Present Moment Quotes

"Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes. " "Do not lose yourself in the past. Do not lose yourself in the future. Do not get caught in your anger, worries or fears. Come back to the present moment." "The present moment is the substance with which the future is made." "The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if we do not go back to ourselves in the present moment, we cannot be in touch with life." "I love being in the moment and enjoying my sport" "The best way to prepare for the future is to live as if there were none" "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." "The art of living... is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging to the past on the other. It consists in being sensitive to each moment, in regarding it as utterly new and unique, in having the mind open and wholly receptive." "Our appointment with life is in the present moment." "The most important practice is the practice of the present moment." "You can live in the here and now and be free of the past." "The real meditation practice is how we live our lives from moment to moment to moment." "Mindfulness is a way of befriending ourselves and our experience." "Mindfulness is not about getting anywhere else." "Too much of our lives takes place in the head, in memory or imagination, in speculation, in projection, in abstraction."