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Topic·Being present✕clear

Religious literature · Philosophical literature

Zen is a liberation from time. For if we open our eyes and see clearly, it becomes obvious that there is no other time than this instant, and that the past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.

The Way of Zen · 1957

★ 1.8

I'm a little bit, you know, seat of my pants, I try to be alert and available... For life to happen to you. We're living this life, we’re in this life, and if you’re not available, the sort of ordinary time goes past and you didn’t live it... But if you’re available, then life gets huge... You're really living it.

2014

★ 1.9

Those who have likened our life to a dream were more right, by chance, than they realized. We are awake while sleeping, and waking sleep.

Michel de Montaigne

Essays · 1580

★ 2.0

Film · Comedy (film) · Comedy

Live in the now.

Wayne's World · 1992

★ 2.0

Poem · Magazine

Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant! Let the dead Past bury its dead! Act,—act in the living Present! Heart within, and God o'erhead!

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Knickerbocker · 1838

★ 2.1

Hold fast the time! Guard it, watch over it, every hour, every minute! Unregarded it slips away, like a lizard, smooth, slippery, faithless, a pixy wife. Hold every moment sacred. Give each clarity and meaning, each the weight of thine awareness, each its true and due fulfillment.

Lotte in Weimar · 1939

★ 3.4

Speech · Scientific literature

We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth's creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable to take in the idea of dying, unable to sit still.

1978

★ 3.4

I embrace the common, I explore and sit at the feet of the familiar, the low. Give me insight into to-day, and you may have the antique and future worlds. What would we really know the meaning of? The meal in the firkin; the milk in the pan; the ballad in the street; the news of the boat.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The American Scholar · 1837

★ 3.6

Children's book · Children's literature

And when they played they really played. And when they worked they really worked.

The King's Stilts · 1939

★ 3.6

Novel · Philosophical literature

I'll tell you a big secret mon cher. Don't wait for the Last Judgment. It takes place every day.

The Fall · 1956

★ 3.6

Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.

Boris Pasternak

1958

★ 3.6

Personal journal

Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.

Henry David Thoreau

1853

★ 3.7

Personal journal

With the Past as past I have nothing to do, nor with the Future as future. I live now.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

1839

★ 3.8

I never think of the future—it comes soon enough.

Albert Einstein

1930

★ 3.8

Scripture · Religious literature

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

511 BC

★ 4.0

Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.

1957

★ 4.4

Some people feel the rain, others just get wet.

1973

★ 6.9