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Breaking Down The Present Moment 2
#20478777 - 08/26/14 10:28 AM (9 years, 6 months ago) |
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I wrote this article for Divine-Society.com and they published it. It's basically just a compilation. Does any disagree with the message here, or have something to add?
I enjoy making an idea which has been buried under layers of distortion and misinterpretation throughout the ages due to organized religion and whatnot, and make them make sense again in a completely unbiased manner. To point things out which were so obvious that they escaped us! I believe the “spiritual” teachings of today are too rigidly formalized or conceptualized to remain effective. When the truth is quite simple.
-The Present-
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment. -Buddha
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 Watts
Do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day’s own trouble be sufficient for the day. -Jesus Christ
Breathing in, I calm body and mind. Breathing out, I smile. Dwelling in the present moment I know this is the only moment. -Thich Nhat Hanh
If you are depressed you are living in the past. If you are anxious you are living in the future. If you are at peace you are living in the present. ―Lao Tzu
Be here now. ―Ram Dass
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion. -Albert Einstein
The more I give myself permission to live in the moment and enjoy it without feeling guilty, the better I feel about the quality of my work. -Wayne Dyer
Always say ‘yes’ to the present moment… Surrender to what is. Say ‘yes’ to life - and see how life starts suddenly to start working for you rather than against you. -Eckhart Tolle
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. -Henry David Thoreau
Yesterday’s the past, tomorrow’s the future, but today is a gift. That’s why it’s called the present. -Bil Keane
We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment deal only with the present moment. -Chanakya
To express yourself in freedom, you must die to everything of yesterday. From the “old,” you derive security; from the “ new,” you gain the flow. -Bruce Lee
Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life. -Eckhart Tolle
Life gives you plenty of time to do whatever you want to do if you stay in the present moment. -Deepak Chopra
The art of life is to live in the present moment, and to make that moment as perfect as we can by the realization that we are the instruments and expression of God Himself. -Emmet Fox
The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness. -Abraham Maslow
God is always coming to you in the Sacrament of the Present Moment. Meet and receive Him there with gratitude in that sacrament. -Evelyn Underhill
The point of power is always in the present moment. -Louise L. Hay
For this day, I ask that you simply concentrate on what it is happening right now. -Jesus Christ
The best gift we can have is living in the present moment and really enjoying it for what it is; and, not being in our heads and getting sidetracked. -Amy Smart
We have to get back to the beauty of just being alive in this present moment. -Mary McDonnell
What is the biggest thing that stops people from living their lives in the present moment? Fear – and we must learn how to overcome fear. -Brian Weiss
The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity… The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope. -Samuel Johnson
Anything you’re trying to will is focused on the future; it’s always associated with some sort of anxiety that makes the present moment somewhat uncomfortable. -Martha Beck
I know that the purpose of life is to understand and be in the present moment with the people you love. It’s just that simple. -Jane Seymour
Women are degraded by the propensity to enjoy the present moment, and, at last, despise the freedom which they have not sufficient virtue to struggle to attain. -Mary Wollstonecraft
While you are meditating, if your mind wanders, gently bring it back to the present moment. -Sharon Salzberg
God isn’t present in the past or future. The great ‘I Am’ is in the present moment. When I claim that presence, I can get through anything today. -Regina Brett
If you abandon the present moment, you cannot live the moments of your daily life deeply. -Nhat Hanh
There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man’s whole life is a succession of moment after moment. If one fully understands the present moment, there will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue. Live being true to the single purpose of the moment. -Yamamoto Tsunetomo
It is this research into pure painting that is the problem at the present moment. I do not know any painters in Paris who are really searching for this ideal world. -Robert Delaunay
The present moment, if you think about it, is the only time there is. No matter what time it is, it is always now. -Marianne Williamson
Children have a way of forcing you back into the present moment. -Lorna Luft
There are certain ways in which I cultivate awareness, both through mindful yoga and taking care of my body and taking time to actually drop as deeply as possible into stillness, into whatever is unfolding in the present moment. -Jon Kabat-Zinn
The “moment” has no yesterday or tomorrow. It is not the result of thought and therefore has no time. -Bruce Lee
