Florence Scovel Shinn Quotes

I am living here and now. The blessing of my life is that I am totally concentrating on the present moment. And I want to be because there is nothing but the present moment.

What will happen from now on? It doesn't matter. I can only focus on what's happening to me in this moment.

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 moment is everything. Don't think about tomorrow; don't think about yesterday: think about exactly what you're doing right now and live it and dance it and breath it and be it.

I don't think about the miles that are coming down the road, I don't think about the mile I'm on right now, I don't think about the miles I've already covered. I think about what I'm doing right now, just being lost in the moment.

Too often we spend our time in the past or the future. We need to learn to live now - mentally as well as physically and spiritually.

I don’t live in either my past or my future. I’m interested only in the present. If you can concentrate always on the present, you’ll be a happy man. Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we’re living now.

When we enter the present moment deeply, our regrets and sorrows disappear, and we discover life with all its wonders.

Balance lives in the present. The surest way to lose your footing is to focus on what dreadful things might happen.

Now is all you ever have. There never is anything else. So, you might as well make the now your friend. Otherwise, you are out of alignment with life itself.

If we know that we are now at the point where we have always wanted to be, we will be there. . . because we are never there but always here, now!

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

It is no more possible to live in the future than it is to live in the past. If life is not now, it is never.

Everyone rushes his life on, and suffers from a yearning for the future and a boredom with the present. But that man who devotes every hour to his own needs, who plans every day as if it were his last, neither longs for nor fears tomorrow.

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.

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.

My friend, the sufi is the friend of the present moment. To say tomorrow is not our way.

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.

Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.

Now is the only time. How we relate to it creates the future.

Live in the present. The past is gone; the future is unknown - but the present is real, and your opportunities are now.

The quality of your moments produces the quality of your life. So, as thoughts come and go and the waves of mind rush on, Carpe punctum-Seize this moment. It deserves your full attention, for it will not pass your way again.

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

Only the present moment contains life.

NOW is All There is & the Future is Just Another Present Moment to Live when it Arrives