No Time Like the Present Quotes

“You can pick all the flowers but you can’t stop the spring. —PABLO NERUDA”
― Jack Kornfield, No Time Like the Present: Finding Freedom, Love, and Joy Right Where You Are

“The Joy of Being Alive Now and then it’s good to pause in your pursuit of happiness, and just be happy. —GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE”
― Jack Kornfield, No Time Like the Present: Finding Freedom, Love, and Joy Right Where You Are

“You can’t change it all, but your freedom empowers you to contribute to the world, and your love gives you the way to do so.”
― Jack Kornfield, No Time Like the Present: Finding Freedom, Love, and Joy Right Where You Are

“celebrate your survival”
― Jack Kornfield, No Time Like the Present: Finding Freedom, Love, and Joy Right Where You Are

“Being an artist means ripening like a tree which . . . stands confidently in the storm of winter not afraid that summer may not come. It always comes.”
― Jack Kornfield, No Time Like the Present: Finding Freedom, Love, and Joy Right Where You Are

“No matter what the world around you wants, there is only one person you can be true to, and that is yourself.”
― Jack Kornfield, No Time Like the Present: Finding Freedom, Love, and Joy Right Where You Are

“Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do children as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.”
― Jack Kornfield, No Time Like the Present: Finding Freedom, Love, and Joy Right Where You Are

“Notice when you are open, how others relax their own defensiveness. Let yourself be curious, loving, and concerned. Learn to see in new ways. It’s never too late to open your heart and mind.”
― Jack Kornfield, No Time Like the Present: Finding Freedom, Love, and Joy Right Where You Are

“No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time.” No one has lived your life before. It is an adventure worth taking.”
― Jack Kornfield, No Time Like the Present: Finding Freedom, Love, and Joy Right Where You Are

“Eternity is here, always alive in the present moment. Mindfulness invites us to return to now, the present moment, instead of being buried in thoughts of a past that no longer exists or fantasizing about a future that is yet to come. In the present moment, we learn to see clearly and kindly. With the power of mindfulness, we can become fully present to the unbearable beauty and the inevitable tragedy that comprise our human life. We can honorably embrace and tend the life we’ve been given. Touching”
― Jack Kornfield, No Time Like the Present: Finding Freedom, Love, and Joy Right Where You Are

“The means and the goal are one: be yourself, dream, trust, have courage, and act.”
― Jack Kornfield, No Time Like the Present: Finding Freedom, Love, and Joy Right Where You Are

“During hard times, trust demands a shift from the small self, the body of fear, to a connection with that which is vast, sacred, holy. It is a trust in the greatness of the human spirit.”
― Jack Kornfield, No Time Like the Present: Finding Freedom, Love, and Joy Right Where You Are

“fear is often excitement holding its breath.”
― Jack Kornfield, No Time Like the Present: Finding Freedom, Love, and Joy Right Where You Are

“It’s Already Broken Everything in this world is subject to change and renewal. We are a flow of yin and yang, of sense experiences and dreams, an ever-changing river of feelings and thoughts. Consistency is the realm of the press release; inconsistency is the stuff of life. Relax. Hold the paradox of change and eternity with grace rather than judgment or fear. Then you will see that in this imperfect world, there is another kind of joy. We have the ability to be perfectly ourselves. We have the laughter of the wise, the freedom to choose our spirit no matter the circumstances. We have the freedom to love anyway. To love amid the glorious, terrifying, and unshakable beauty of it all. We have the wisdom and courage to care sweetly in this fleeting, evanescent play of days.”
― Jack Kornfield, No Time Like the Present: Finding Freedom, Love, and Joy Right Where You Are

“You, too, can be released from the suffering of your history. While it is important to honor your past, it need not define you. Your identity is not limited to personal biography or your mind’s ideas about itself.”
― Jack Kornfield, No Time Like the Present: Finding Freedom, Love, and Joy Right Where You Are

“French Nobel laureate André Gide confessed, “To be utterly happy, the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments.”
― Jack Kornfield, No Time Like the Present: Finding Freedom, Love, and Joy Right Where You Are

“H. L. Mencken, a journalist in the 1920s, saw this whipping-up of fear as endemic to politics. “The whole aim of politics is to keep the populace alarmed—and hence clamorous to be led to safety—by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, almost all of them imaginary.”
― Jack Kornfield, No Time Like the Present: Finding Freedom, Love, and Joy Right Where You Are

“Tao Te Ching explains, “When you are true to yourself, you are true to the Tao.”
― Jack Kornfield, No Time Like the Present: Finding Freedom, Love, and Joy Right Where You Are

“The whole aim of politics is to keep the populace alarmed—and hence clamorous to be led to safety—by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, almost all of them imaginary”
― Jack Kornfield, No Time Like the Present: Finding Freedom and Joy Where You Are

“Love being alive. Love your creative, distracted, overworked mind. Love your anxiety and depression and longing and wisdom. Love your food, celebrate your survival, open your senses to the mysterious communion of life right where you are.”
― Jack Kornfield, No Time Like the Present: Finding Freedom, Love, and Joy Right Where You Are

“If you hold on to any expectation, you miss the wisdom. It is impermanent. Be the One Who Knows, the witness to it all. This is how trust grows.” And it is how love grows as well. Trust and love are the keys.”
― Jack Kornfield, No Time Like the Present: Finding Freedom and Joy Where You Are