Americans often have trouble enjoying the present moment. -Alan Dundes
The present moment is changing so fast that we often do not notice its existence at all. Every moment of mind is like a series of pictures passing through a projector. Some of the pictures come from sense impressions. Others come from memories of past experiences or from fantasies of the future. -Henepola Gunaratana
“If you feel lost, disappointed, hesitant, or weak, return to yourself, to who you are, here and now and when you get there, you will discover yourself, like a lotus flower in full bloom, even in a muddy pond, beautiful and strong.” ―Masaru Emoto
What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of the moment that create your future. The outline of your future path already exists, for you created its pattern by your past. -Sai Baba
Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present. -Jim Rohn
True happiness is… to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future. -Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Life is divided into three terms – that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present, to live better in the future. -William Wordsworth
Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now. -Alan Lakein
Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present. -Roger Babson
Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible. -Maya Angelou
Only the present moment is real and available to us. The peace we desire is not in some distant future, but it is something we can realize in the present moment. -Thich Nhat Hahn
But man postpones or remembers; he does not live in the present, but with reverted eye laments the past, or, heedless of the riches that surround him, stands on tiptoe to foresee the future. He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us -Jean de La Bruyère
Today it is not nearly enough to be a saint, but we must have the saintliness demanded by the present moment, a new saintliness, itself also without precedent. -Simone Weil
History is more or less bunk. It’s tradition. We don’t want tradition. We want to live in the present. -Henry Ford
The present moment is never intolerable. What’s intolerable is what’s going to happen in the next four hours. To have your body here at 8 pm and your mind at 10:30 pm, that’s what causes us suffering. -Anthony de Mello
The present moment, is life itself.
http://www.divine-society.com/creativity/the-spiritual-consolidator-a-list-of-spiritual-teachings/
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Re: Breaking Down The Present Moment [Re: Tmethyl]
#20479105 - 08/26/14 12:03 PM (9 years, 6 months ago) |
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Phenibut=the present moment.
-------------------- "Don't believe everything you think". -Anom. " All that lives was born to die"-Anom. With much wisdom comes much sorrow, The more knowledge, the more grief. Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC
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Re: Breaking Down The Present Moment [Re: Icelander]
#20480486 - 08/26/14 05:45 PM (9 years, 6 months ago) |
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Is quoting a bunch of people writing an article?
-------------------- The life of a condemned soul is hatred.
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Re: Breaking Down The Present Moment [Re: SeaShrooms]
#20480499 - 08/26/14 05:48 PM (9 years, 6 months ago) |
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That's what I was wondering? Was there a payment?
-------------------- "Don't believe everything you think". -Anom. " All that lives was born to die"-Anom. With much wisdom comes much sorrow, The more knowledge, the more grief. Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC
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Re: Breaking Down The Present Moment [Re: Icelander]
#20480507 - 08/26/14 05:50 PM (9 years, 6 months ago) |
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I can make long lists of quotes too, wanna see my facebook? lol
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Re: Breaking Down The Present Moment [Re: SeaShrooms]
#20480511 - 08/26/14 05:51 PM (9 years, 6 months ago) |
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To play Devil's advocate,
Yeah, let's just forget the past completely. That means don't learn from your past mistakes, that means forget about everything bad that happened when you made a particular decision (so why not make that particular decision again?), and that means screw all promises and commitments you've made because after all, now's now and now's the only time that matters. Right?
Also.
Yeah, let's just forget the future completely. That means, don't worry about any potential future consequences to your actions. The results be damned, just do what feels right because it feels good in the present moment, right? After all, the past and the future are just illusions in your mind, and only the present is real, no?
Any person with a lick of common sense knows that to truly live a "be here now" philosophy is tantamount to committing suicide. Real men(substitute properly functioning human beings if you will) recognize that one has to use the past/one's memory as a learning tool, and to use one's anticipations of the future as a guiding tool with which to properly weigh various decisions against each other.
