The Now Quotes

The background of samsara is bliss

Be aware of yourself without thinking or looking in the mirror

For people like us, looking towards the future can feel daunting. It can literally make us feel sick to the stomach and often induces panic attacks. Trust me, I’ve been there; I get it. That’s why the far-future should never be at the top of our “to-plan” list. It’s alright to have goals but to stress ourselves out with plans and options and worries of the future is a good way to drive us crazy. However, there is one time when I want you to consider the future. Always have something to look forward to.

Water doesn't know where it's going to flow, it just flows.

Stop digging up the past, lay down your shovel, the past is dead.

The mind never has anything new to say-all it knows is of the past.

without the bombardment of thoughts, the truth will emerge through intuition.

The wind plays its own music.

Don't respond when the mind snaps its fingers.

We choose our present moment. The choices we make here and now is what shape our reality tomorrow.

If there's one thing I can say when it's my time to look back over my glorious life is I lived, bravely and fiercly in the chaos of it all.

Some people masturbate to temporarily replace their partners when they are absent, whereas some people do that to temporarily live in the present.

Taoism as the "art of being in the world," for it deals with the present—ourselves. It is in us that God meets with Nature, and yesterday parts from to-morrow. The Present is the moving Infinity, the legitimate sphere of the Relative. Relativity seeks Adjustment; Adjustment is Art. The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.

The real You is hidden beneath the mental noise in Your head.

Beauty brings us back to the now.