Acceptance of the Present Quotes

It is impossible to live in the past, difficult to live in the present and a waste to live in the future.

I don't believe in yesterday, by the way.

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.

I may never be happy, but tonight I am content. Nothing more than an empty house, the warm hazy weariness from a day spent setting strawberry runners in the sun, a glass of cool sweet milk, and a shallow dish of blueberries bathed in cream. When one is so tired at the end of a day one must sleep, and at the next dawn there are more strawberry runners to set, and so one goes on living, near the earth. At times like this I'd call myself a fool to ask for more.

Being present means living without control and always having your needs met.

The present is never a happy state to any human being.

I don't believe in yesterday.

My life is every moment of my life. It is not a culmination of the past.

Florence Farr once said to me, If we could say to ourselves, with sincerity, 'this passing moment is as good as any I shall ever know,' we could die upon the instant and be united with God.

I may never be happy, but tonight I am content.

Enlightenment is finding that there is nothing to find. Enlightenment is to come to know that there is nowhere to go. Enlightenment is the understanding that this is all, that this is perfect, that this is it. Enlightenment is not an achievement, it is an understanding that there is nothing to achieve, nowhere to go. You are already there - you have never been away. You cannot be away from there. God has never been missed. Maybe you have forgotten, that's all. Maybe you have fallen asleep, that's all.

Love finds us where we are, not where we were.

Faith does not need to push the river because faith is able to trust that there is a river. The river is flowing. We are in it.

Which is worse, past or future? Neither. I will fold up my mind like a leaf and drift on this stream over the brink.

This was how I was dealing with everyone and everything lately, taking the good when it came, and the bad the same way, knowing each would pass in its own time.

The rose is a rose from the time it is a seed to the time it dies. Within it, at all times, it contains its whole potential. It seems to be constantly in the process of change: Yet at each state, at each moment, it is perfectly all right as it is.

I pray for faith that my future will be good if I live today well, and in peace. I will remember that staying in the present is the best thing I can do for my future. I will focus on what’s happening now instead of what’s going to happen tomorrow.

Don't move! I want to forget you just the way you are.

It is good to have companions when occasion arises, and it is good to be contented with whatever comes.

The only saving grace of the present is that it's too damned stupid to question the past very closely.

He accepted what each moment brough him, and never troubled himself with matters that were outside his control.

A few times in my life I've had moments of absolute clarity, when for a few brief seconds the silence drowns out the noise and I can feel rather than think, and things seem so sharp. And the world seems so fresh as though it had all just come into existence. I can never make these moments last. I cling to them, but like everything, they fade. I have lived my life on these moments. They pull me back to the present, and I realize that everything is exactly the way it was meant to be.

You can wish for things in the future to be different, but in this moment you have to accept things as they are.

Let's take everything just as it is.