The future that we want - this is it. This is the future of all the previous thoughts you've ever had about the future. You're in it. You're already in it. What is the purpose of all this living if it's only to get some place else and then when you're there you're not happy anyway, you want to be some place else. It's always for 'when I retire, ' 'when I graduate college, ' 'when I make enough money, ' 'when I get married, ' 'when I get divorced, ' 'when the kids move out.' It's like, wait a minute, this is it. This is your life. We only have moments. This moment's as good as any other. It's perfect. . Jon KabatZinn
Some moments are nice, some arenicer, some are even worthwritingabout.
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Charles Bukowski
My mind then wandered. I thought of this: I thought of how every day each of us experiences a few little moments that have just a bit more resonance than other moments–we hear a word that sticks in our mind–or maybe we have a small...
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Douglas Coupland
Do you know how there are moments when the world moves so slowly you can feel your bones shifting, your mind tumbling? When you think that no matter what happens to you for the rest of your life, you will remember every last detail of...
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Jodi Picoult
She smiled and said with an ecstatic air: "It shines like a little diamond", " What does?"" This moment. It is round, it hangs in empty space like a little diamond; I am eternal.
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JeanPaul Sartre
Sometimes it's the same moments that take your breath away that breathe purpose and love back into your life.
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Steve Maraboli
More Quotes By Jon KabatZinn
Thought doesn't wrap around awareness. Awareness wraps around thought.
Arriving someplace more desirable at some future time is an illusion. This is it.
Meditation does not involve trying to change your thinking by thinking some more. It involves watching thought itself. The watching is the holding. By watching your thoughts without being drawn into them, you can learn something profoundly liberating about thinking itself, which may help you...
Perhaps the most "spiritual" thing any of us can do is simply to look through our own eyes, see with eyes of wholeness, and act with integrity and kindness.
You might be tempted to avoid the messiness of daily living for the tranquility of stillness and peacefulness. This of course would be an attachment to stillness, and like any strong attachment, it leads to delusion. It arrests development and short-circuits the cultivation of wisdom.
