29 Quotes About The-power-of-now

The correct attitude is one where you have no more time to waste. This means that everything is oriented toward the now. The correct attitude is that there is no such thing as an awakening that happens tomorrow. Tomorrows never come. The time is now. You must be sincere. Sincerity and earnestness are the most beneficial attitudes to have. (p. 109)

Let whatever happens, be what needs to happen, so that I may awaken.

Can you allow yourself to be impaled on the present moment?

I kind of feel like making love to you,' she says. 'I mean i want to make up for all of that lost time.' She runs her fingers down my chest all sexy and shit. I chuckle. 'There's no such thing as lost time, Jess. The only thing that is real is the present. Now is all we have—and even now is almost over.

Engage yourself in the living present. The future will take care of itself. Do not worry about the future. (p. 154)

Avoid the temptation to force a moment so you won’t miss the one with your name on it.

Treasure yourself for being, not doing.

The philosopher Descartes believed he had found the most fundamental truth when he made his famous statement: "I think, therefore I am." He had, in fact, given expression to the most basic error: to equate thinking with Being and identity with thinking. The compulsive thinker, which means almost everyone, lives in a state of apparent separateness, in an insanely complex world of continuous problems and conflict, a world that reflects the ever-increasing fragmentation of the mind.

Pain can only feed on pain. Pain cannot feed on joy. It finds it quite indigestible.