62 Quotes About Power-of-now

The emotion is the relative truth of your state of mind at that time. Watch the emotion. You are the watcher, not the emotion.

The greater part of human pain is self-created - some form of unconscious resistance to what *is*. The intensity of the pain depends on the degree of resistance to the present moment, and this in turn depends on how strongly you are identified with your mind.

To be identified with your mind is to be trapped in time. The compulsion arises because the past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whatever form. Both are illusions. Life is Now.

Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live each day as if it's your last. The past is done. The future yet to be made. Be present and live your best life NOW.

You're born again, now, and all is glory and joy. This is what it means to be born again, to realize that you exist now, in this moment. (p. 242)

I'm seduced by the arts in general. Arts is like the power of now.

Jazz music is the power of now.

I cannot tell you any spiritual truth that deep within you don't know already. All I can do is remind you of what you have forgotten.

When you are present, when your attention is fully and intensely in the Now, Being can be felt, but it can never be understood mentally.