Quotes on Live In The Moment

Awareness is like the sun. When it shines on things, they are transformed.

We spend precious hours fearing the inevitable. It would be wise to use that time adoring our families, cherishing our friends and living our lives.

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

The future hasn't happened yet and the past is gone. So I think the only moment we have is right here and now, and I try to make the best of those moments, the moments that I'm in.

Tomorrow is the first day of the rest of our lives.

Today is the blocks with which we build.

When I read a story, I relive the moment from which it sprang. A scene burned itself into me, a building magnetized me, a mood orseason of Nature's penetrated me, history suddenly appeared to me in some tiny act, or a face had begun to haunt me before I glanced at it.

You are only here now; you're only alive in this moment.

By watching the mechanics of the mind, you step out of its resistance patterns, and you can then allow the present moment to be.

When you have an intense contact of love with nature or another human being, like a spark, then you understand that there is no time and that everything is eternal.

We have entered a new phase of culture - we may call it the Age of the Cinema - in which the most amazing perfection of scientific technique is being devoted to purely ephemeral objects, without any consideration of their ultimate justification. It seems as though a new society was arising which will acknowledge no hierarchy of values, no intellectual authority, and no social or religious tradition, but which will live for the moment in a chaos of pure sensation.

In today's rush we all think too much, seek too much, want too much and forget about the joy of just Being.

Pick the day. Enjoy it - to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come... The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present - and I don't want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.

The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.

Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.

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.

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

You are not 'in the now;' you are the now. That is your essential identity-the only thing that never changes. Life is always now. Now is consciousness. And consciousness is who you are. That's the equation.

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living.

Life is what happens to you while you're planning on doing something else.

We had to learn...that it did not really matter what we expected from life but rather what life expected from us.