"Living in the present is the instant perception of beauty and the great delight
in it without seeking pleasure from it."
Freedom from the Known, p.37 |
"We cannot live in the present because we are using the present as a passage to the future. Because
I am going to become something, there is never a complete understanding of myself, and to
understand myself, what I am exactly now, does not require the cultivation of memory. On the
contrary, memory is a hindrance to the understanding of what is."
The First and Last Freedom, p.211 |
"You are never conscious or aware of the now. Watch your own hearts and minds and you will see that
consciousness is functioning between the past and the future and that the present is merely a
passage of the past to the future."
The First and Last Freedom, p.223 |