The present moment ain't all it's cracked up to be, in other words. The present moment only got here because of all the past moments leading up to it, and it can only lead to more favorable present moments if one thinks ahead and calculates which future moments are most beneficial to one's self.
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Re: Breaking Down The Present Moment [Re: deCypher] 1
#20480525 - 08/26/14 05:53 PM (9 years, 6 months ago) |
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deCypher said: To play Devil's advocate,
Yeah, let's just forget the past completely. That means don't learn from your past mistakes, that means forget about everything bad that happened when you made a particular decision (so why not make that particular decision again?), and that means screw all promises and commitments you've made because after all, now's now and now's the only time that matters. Right?
Also.
Yeah, let's just forget the future completely. That means, don't worry about any potential future consequences to your actions. The results be damned, just do what feels right because it feels good in the present moment, right? After all, the past and the future are just illusions in your mind, and only the present is real, no?
Any person with a lick of common sense knows that to truly live a "be here now" philosophy is tantamount to committing suicide. Real men(substitute properly functioning human beings if you will) recognize that one has to use the past/one's memory as a learning tool, and to use one's anticipations of the future as a guiding tool with which to properly weigh various decisions against each other.
The present moment ain't all it's cracked up to be, in other words. The present moment only got here because of all the past moments leading up to it, and it can only lead to more favorable present moments if one thinks ahead and calculates which future moments are most beneficial to one's self.
Merveilleux!
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I would put the same argument forward by saying, the present is a product of the past, and the cause of the future, therefore they are all intrinsically related.
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Re: Breaking Down The Present Moment [Re: deCypher]
#20480697 - 08/26/14 06:30 PM (9 years, 6 months ago) |
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SeaShrooms said: Is quoting a bunch of people writing an article?
They seemed to think so, I labeled it a "compilation". It's not quoting a bunch of people that was the point, the point was that everyone from Buddha to Jesus to Bruce Lee Henry Ford to Albert Einstein said the same exact thing, just in different words, did you miss that part? . Nearly every prominent figure through history and even many moderns ones mention The Present Moment. That was the point.
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deCypher said: To play Devil's advocate,
Yeah, let's just forget the past completely. That means don't learn from your past mistakes, that means forget about everything bad that happened when you made a particular decision (so why not make that particular decision again?), and that means screw all promises and commitments you've made because after all, now's now and now's the only time that matters. Right?
No, not even close. Nowhere does it say to forget the past, or forget the future, it means to LIVE in the present, in other words do not dwell in imaginary things. Living in the present is the best way to be happy, to be productive and at peace. Forgetting the past, or not acknowledging the future, is just plain ignorant. Thinking(or learning) of the past and future is not anything like living in the past or future, it seems you completely misunderstood the idea being portrayed my friend. Or rather your ego got the best of you and talked you into an attempt at sensationalizing your heavily polarized opinion.
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deCypher said: Yeah, let's just forget the future completely. That means, don't worry about any potential future consequences to your actions. The results be damned, just do what feels right because it feels good in the present moment, right? After all, the past and the future are just illusions in your mind, and only the present is real, no?
It's fact that the present is the only real thing there is, it's not a matter of opinion to be debated The rest of your post is more sensationalizing a negaitively polarized opinion instead of seeing the point or middleground.
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deCypher said: Any person with a lick of common sense knows that to truly live a "be here now" philosophy is tantamount to committing suicide. Real men(substitute properly functioning human beings if you will) recognize that one has to use the past/one's memory as a learning tool, and to use one's anticipations of the future as a guiding tool with which to properly weigh various decisions against each other.
Correct, as already mentioned, the past and future can be learned from, and that is not considered "living" in the past or present.
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deCypher said: The present moment ain't all it's cracked up to be, in other words. The present moment only got here because of all the past moments leading up to it, and it can only lead to more favorable present moments if one thinks ahead and calculates which future moments are most beneficial to one's self.
