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Life is a succession of moments. To live each one is to succeed. Corita Kent

What we are talking about is learning to live in the present moment, in the now.
When you aren't distracted by your own negative thinking, when you don't allow
yourself to get lost in moments that are gone or yet to come, you are left with
this moment.  This moment--now--truly is the only moment you have.  It is beautiful
and special.  Life is simply a series of such moments to be experienced one right
after another.  If you attend to the moment you are in and stay connected to your
soul and remain happy, you will find that your heart is filled with positive feelings.

Sydney Banks

On Arturo Toscanini's eightieth birthday, someone asked his son, Walter,
what his father ranked as his most important achievement.  The son replied,
"For him there can be no such thing.  Whatever he happens to be doing at the moment
is the biggest thing in his life-- whether it is conducting a symphony or peeling an orange."

Ardis Whitman

We do not remember days, we remember moments.

Cesare Pavese

Hold to the now, the here,
through which all future plunges to the past.

James Joyce

Hugh Prather

The passing moment is all we can be sure of;
it is only common sense to extract its utmost value from it.

W. Somerset Maugham

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I have the happiness of the passing moment,
and what more can mortal ask?

George R. Gissing

Susan L. Taylor

If we really want to live, we'd better start at once to try;
If we don't, it doesn't matter, we'd better start to die.

Wystan Hugh Auden

Every person's life lies within the present, for the past is
spent and done with, and the future is uncertain.

Marcus Antonius

A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener.  So
our prospects brighten on the influx of greater thoughts.  We
should be blessed if we lived in the present always, and took
advantage of every accident that befell us, like the grass which
confesses the influence of the slightest dew that falls on it; and
did not spend our time in atoning for the neglect of past opportunities,
which we call doing our duty.  We loiter in winter while it is already spring.

Henry David Thoreau

Do we need to make a special effort to enjoy the beauty of the blue sky?
Do we have to practice to be able to enjoy it?  No, we just enjoy it.
Each second, each minute of our lives can be like this.
Wherever we are, any time, we have the capacity to enjoy the sunshine,
the presence of each other, even the sensation of our breathing.
We don't need to go to China to enjoy the blue sky.
We don't have to travel into the future to enjoy our breathing.
We can be in touch with these things right now.

Thich Nhat Hanh

To be reborn hourly and daily in this life, we need to die--to give of ourselves wholly to the
demands of the moment, so that we utterly "disappear."  Thoughts of past, present, or
future, of life and death, of this world and the next, are transcended in the superabundance
of the now.  Time and timelessness coalesce:  this is the moment of eternity.  Thus our
every act is a matter either of giving life or taking it away.  If we perform each act with
total absorption, we give life to our life.  If we do things half-heartedly, we kill that life.

Philip Kapleau

There is only the moment.  The now.  Only what you are experiencing at this second is real.
This does not mean you live for the moment.  It means you live in the moment.

Leo Buscaglia