Now is all there is and all we truly have

• This is the only moment we can experience. Louise Hay
• The present is the past biting into the future. Edwin Land
• Nothing keeps. There is one law in the universe: NOW. Alfred Sutro
• The future was with Fate. The present was our own. Arthur Conan Doyle
• Past and future are in the mind only. I am now. Sri Nisaradatta Maharaj
• The present is the only reality and the only certainty. Arthur Schopenhauer
• Now is the only time. How we relate to it creates the future. Pema Chodron
• It’s not about the past or the future, it’s about right now.  Gunnar Nelson
• Your whole life is a rehearsal for the moment you are in now. Judith Malina
• Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why. Kurt Vonnegut
• The past is a ghost, the future a dream and all we ever have is now. Bill Cosby
• Where are you? Here. What time is it? Now. What are you? This moment. Dan Millman
• Welcome to the present moment. Here. Now. The only moment there ever is. Eckhart Tolle
• We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine. H.L. Mencken
• Absolute perfection is here and now, not in some future, near or far. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
• There is no present or future-only the past, happening over and over again-now. Eugene O’Neill
• I always live in the present. The future I can’t know. The past I no longer have. Fernando Pessoa
• NOW is all there is and the future is just another present moment to live when it arrives. Wayne Dyer
• The past is gone, the future is not here, now I am free of both. Right now, I choose joy. Deepak Chopra
• In terms of our inner lives, no time exists except for what is happening in the present moment. Joan Halifax Roshi
• Your own positive future begins in this moment. All you have is right now. Every goal is possible from here. Laozi
• Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the NOW the primary focus of your life.  Eckhart Tolle
• If there’s any possibility for enlightenment, it’s right now, not at some future time. Now is the time. Pema Chodron
• Past and Future are a duality of which Present is the reality. The now-moment alone is eternal and real.  Wei Wu Wei
• You cannot find yourself in the past or future. The only place where you can find yourself is in the Now. Eckhart Tolle
• Whenever you note the time on the clock, realize that it is now—right now—later than it has ever been. Kenneth L. Franklin
• Utopia is in the moment. Not in some future time, some other place, but in the here and now, or else it is nowhere. Alfred Stieglitz
• Nothing has happened in the past; it happened in the Now. Nothing will ever happen in the future; it will happen in the Now.  Eckhart Tolle
• People don’t realize that now is all there ever is; there is no past or future except as memory or anticipation in your mind.  Eckhart Tolle
• Mind says: ‘I can’t be happy in this moment because it has nothing I want’. The Soul responds: ‘This moment is all we ever have’. Robert Beno
• God exists in eternity. The only point where eternity meets time is in the present. The present is the only time there is. Marianne Williamson
• There is only one time that is important – NOW!! It is the most important time because it is the only time that we have any power. Leo Tolstoy
• The only thing that is ultimately real about your journey is the step that you are taking at this moment. That’s all there ever is. Eckhart Tolle
• I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is. Alan W. Watts
• The beginning of the universe and man is not some time in the past. It is now, this moment, which is demonstrably the same now as always.  Barry Long
• Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was — only is. William Faulkner
• The past is dead and the future is no-existent. There is only the present moment, the eternal present moment from which can be witnessed the illusory movement of the future into the past. Ramesh Balsekar
• The past is no more; the future not yet. Nothing exists except the here and now. Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at our hands.  Bruce Lee
• Bringing people into the here-and-now. The real universe. That’s the present moment. The past is no good to us. The future is full of anxiety. Only the present is real–the here-and-now. Seize the day. Saul Bellow
• There is no future. There is only now, a continuous now. We have become so wrapped up in the past and the future that we don’t see the continuous now. There is no future. It is an idea that you have.  Frederick Lenz
• Present-moment living, getting in touch with your now, is at the heart of effective living. When you think about it, there really is no other moment you can live. Now is all there is, and the future is just another present moment to live when it arrives. Wayne Dyer
• Every moment is as real as every other. Every ‘now,’ when you say, ‘This is the real moment,’ is as real as every other ‘now’ – and therefore all the moments are just out there. Just as every location in space is out there, I think every moment in time is out there, too. Brian Greene
• It’s being here now that’s important. There’s no past and there’s no future. Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the now. We can gain experience from the past, but we can’t relive it; and we can hope for the future, but we don’t know if there is one. George Harrison
• Time isn’t precious at all, because it is an illusion. What you perceive as precious is not time but the one point that is out of time: the Now. That is precious indeed. The more you are focused on time—past and future—the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is.  Eckhart Tolle
• The past is no more and the future is not yet. The only right person is one who lives moment to moment, whose arrow is directed to the moment, who is always here and now; wherever he is, his whole consciousness, his whole being, is involved in the reality of here and in the reality of now. Rajneesh
• Absolute perfection is here and now, not in some future, near or far. The secret is in action – here and now. It is your behavior that blinds you to yourself. Disregard whatever you think yourself to be and act as if you were absolutely perfect – whatever your idea of perfection may be. All you need is courage.  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
• God is real. God is here now. God is this moment revealed. For the most part, we are lost in the past and future world of the mind. To experience the living Presence of God in all things present, we will have come to where God is. We will have to become fully present. Otherwise we have no choice but to believe in God or disbelieve in God and neither is true, for the truth is beyond belief! Leonard Jacobson
• Rather than seeing your present moment as an obstacle, see it as the supreme miracle. “Wayne, this is the only moment you have,” is a sentence I often say to myself to keep me on friendly terms with the now. Think about that: the only moment you have. When you realize the significance of this, you’ll immediately want to shift into a state of awe and gratitude for it, regardless of what is transpiring. Wayne Dyer
• Now is the moment. The past is just a memory. The future is a mental projection. You can choose to dwell back in the past for learning and joyous reflection. You can choose to dwell in the future for visualization and practical planning. However, any time your awareness floats away to the past or future frequently for negative purposes, you are suffocating your ability to thrive in the only moment you ever have… the now. Past and future literally do not exist. Bernadette Logue
• What you think of as the past is a memory trace, stored in the mind, of a former Now. When you remember the past, you reactivate a memory trace — and you do so now. The future is an imagined Now, a projection of the mind. When the future comes, it comes as the Now. When you think about the future, you do it now. Past and future obviously have no reality of their own. Just as the moon has no light of its own, but can only reflect the light of the sun, so are past and future only pale reflections of the light, power, and reality of the eternal present. Their reality is “borrowed” from the Now.  Eckhart Tolle
• We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time, in which the so-called present moment is felt as nothing but an infinitesimal hairline between an all-powerfully causative past and an absorbingly important future. We have no present. Our consciousness is almost completely preoccupied with memory and expectation. We do not realize that there never was, is, nor will be any other experience than present experience. We are therefore out of touch with reality. We confuse the world as talked about, described, and measured with the world which actually is. We are sick with a fascination for the useful tools of names and numbers, of symbols, signs, conceptions and ideas. Alan Watts

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Life is only ever now

• Your real life is in the here and now. Alan Marlatt
• The future never comes. Life is always now. Eckhart Tolle
• Not the past, not the future, life is now. Rickson Gracie
• And since the now is all there ever is in your life, your entire life unfolds as the present moment. People don’t realize it, but all they ever have is “this”. This moment.  Eckhart Tolle
• People sacrifice the present for the future. But life is available only in the present. That is why we should walk in such a way that every step can bring us to the here and the now. Nhat Hanh
• It is always now. it is true as a matter of conscious experience. The reality of your life is always now. But we spend most of our lives forgetting this truth—overlooking it, fleeing it, repudiating it. Sam Harris