You've missed the point. The above was never under debate.
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Re: Breaking Down The Present Moment [Re: Tmethyl] 1
#20480868 - 08/26/14 07:03 PM (9 years, 6 months ago) |
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how can someone 'live' in the past/future if there is only the present?
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Re: Breaking Down The Present Moment [Re: White Beard]
#20480886 - 08/26/14 07:06 PM (9 years, 6 months ago) |
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-------------------- "Don't believe everything you think". -Anom. " All that lives was born to die"-Anom. With much wisdom comes much sorrow, The more knowledge, the more grief. Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC
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Re: Breaking Down The Present Moment [Re: Icelander] 2
#20480996 - 08/26/14 07:27 PM (9 years, 6 months ago) |
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Depression(and relatives), is living in the past. Anxiousness(and relatives), is living in the future. Quite simple. It all happens in your mind. We're not talking about literal "living"
Lao Tzu, writer of the Tao Te Ching:
If you are depressed you are living in the past. If you are anxious you are living in the future. If you are at peace you are living in the present.
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Re: Breaking Down The Present Moment [Re: Tmethyl] 1
#20481059 - 08/26/14 07:40 PM (9 years, 6 months ago) |
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“I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing — a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process – an integral function of the universe.” ― R. Buckminster Fuller
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Re: Breaking Down The Present Moment [Re: Tmethyl] 1
#20481071 - 08/26/14 07:42 PM (9 years, 6 months ago) |
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I disagree. I experience depression about future events (e.g. this day of work is going to be boring and tedious, I'm going to die one day, etc. etc.)...
Also people can get anxiety from the past... e.g. ptsd
Edited by White Beard (08/26/14 07:53 PM)
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Re: Breaking Down The Present Moment [Re: Tmethyl] 1
#20481130 - 08/26/14 07:54 PM (9 years, 6 months ago) |
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I like most of those quotes, bruce lee is weird. great work compiling. I want to sticky this list, how do you do that?
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Re: Breaking Down The Present Moment [Re: Tmethyl] 1
#20481269 - 08/26/14 08:24 PM (9 years, 6 months ago) |
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Tmethyl said: Depression(and relatives), is living in the past. Anxiousness(and relatives), is living in the future. Quite simple. It all happens in your mind. We're not talking about literal "living"
Lao Tzu, writer of the Tao Te Ching:
If you are depressed you are living in the past. If you are anxious you are living in the future. If you are at peace you are living in the present.
Except that quote isn't accurate. It may be accurate at times but not always and I speak from experience.
-------------------- "Don't believe everything you think". -Anom. " All that lives was born to die"-Anom. With much wisdom comes much sorrow, The more knowledge, the more grief. Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC
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Re: Breaking Down The Present Moment [Re: Icelander] 1
#20481600 - 08/26/14 09:33 PM (9 years, 6 months ago) |
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When I'm in jail thinking of the future keeps me from offing a guard, when I'm on the highway hitch-hiking and no one gives me the spare change to eat a fucking dollar menu cheese burger thinking of the past kindness I've been showed keeps me from robbing someone.
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Re: Breaking Down The Present Moment [Re: SeaShrooms] 1
#20481637 - 08/26/14 09:42 PM (9 years, 6 months ago) |
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Good examples and they abound. Most things are never completely black or white.
-------------------- "Don't believe everything you think". -Anom. " All that lives was born to die"-Anom. With much wisdom comes much sorrow, The more knowledge, the more grief. Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC
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Re: Breaking Down The Present Moment [Re: Icelander]
#20481673 - 08/26/14 09:49 PM (9 years, 6 months ago) |
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Re: Breaking Down The Present Moment [Re: Rocket]
#20482744 - 08/27/14 04:25 AM (9 years, 6 months ago) |
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what's good about it is not how absolutely right it is for all situations for all people, but how many people come up with it as their gift to humanity.
different words for approximately the same kernel of an idea that does not quite fit in any words at all
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