"The past is no more; the future..." - Quote by Bruce Lee
The past is no more; the future not yet. Nothing exists except the here and now. Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at our hands.
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“I don't want to do anything halfway. It has to be perfect.”
“The biggest adversary in our life is ourselves. We are what we are, in a sense, because of the dominating thoughts we allow to gather in our head. All concepts of self-improvement, all actions and paths we take, relate solely to our abstract image of ourselves. Life is limited only by how we really see ourselves and feel about our being. A great deal of pure self-knowledge and inner understanding allows us to lay an all-important foundation for the structure of our life from which we can perceive and take the right avenues.”
“If you knew you had to fight for your life tomorrow, would you change your training today?”
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“When you wash your hands, when you make a cup of coffee, when you're waiting for the elevator - instead of indulging in thinking, these are all opportunities for being there as a still, alert presence.”
“No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.”
“By watching the mechanics of the mind, you step out of its resistance patterns, and you can then allow the present moment to be.”
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“Stress is caused by being here but wanting to be there, or being in the present but wanting to be in the future. It's a split that tears you apart inside.”
“We have somehow conned ourselves into the notion that this moment is ordinary. This now moment, in which I'm talking and you're listening, is eternity.”
“Presence is the key to freedom, so you can only be free now.”