The past is set down in a thousand thousand indelible scrolls. But the future is a blank parchment forever in wait of a present.
Andrew LevkoffTag: past future present the-past present-moment
It isn't very logical to live my life on goundless supposition. I have to assume the truth of the moment is the truth of the future. - Leah
Jacquelyn FrankTag: future present-moment logical supposition
If it’s over, then don’t let the past screw up the rest of your life.
Nicholas SparksTag: life past present-moment
The statue of the Laughing Buddha act as a good friend. Whenever we are off the track, his smiling face can bring us back to the present moment, to a positive mood.
Sakshi ChetanaTag: laughter smiling positive-thoughts positive-thinking present-moment laughing-buddha
Because we demand a future, we live each moment in expectation and unfulfillment. We live each moment in passing. In just this way the real nunc stans, the timeless present, is reduced to the nunc fluens, the fleeting present, the passing present of a mere one or two seconds. We expect each moment to pass on to a future moment, for in this fashion we pretend to avoid death by always rushing toward an imagined future. We want to meet ourselves in the future. We don’t want just now—we want another now, and another, and another, tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow. And thus, paradoxically, our impoverished present is fleeting precisely because we demand that it end! We want it to end so that it can thereby pass on to yet another moment, a future moment, which will in turn live only to pass.
Ken WilberTag: spirituality present-moment
Anything which is just born, which has just come into existence, has no past behind it. Birth, in other words, is the condition of having no past. And likewise, anything which now dies, which has just ceased to be, has no future left in front of it. Death is the condition of having no future. But we have already seen that this present moment has both no past and no future simultaneously. That is, birth and death are one in this present moment. This moment is just now being born—you can never find a past to this present moment, you can never find something before it. Yet also, this moment is just now dying — you can never find a future to this moment, never find something after it. This present, then, is a coincidence of opposites, a unity of birth and death, being and non-being, living and dying. As Ippen put it, "Every moment is the last moment and every moment is a rebirth.
Ken WilberTag: death spirituality birth present-moment
The present moment is the substance with which the future is made. Therefore, the best way to take care of the future is to take care of the present moment. What else can you do?
Thich Nhat HanhTag: buddhism inspiration present-moment
There comes a moment in life when one must acknowledge that you just can't keep looking back into your past for reasons to keep someone in your present and future. Regardless of how much looking that cruel reality in the eye hurts...memories can't be enough.
Eiry NievesTag: truth past love relationships memories present-moment hurt-feelings
We have eternity, beloved."
"You may have eternity. I have only now."
"But this is eternity.
Tag: love present-moment
So often, even when we stop to say a blessing before a meal, we’re mentally preparing to spoon some pasta or potatoes onto our plates. We’re not usually focused on the present moment, simply placing ourselves before our food and entering into the still, slow space where eating is done for eating’s sake and not something we do simply to get to the next thing on our list.
Mary DeTurris PoustTag: food faith eating mindfulness present-moment mindful-eating
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