“Not knowing how to feed the spirit, we try to muffle its demands in distraction...What matters is that one be for a time inwardly attentive.”
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Thich Nhat Hanh
13 quotes“The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it. (21)”
Eckhart Tolle
8 quotes“Rather than being your thoughts and emotions, be the awareness behind them.”
Robert M. Pirsig
5 quotes“To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.”
Osho
5 quotes“There is no other space, no other time. This moment is all. In this moment the whole existence converges, in this moment...”
Zhuangzi
4 quotes“In the midst of darkness, he alone sees the dawn; in the midst of the soundless, he alone hears harmony.”
Sam Harris
3 quotes“Habitual identification with discursive thought is the source of human suffering”
Louis L'Amour
3 quotes“Few of us ever live in the present. We are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what has gone.”
Wayne W. Dyer
3 quotes“Now is all we have. Everything that has ever happened to you and anything that is ever going to happen to you is just...”
Rumi
3 quotes“Don't make the body do what the spirit does best, and don't put a big load on the spirit that the body could easily carr...”
Alan Watts
3 quotes“For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere.”
Woody Allen
3 quotes“Showing up is eighty percent of life.”
Elizabeth Gilbert
3 quotes“The Buddha taught that most problems - if only you give them enough time and space - will eventually wear themselves out...”