I have everything I need to enjoy my here and now-unless I am letting my consciousness be dominated by demands and expectations based on the dead past or the imagined future.
And there is neither beginning nor end, nor past nor future; there is only a present, at the same time static and ephemeral, multiple and absolute. It is the vital ocean in which we all share, according to our strength, our needs or our desires.
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Anonymous
When one was full of energy and enthusiasm the world was an apple, the future was way beyond the horizon and only the present was pertinent.
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Jeff Tikari
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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Bertolt Brecht
Bringing people into the here-and-now. The real universe. That's the present moment. The past is no good to us. The future is full of anxiety. Only the present is real--the here-and-now. Seize the day.
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Saul Bellow
Walking along past the store windows, into which she peers with her usual eagerness, her usual sense that maybe, today, she will discover behind them something that will truly be worth seeing, she feels as if her feet are not on cement at all but...
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Margaret Atwood
More Quotes By Ken Keyes
Happiness is experienced when your life gives you what you are willing to accept.
To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have.
We always have enough to be happy if we are enjoying what we do have- and not worrying about what we don't have.
People who postpone happiness are like children who try chasing rainbows in an effort to find the pot of gold at the rainbow's end.... Your life will never be fulfilled until you are happy here and now.
I have everything I need to enjoy my here and now-unless I am letting my consciousness be dominated by demands and expectations based on the dead past or the imagined future.
