Presentness Quotes

The river is everywhere at the same time . . . everywhere and the present only exists for it, not the shadow of the past, nor the shadow of the future.

... whatever is not happening now is unimportant; it is merely curious.

Live in the present moment. The past and future are nonexistent. Only the present can be grasped or, better, embraced.

Decisions exist only in the present.

Travel is like a good challenging book: It demands presentness-the ability to live completely in the moment.

It's hard enough just staying in the present. I can't tell you what's going to happen tomorrow.

Let anyone try, I will not say to arrest, but to notice or to attend to, the present moment of time. One of the most baffling experiences occurs. Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.

Only a man who lives not in time but in the present is happy.

tomorrow's gone-we'll have tonight!

When each thing is unique in itself, there can be no comparison made.... There is only this strange recognition of present otherness.

time past and time future what might have been and what has been point to one end, which is always present.

I keep living this day like the next will never come.

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.

I don't look back. I don't look forward. I am totally now.

The art of life is to live in the present moment

Completely desist from defending your point of view. When you have no point to defend, you do not allow the birth of an argument. If you do this consistently - if you stop fighting and resisting - you will fully experience the present, which is a gift. Someone once told me, "The past is history, the future is a mystery, and this moment is a gift. That is why this moment is called 'the present'."

How beautiful life is and how sad! How fleeting, with no past and no future, only a limitless now.

In any weather, at any hour of the day or night, I have been anxious to improve the nick of time, and notch it on my stick too; to stand on the meeting of two eternities, the past and future, which is precisely the present moment; to toe that line.

I don't want to lean back into the past, or forward into the future. I don't want to wish the present moment away.

NOW is the only reality. All else is either memory or imagination.

We can experience nothing but the present moment, live in no other second of time, and to understand this is as close as we can get to eternal life.

God isn't the son of Memory; He's the son of Immediate Experience. You can't worship a spirit in spirit, unless you do it now. Wallowing in the past may be good literature. As wisdom, it's hopeless. Time Regained is Paradise Lost, and Time Lost is Paradise Regained. Let the dead bury their dead. If you want to live at every moment as it presents itself, you've got to die to every other moment.

She thought to herself, "This is now." She was glad that the cozy house, and Pa and Ma and the firelight and the music, were now. They could not be forgotten, she thought, because now is now. It can never be a long time ago.

When anything is present to the mind, what is the very first and simplest character to be noted in it, in every case, no matter how little elevated the object may be? Certainly, it is its presentness .

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.