Peter Matthiessen Quotes

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

If you move in the present moment, the whole eternity is in your hands.

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

The primary purpose of life is in being in the NOW.

Welcome to the present moment. Here. Now. The only moment there ever is.

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.

When you start worrying about form, then you're not in the moment.

A part of me is always envious of people who live in the present and are sustained by a sense of spontaneity. Even dogs have that capacity: they're always wanting to participate in something, and I don't often have that element in me.

When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.

I like to stay in the moment.

Die to the past every moment. You don't need it. Only refer to it when it is absolutely relevant to the present. Feel the power of this moment and the fullness of Being. Feel your presence.

The moment is all there is now. All there is is now. That's what God is, too. God is only now.

Don’t worry about achieving. Don’t worry about perfection. Just be there each moment as best you can.

Forget all your learnings - just remember that NOW is the moment that never ends

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

He didn't remember, he didn't worry, he just was.

When you are here and now, sitting totally, not jumping ahead, the miracle has happened. To be in the moment is the miracle.

Stop thinking of what you intend to do. Stop thinking of what you have just done. Then, stop thinking that you have stopped thinking of those things. Then you will find the Now, the time that stretches eternal, and is really the only time there is.

You breathe in and out; you breathe in and you breathe out, and you live one moment into the next moment, and then time goes by, and you find you're able to put one foot in front of the other.

Remember, Be Here Now.

Nothing ever happened in the past that can prevent you from being present now, and if the past cant prevent you from being present now, what power does it have?

Consciousness means choicelessness, and to be choiceless is to be free from all desire, is to be free from all projection, is to be free from all imagination, is to be free from future.

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.

The answer to how to live is to stop thinking about it.