Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.
Transformation is a process, and as life happens there are tons of ups and downs. It's a journey of discovery - there are moments on mountaintops and moments in deep valleys of despair.
Wonder blasts the soul - that is, the spiritual - and the skeleton, the body - the material. Wonder interprets life through the eyes of eternity while enjoying the moment, but never lets the moment's revision exhaust the eternal.
Every moment spent on being jealous at someone else's success, is a moment that could be spent on building one's dream.
Death lasts only a moment, but we think about it every moment. (La mort ne dure qu'un instant, - Mais on y pense chaque instant)
It's interesting if you can talk about the large moments and also the small moments to understand the deepest complexities of a man by trying to imagine who they are.
I would reject the distinction between a Keynesian moment and a behavioral moment.
When you recognize the festive and the still moments as moments of prayer, then you gradually realize that to pray is to live.
You don't choose what you believe moment to moment, but choices you have made do shape what you come to believe.
Love every moment as if every moment is most beautiful. Welcome every event as if every event is so meaningful.
By letting go with gratitude, you are not losing anything, but you are gaining the wisdom, present moment, and future of endless possibilities.
A peaceful mind appreciates the present moment as the living embodiment of naked perfection, rather than a means to future attainment.
My worst moments as a parent have been much like my greatest moments as a parent: the product of complete and perfect accident.
This idea of perpetual happiness is crazy and overrated, because those dark moments fuel you for the next bright moments; each one helps you appreciate the other.
When we look back at life we realize no true moment defined us, but in fact the events leading up to that moment.
The moment you stop trying to become a better person, is the moment you start to become worse than what you already are.
What possible good does it do to resent any moment for unfolding as it does, to wish it didn't happen? Does it change the moment in any positive way? No it does not.
When we contemplate, we realize that one moment is not separate from the other; What we need is to live from one moment to the next, as this is reality of the eternal now.
For me, some of the happiest moments on a live-action film are the awkward moments. One actor says something to another actor. They didn't expect that performance from that actor; that affects their return performance.
We've fallen into a trap of ever-widening orbits of contact, and there is a total disregard for the present moment.
