"If you spend your time learning to express in the present rather than endeavoring to fix your past, you will be much better off."

-- Laurence Boldt

"If it is the quality of your consciousness at the moment that determines the future, then what determines the quality of your consciousness is your degree of presence."

-- Eckhart Tolle

"The point is to come to rest in the moment and to share that experience with others as simply and as openly as possible."

-- Clark Strand

"The quality of presence determines the quality of life."

-- Jack Kornfield

"In the expectation of wonderful things to happen in the future; one doesn't hear the sound of the wind and rain, the breath and heartbeat this instant."

-- Toni Packer

"Love is a choice -- not simply or necessarily a rational choice, but rather a willingness to present to others without pretense or guile."

-- Carter Heywood

"You dissolve discord, heal pain, dispel unconsciousness -- without doing anything -- simply be being and holding that frequency of intense presence."

-- Eckhart Tolle

"... what we have always known to be most true: that being present to nature, to oneself, and to other people it the only life there is."

-- Clark Strand

"Your children need your presence more than your presents."

-- Jesse Jackson

"Paradise is where I am."

-- Voltaire

"The art of life is a constant readjustment to our surroundings."

-- Okakura Kakuzo

"Having an image of oneself and of what one should do or should not do creates duality and has nothing to do with undivided attention to what actually is taking place."

-- Toni Packer