"Only the moment counts. It determines life."
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"When we are willing to stay even a moment with uncomfortable energy, we gradually learn not to fear it."
"I had a moment of religious epiphanosity."
"There are as many forms of love as there are moments in time."
"Turn you situation over to God because He can do more in a moment than you can do in a lifetime."
"This moment contains all moments."
"The moment you put someone on a pedestal they will look down upon you. The trick is respecting each other equally."
"The moment we begin to celebrate ourselves and focus on our successes is the moment we begin living."
"When you say “yes” to the “isness” of life, when you accept this moment as it is, you can feel a sense of spaciousness within you that is deeply peaceful."
"There are in life a few moments so beautiful,that even words are a sort of profanity."
"Whatever you do in this life, take time to sit quietly and let the world tell you what it needs from you. Take a moment to honestly understand what your gifts are-you have them."
"It's about quieting your mind and getting into certain states where everything outside of you doesn't matter in that moment. There are so many things telling you that you can't do something, but you take those thoughts captive, take power over them and change them."
"If I could, I would stop the passage of time. But hour follows on hour, minute on minute, each second robbing me of a morsel of myself for the nothing of tomorrow. I shall never experience this moment again."
"It’s a shameful moment for U.S. media when it insists on being subservient to the grotesque propaganda agencies of a violent, aggressive state."
"My role - and that is too emphatic a word - is to show people that they are much freer than they feel, that people accept as truth, as evidence, some themes which have been built up at a certain moment during history, and that this so-called evidence can be criticized and destroyed."
"There comes a moment when we all must realize that life is short, and in the end the only thing that really counts is not how others see us, but how God sees us."
"Our lives are composed of a finite set of moments that we choose how to spend."
"Anyone who stands on the edge of the unknown, fully in the present without reference point, experiences groundlessness. That's when our understanding goes deeper, when we find that the present moment is a pretty vulnerable place and that this can be completely unnerving and completely tender at the same time."
"Open yourself and flow, my friend. Flow in the total openness of the living moment."
"Discard everything except these few truths: we can live only in the present moment, in this brief now; all the rest of our life is dead and buried or shrouded in uncertainty. Short is the life we lead, and small our patch of earth."