"If there's any possibility for enlightenment, it's right now, not at some future time. Now is the time."
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"Now is the moment that never ends."
"The best poem is that whose worked-upon unmagical passages come closest, in texture and intensity, to those moments of magical accident."
"I suppose that's one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment."
"What moments divine , what rapture serene."
"For all that "I was lost, I am found," it is probably more accurate to say, "I was really lost, I'm a little less so at the moment."
"The moment it begins to question itself, the mind becomes so clear that it starts working with itself rather than with the body's identification."
"Without memories, without hope, they lived for the moment only. indeed, the here and now had come to mean everything to them. For there is no denying that the plague had gradually killed off in all of us the faculty not of love only but even of friendship. Naturally enough, since love asks something of the future, and nothing was left us but a series of present moments."
"How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure!"
"I actually have OCD really bad, and it's getting a bit worse at the moment. I have to check taps... before I leave the house, to make sure I've checked everything in case it floods."
"The moment we fully and vitally realise who and what we are, we then begin to build our own World even as God builds his."
"These moments of escape are not to be despised. They come too seldom."
"At any moment in time, our reality is based on whatever we focus on."
"I don't thrive on the concept of being naked at every possible moment, but it's not the biggest deal in the world to me."
"A state of consciousness is characteristically very transitory; an idea that is conscious now is no longer so a moment later, although it can become so again under certain conditions that are easily brought about."
"If you can get absolutely still for just one moment, you have reached the goal."
"We cannot, in a moment, get rid of habits of a lifetime."
"The moments of the past do not remain still; they retain in our memory the motion which drew them towards the future, towards a future which has itself become the past, and draw us on in their train."
"Sustaining a loving heart, even for a moment, makes one a spiritual being."
"There is no moment without some duty."