moment through such means as concentrating on the breathing. This is based on developing the knowledge of nowness, for each respiration is unique. It is an expression of now.

The very actions themselves can be a meditation. For me, walking is certainly a meditation if I walk for awhile. First my mind is busy and I'm thinking about different things and after a while that starts to fall away and I start to become very present in the moment. And that feeling of being present in the moment is being. That's when we know we're connecting with being energy.

To live in the moment is truly an art and is truly a talent, because when you live in the moment then you are truly the master of your whole life and you'll have the best times.

The whole world opens when we accept this moment, this very moment.

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.