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Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today. Read Summary

With mindfulness, you can establish yourself in the present in order to touch the wonders of life that are available in that moment. Read Summary

Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes. Read Summary

It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It's called living. Read Summary

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now. Read Summary

There exists only the present instant... a Now which always and without end is itself new. There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow, but only Now, as it was a thousand years ago and as it will be a thousand years hence. Read Summary

Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to struggle to attain. Read Summary

I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep. Read Summary

Sometimes we look back and 10 years from now we think, 'Boy, those were great old days.' Well, you know, we're living in the good old days. Read Summary

Have you not noticed that love is silence? It may be while holding the hand of another, or looking lovingly at a child, or taking in the beauty of an evening. Love has no past or future, and so it is with this extraordinary state of silence. Read Summary

Hope is the magic carpet that transports us from the present moment into the realm of infinite possibilities. Read Summary

Your entire life only happens in this moment. The present moment is life itself. Yet, people live as if the opposite were true and treat the present moment as a stepping stone to the next moment - a means to an end. Read Summary

Don't wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success. Read Summary

Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live. Read Summary

The answer is, who you are cannot be defined through thinking or mental labels or definitions, because it's beyond that. It is the very sense of being, or presence, that is there when you become conscious of the present moment. In essence, you and what we call the present moment are, at the deepest level, one. Read Summary

It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up. Read Summary

People don't realize that now is all there ever is; there is no past or future except as memory or anticipation in your mind. Read Summary

When you take your attention into the present moment, a certain alertness arises. You become more conscious of what's around you, but also, strangely, a sense of presence that is both within and without. Read Summary

The only thing you ever have is now. Read Summary

You can always cope with the present moment, but you cannot cope with something that is only a mind projection - you cannot cope with the future. Read Summary