80 Quotes About Here-and-now

The Moment is an inch long and a mile deep.

The past and the future are tools of the ego that render us finite. Without our judgments about the past (memories) and without our judgments about the future (expectations), there is only the Here and Now, the eternal present, the timeless time of the Oneness.

Those who recommended mindfulness had it right. ‘Be in the moment’ made complete sense. No past, no future, no worries. Just the here and now, Lyall by her side.

My secret? I stopped chasing — people, situations, substances. When things unfold, I let them. When they don’t, I let them. Instead of chasing the dream, I taught myself how to wake up — as much as possible — in order to be able to live the dream: Here and Now. Hence manifest my own reality. This is how we become at peace and in harmony with the natural flow of the cosmos.

The strange things about growing old is that the intimate identification with the here and now is slowly lost. One feels transposed into infinity, more or less alone.

when you miss how things were before, you miss out living with what is right before you

Truth exists here and now and that's why those who go searching for truth never find it.

The present moment is the only one that matters, and what you are doing right now is as delightful as anything else.

People want the here and now, rather than the there and after; as most are living in the where and what.