Normal day

Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are.
Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow.

~ Mary Jean Irion

We are willing enough

We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.

~E. M. Forster

I can't

I can't go back to yesterday - because I was a different person then.

~Lewis Carroll

The rule is

The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday -
but never jam today.

~Lewis Carroll

Fear

Fear is not of the present,
but only of past and future -
which does not exist.

~A Course in Miracles

Because we cling

Because we cling to the past
we become unavailable to the present.

~Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

I have realized

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

You need not cry

You need not cry, for the well is full
You need not mourn the past,
for the present is upon us.
You need not grieve,
for the essence of existence is the
Transformation of form.

~David Bolen

The past

The past is to be respected and acknowledged, but not to be worshiped. It is our future in which we find greatness.

~Pierre Trudeau

God delights

God delights to isolate us every day, and hide from us the past and the future... "you will not remember," he seems to say, "and you will not expect."

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

You must live

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.

~Henry David Thoreau

This moment

This moment is the moment of reality, of union, of truth. Nothing needs to be done to it or to you for this to be so. Nothing needs to be avoided, transcended, or found for it to be so.

~Da Avabhasa

Most people are prisoners

Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.

~Carlos Santana