Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life (2005)
“Mindfulness is present-moment awareness. It takes place in the here and now. It is the observance of what is happening right now, in the present. It stays forever in the present, perpetually on the crest of the ongoing wave of passing time.”
Source: Mindfulness in Plain English (2011), p. 134
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Henepola Gunaratana 2
Sri Lankan Buddhist monk 1927Related quotes
“Every moment you steal from the present is a moment you've lost forever. There is only now.”
Variant: every moment you steal from the present is a moment you have lost for ever. There's only now.
Source: The Passion
Yes, really new, and yet as all those who have ever experienced it assert, at that moment we know that we have always been at home in that world, although we only now become aware of it.
Attributed without citation at Nonduality Salon Highlights, #1891 http://www.nonduality.com/hl1891.htm, 15 August 2004
On Eagle's Wings, 1977, p. 159
As of a Trumpet, On Eagle's Wings
Attributed without citation at Nonduality Salon Highlights, #1891 http://www.nonduality.com/hl1891.htm, 15 August 2004