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“Time isn’t precious at all, because it is an illusion. What you perceive as precious is not time but the one point that is out of time: the Now. That is precious indeed. The more you are focused on time - past and future - the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is.” Eckhart Tolle

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“We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.” Henry Louis Mencken

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“The Self remains ever the same, here and now.” Ramana Maharshi

“Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. How do you know this is the experience you need? Because this is the experience you are having at this moment.” Eckhart Tolle

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“I want you to forget what happened yesterday and tomorrow and today. Tonight we’re going to create a whole new world.” Jimi Hendrix

“You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.” Henry David Thoreau

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“Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. How do you know this is the experience you need? Because this is the experience you are having at the moment.” Eckhart Tolle

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“Stress is caused by being ’here’ but wanting to be ‘there’. It is a split that tears you apart inside.” Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now

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“Somehow she knew that you didn’t get many moments like this in your life: moments when you knew, without any doubt, that you were alive, when you felt the air in your lungs and the wet grass beneath your feet and the cotton on your skin; moments when you were completely in the present, when neither the past nor the future mattered.” Neil Gaiman

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“The Greek word for sinning means to ‘miss the point;’ The point is eternal life which is here and now.” Alan Watts

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