“Our habitual failure to recognise thought as thought, our habitual identification with discursive thought, is the primary source of human suffering.”
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Thich Nhat Hanh
13 quotes“Live the actual moment. Only this actual moment is life.”
Eckhart Tolle
8 quotes“Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life.”
Robert M. Pirsig
5 quotes“The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.”
Osho
5 quotes“Be — don't try to become”
Zhuangzi
4 quotes“Flow with whatever may happen, and let your mind be free: Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the...”
Alan Watts
3 quotes“For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere.”
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...”
Elizabeth Gilbert
3 quotes“The Buddha taught that most problems - if only you give them enough time and space - will eventually wear themselves out...”
Lao Tzu
3 quotes“Stop thinking, and end your problems.”
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.”
Epicurus
3 quotes“The time when you should most of all withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.”
Woody Allen
3 quotes“Showing up is eighty percent of life.”