John Benjamin Hickey Quotes

And though some days it is very hard, I try not to live for the future. And I try not to dream of the past.

The past has no power over the present moment.

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

Because I don't live in either my past or my future.I'm interested only in the present".

Let life unfold, say what you mean. You can’t always think about what you’ve lost, or what you don’t have, or what you didn’t get. Because when you do that, you’re missing out on the now. You can’t know if you’ll be here tomorrow or a year from now.

Do not pursue the past. Do not lose yourself in the future. The past no longer is. The future has not yet come. Looking deeply at life as it is. In the very here and now, the practitioner dwells in stability and freedom. We must be diligent today. To wait until tomorrow is too late. Death comes unexpectedly. How can we bargain with it? The sage calls a person who knows how to dwell in mindfulness night and day, 'one who knows the better way to live alone.'

I always live in the present. The future I can't know. The past I no longer have.

If you try to live that which is past, that which IS will bypass you.

Letting go of the past means that you can enjoy the dream that is happening right now.

I'm not sitting somewhere dwelling on the past. I'm not fretting or obsessing about something in the future.

I don't want to sit and look at all the trophies. I don't want to live in the past -- I want to live now!

Whatever you are doing, don't let past move your mind;don't let future disturb you. Because the past is no more, and the future is not yet.

The past is gone-the future is not come. And we are here together, you and I.

Suddenly, you are very much in the present, and you learn it's really the place where you should always live.

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

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

I try, in the present, to not exalt the past because I think that's such a way of diminishing the present. And it's hard to live like that.

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.

My biggest life lesson is that the past is the past. I do my best not to bring history into my present. It ain't ever easy, but it usually creates more opportunity for joyful experiences.

Bliss cannot be found by remembering the past or anticipating the future.

We do not heal the past by dwelling there. We heal the past by living in the present.

The time is now, the place is here. Stay in the present. You can do nothing to change the past, and the future will never come exactly as you plan or hope for.

A man is a fool who sits looking backward from himself in the past. Ah, what shallow, vain conceit there is in man! Forget the things that are behind. That is not where you live. Your roots are not there. They are in the present; and you should reach up into the other life.

The lesson we have yet to learn from dogs, that could sustain us, is that having no apprehension of the past or future is not limiting but liberating.