present-moment

If you allow yourself to experience the present moment, you will discover that it does not get better than this Paradise is here and now, waiting for you to arrive, to accept, to surrender, and to enjoy.

You don__ have to wait until you get to the top of a mountain, to enjoy the view.

No ideals. No illusions. Just reality - but more perfect than you__e ever imagined. That__ what being mindful and living in the present means.

When you're one with being you're one with god.

Mindfulness is not chasing the moment but beautifying the moment.

The standard way of reducing stress in our culture is to put as much energy as possible into trying to arrive at a moment that matches our preferences. This ensures that we feel some level of stress until we get there (assuming we ever will) and worse, it makes the present moment into an unacceptable place to be.

By learning to allow different types of discomfort to simply stay in the room with you, without your scrambling for a button to push (real or metaphorical), you make discomfort matter less.The pool of things you__e afraid of shrinks. It becomes a lot less important to control circumstances, because you know you can handle moments of uncertainty or awkwardness or disappointment without an escape plan.

Our work and educational institutions reinforce this preference for later over now throughout our lives. In school we focus on the ends _ passing the semester, making the grade, or otherwise getting it all behind us _ rather than the present-moment experience of actually learning. As employees, we want the work to be over as soon as it begins. Work culture is driven by quotas, billable hours, budgets, and Gantt charts _ bottom lines of any sort. The value is always somewhere ahead of you, rather than here right now, in the room with you. We__e perpetually looking ahead to a payday or a weekend or some other kind of finish line. Virtually every day of our lives, we__e trained to lean towards something we don__ have, which essentially trains us to be dissatisfied with where we already are.

what is not true does not exist in this moment.

The challenge for mindfulness is to be present for your experience as it is rather than immediately jumping in to change it or try to force it to be different.

Mindfulness is observing the beauty of every moment unfolding before us.

Mindfulness is not chasing the moment but sipping the nectar of the moment.

In every bend of time there is some surprise, joy and beauty. Mindfulness is the light to discover it.

Mindfulness is not entering into another planet. It is making you good at what you do. It is restoring your link to the source of life.

Breathe out unwanted thoughts with your exhale and re-focus your attention directly on what is important right now, at this moment.

Mindful living is a conscious way of living _ noticing the beauty of life in every moment.

Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.

A wise man will know what game to play to-day, and play it. We must not be governed by rigid rules, as by the almanac, but let the season rule us. The moods and thoughts of man are revolving just as steadily and incessantly as nature's. Nothing must be postponed. Take time by the forelock. Now or never! You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this, or the like of this. Where the good husbandman is, there is the good soil. Take any other course, and life will be a succession of regrets. Let us see vessels sailing prosperously before the wind, and not simply stranded barks. There is no world for the penitent and regretful.