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“We are vulnerable to fear only when we leave the present. If I drift into the past, my regrets surge up, my memories of failing and forsaking. If I shift into the future, I meet with doubt and delusion, fear of what's to come, what I'm not capable of controlling. It's in the present moment that I belong.”

Ifs Moments Past Fear Memories Doubt Failing Regret Future Capable Vulnerable Delusion Present Moment

Author:Jan Phillips

“Stale artifacts of the past' are always 'active components of the present moment' when they are experienced in the present moment.”

Moments Past Tradition Active Present Moment Components Stale Artifacts

Author:Walter Darby Bannard

“How often are you worrying about the present moment? The present moment is usually all right. If you're worrying, you're either agonizing over the past which you should have forgotten long ago, or else you're apprehensive over the future which hasn't even come yet. We tend to skip over the present moment which is the only moment God gives any of us to live.”

Ifs Giving Should Long Moments Past Worry Should Have Forgotten Present Moment Long Ago Over The Past Skip Agonizing

Author:Peace Pilgrim

“I have memories - but only a fool stores his past in the future.”

Source: A Covenant of Justice: Trackers, Book Two

“We might realize that the present moment may be one of an eternal or sempiternal series of moments, all of which will resemble it because, in some ways, they are the present, and won't in other ways, because the present will be the past by that time.”

Way May Moments Might Past Realizing Eternal Series Present Moment

Author:John Ashbery

“To practice Zen means to realize one's existence in the beauty and clarity of this present moment, rather than letting life unravel in useless daydreaming of the past and future.”

Mean Moments Past Realizing Existence Beauty Practice Future Clarity Useless Present Moment Daydreaming

Book:Zen Meditation in Plain English

Source: Zen Meditation in Plain English

“The grief of a child is always terrible. It is bottomless, without hope. A child has no past and no future. It just lives in the present moment - wholeheartedly. If the present moment spells disaster, the child suffers it with his whole heart, his whole soul, his whole strength, his whole little being.”

Ifs Heart Children Littles Soul Whole Moments Past Suffering Grief Terrible Disaster Present Moment Spells Live In The Present Just Live Without Hope Wholeheartedly

Author:Maria Franziska von Trapp

“I live in the present moment and easily release all past pain.”

Moments Pain Past Release Present Moment Live In The Present Past Pain

Author:Louise Hay

“The past has no power over us. It doesn't matter how long we have had a negative pattern. The point of power is in the present moment. What a wonderful thing to realize! We can begin to be free in this moment!”

Long Matter Moments Past Realizing Wonderful Negative Patterns Present Moment Wonderful Things

Book:You Can Heal Your Life Gift

Source: You Can Heal Your Life Gift

“If you want to experience eternal illumination, put the past and the future out of your mind and remain within the present moment.”

Ifs Want Mind Moments Past Eternal Forty Present Moment Illumination

Author:Elif Safak

“Usually, people have a tendency to be caught in the worries concerning the future or in the regret concerning the past. There is some kind of energy that is pushing them to run, and they are not able to establish themselves in the present moment.”

People Kind Moments Running Able Past Energy Worry Regret Caught Tendencies Pushing Present Moment

Author:Nhat Hanh