A Quote by Guy Finley
Being fully present is the best guarantee for a bright future.
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Can one make the future a substitute for the present? And what guarantee have we that the future will be any better if we neglect the present?
The best way to prepare for any moment in the future is to be fully conscious in the present.
I am fully present wherever I am. Why bother being in a community or neighborhood and not being fully present? I think that's colonization. I'm not interested in that.
To lose yourself: a voluptuous surrender, lost in your arms, lost to the world, utterly immersed in what is present so that its surroundings fade away. In Benjamin’s terms, to be lost is to be fully present, and to be fully present is to be capable of being in uncertainty and mystery.
To the being of fully alive, the future is not ominous but a promise; it surrounds the present like a halo.
A society which believes in a worthwhile future saves in the present so as to invest in the future. Contemporary Western society spends in the present and piles up debts for the future, ravages the environment, and leaves its grandchildren to cope with the results as best they can.
What we are left with then is the present, the only time where miracles happen. We place the past and the future as well into the hands of God. The biblical statement that “time shall be no more” means that we will one day live fully in the present, without obsessing about past or future.
But the only possible guarantee of the future is responsible behavior in the present.
If you are truly present and know how to take care of the present moment as best you can, you are doing your best for the future already.
Nothing is more precious than being in the present moment. Fully alive, fully aware.
If you've ever had the experience of being in conversation with someone when they were fully present, listening deeply to you when you're sharing with them, you know that five minutes of a fully present conversation like that can be more powerful than 30 minutes of distracted conversation.
Don't wait to be successful at some future point, have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.
Don't wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.
The future belongs to the one most fully alive in the present.
Unless one is able to live fully in the present, the future is a hoax.
I don't want a future, I want a present. To me this appears of greater value. You have a future only when you have no present, and when you have a present, you forget to even think about the future.
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