"Anxiety, the illness of our time, comes primarily from our inability to dwell in the present moment."
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"Be always resolute with the present hour. Every moment is of infinite value."
"Don’t worry about achieving. Don’t worry about perfection. Just be there each moment as best you can."
"All my possessions for a moment of time."
"Be present in your work because kids live in the moment, so as soon as you're not in the present, you're not being authentic."
"You don't know when inspiration is going to come. But you have to be aware of what's going on around you, so that at any moment, when inspiration happens, you're ready for it and you interpret it."
"At any moment the decision you make can change the course of your life forever."
"The memory of a particular image is but regret for a particular moment."
"There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened."
"The best thing about acting is when you're playing a scene and you actually become your character and lose yourself in that moment. That's when you know you've been succeeded at what you've worked very hard to accomplish in your profession. Those are the truly thrilling moments."
"Become friendly with the present moment, because if you do not become friendly with the present moment you cannot become friendly with life."
"Welcome to the present moment. Here. Now. The only moment there ever is."
"When you are not honoring the present moment by allowing it to be, you are creating drama."
"The formless dimension of life is this moment. This moment is timeless and formless - the eternal itself."
"We fear our highest possibility. We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments."
"Be IN it. Get drunk in the moment."
"There is no past. That's another illusion. Everything that has ever happened to you, to me, to anyone in this world, happened in the present moment. That's all there ever is. So your relationship to life isn't your relationship to your past, it's your relationship to the present moment."
"For the moment, what we attend to is reality."
"Be grateful for each moment we have and be happy, but more than anything live it fully."
"Each moment contains a hundred messages from God."