We often prefer talking about something, rather than actually doing it, and the mind continually produces good ways of running away from the present moment:
Speech is born out of longing, true description from the real taste
The one who tastes, knows,
The one who explains, lies
Rābiʿah al-Baṣrī, c 713 – 801 AD, Sufi poet and mystic
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Our effort in meditation is to get rid of something extra.
Shunryu Suzuki
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How to be at peace now? By making peace with the present moment. The present moment is the field on which the game of life happens. It cannot happen anywhere else. Once you have made peace with the present moment, see what happens, what you can do or choose to do, or rather what life does through you. There are three words that convey the secret of the art of living, the secret of all success and happiness: One With Life. Being one with life is being one with Now. You then realize that you don’t live your life, but life lives you. Life is the dancer, and you are the dance.
Eckhart Tolle, A new Earth: Awakening to your Life’s Purpose
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Tibetan monks frequently practice a moment of mindfulness each and every time they walk through a door. Sometimes they do this by remembering to recite a certain verse or mantra as they do so. Try this yourself for a day. Every time you walk through a door, pause, take a moment, breathe in and out. Bring yourself back to the moment. Then cross the threshold and walk on.
Lama Surya Das, Awakening to the Sacred: Creating a Spiritual Life from Scratch
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Hope and fear are both phantoms that arise from thinking of the self.
When we don’t hold strongly to the self as self, what do we have to fear?
Have faith in the way things are.
Love all things that happen as your self; then you can care for all things.
Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved;
it is a reality to be experienced
Jacobus Johannes van der Leeuw Dutch author, 1893 – 1934
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