Being in the Present Moment Quotes

I always live in the present. I don’t know the future and no longer have the past. The former oppresses me as the possibility of everything, the latter as the reality of nothing.

That's such a common saying: Just be present, live in the moment. But there's actually really something to it when you really start to learn it.

I don't carry the burden of the past or the madness of the future. I live in the present.

The most powerful state for a human to be in is the state of embracing completely the reality of what is - Now. It is to say "Yes" to life, which is now and always now. There is a vast power in that "Yes," that state of inner non-resistance to what is.

I think it's very important to live in the present. One of the great things that improvising teaches you is the magic of the moment that you're in because, when you improvise, you're in right now. You're not in yesterday or tomorrow - you're right in the moment.

The future is keeping you out of the present time.

The real enemies of our life are the 'oughts' and the 'ifs.' They pull us backward into the unalterable past and forward into the unpredictable future. But real life takes place in the here and now.

When you are present, when your attention is fully and intensely in the Now, Being can be felt, but it can never be understood mentally.

I don't think you go out of style when you're living in the present most of the time. And I think that is what I do.

Sam: For once in my life, I was here and nowhere else.