Post Written By Eugene Morgan Don’t let yesterday use up too much of today. — Cherokee Proverb The above quote is a good description on how we spend too much of our time in the past while taking our time away from our present. There is nothing left in our present when we spend our time in […]
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Find Yourself In the Present
Post Written By Eugene Morgan In the process of letting go you will lose many things from the past, but you will find yourself. — Deepak Chopra In order words, we’re not defined by our past. Therefore, we don’t have to identify with the past as though that’s all to live for. Our past is a reflection […]
Extraordinary Things
Post Written By Eugene Morgan The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them. — Paulo Coelho If we’re more present with our lives, we’ll begin to see simple things as extraordinary. It is where we place our attention. The simple things in life are extraordinary if we just […]
Our Story Is Not Over
Post Written By Eugene Morgan One bad chapter doesn’t mean your story’s over. — Unknown We all have bad chapters in our lives, and we also have good ones as well. Not only we are stronger when we go through difficulties, but we also have a better understanding of things that we didn’t have before. Our future […]
Always Begin Again
Post Written By Eugene Morgan No matter how hard the past, you can always begin again. — Buddha Starting a new day is our opportunity to let go of our past. The past is something we can’t control. The past is but a memory. It is something we can no longer touch. Today we have the opportunity […]
What Matters Most is Today
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.” — Buddha What we do today is what matters most because action can only work in the present not in the past or the future. The past we can only reflect while looking at the future we can only […]
Appeal To Reality
Post Written By Eugene Morgan The past exists only in our memories, the future only in our plans. The present is our only reality. — Robert Pirsig This is an interesting quote because not only Robert Pirsig mentions the past, future, present, but also he mentions them in terms of our experiences of the past, future and […]
Prepare Today for Tomorrow’s Wants
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow.” — Aesop Preparation is a form of planning for the future. While we still have our mobility, still have our faculties and our health, it is thrifty to prepare today so we don’t have to worry about tomorrow or our […]
Truly In The Present
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “If we are not fully ourselves, truly in the present moment, we miss everything.” Thich Nhat Hanh When we look in our past and in our future, we’re spending 2/3 of our time away from the present. While our minds are either in the past or in the future, our […]
Let Go of What Was
Post Written By Eugene Morgan “Accept what is, let go of what was, and have faith in what will be.”—Sonia Ricotti If we let go of what was, then it is easier to accept what is and have faith in what will be. Since we can do nothing about our past or foresee what’s […]
This Day
Post Written By Eugene Morgan Nothing is worth more than this day. ~ Goethe Today is what we are experiencing now; it is all we have. Tomorrow is only imagined and yesterday is only remembered. But with the present, we have all we need. What is in front of us is what we attend to […]
Live First, then Make Life Better
Post Written By Eugene Morgan It’s all right to make life better, but is more important to live. Sometimes we focus too much on how can we better our lives and we forget to live our lives. If we just live, we then bring ourselves back into the here and now; the present. We’re no […]