Quote by Paulo Coelho

In magic - and in life - there is only the present moment, the now. You can't measure time the way you measure the distance between two points. 'Time' doesn't pass. We human beings have enormous difficulty in focusing on the present; we're always thinking about what we did, about how we could have done it better, about the consequences of our actions, and about why we didn't act as we should have. Or else we think about the future, about what we're going to do tomorrow, what precautions we should take, what dangers await us around the next corner, how to avoid what we don't want and how to get what we have always dreamed of.

In magic - and in life - there is only the present moment, t

Summary

This quote emphasizes the importance of living in the present moment. It suggests that time cannot be measured like distance, as it is constantly moving and cannot be controlled. The quote highlights the tendency of humans to dwell on the past and worry about the future, preventing them from fully focusing on the present. By constantly ruminating on what could have been or what lies ahead, individuals miss out on fully experiencing the current moment. The quote suggests that embracing the present and letting go of past regrets and future anxieties is vital in both magic and life.

Topics

Life Time Future Past Present Living In The Moment

By Paulo Coelho

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

Let your character be kept up the very end, just as it began

Let your character be kept up the very end, just as it began, and so be consistent.

It's not about how to achieve your dreams, it's about how to

It's not about how to achieve your dreams, it's about how to lead your life, ... If you lead your life the right way, the karma will take care of itself, the dreams will come to you.

Inspirational Childhood Dream

Some think it the historian's business to penetrate beyond t

Some think it the historian's business to penetrate beyond this apparent confusion and heterogeneity, and to grasp in a single intuition the 'spirit' or 'meaning' of his period. With some hesitation, and with much respect for the great men who have thought otherwise, I submit that this is exactly what we must refrain from doing.

Literary Criticism

Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always somethi

Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing. What is necessary now is one thing and one thing only that democracy become again democracy in action, not democracy accomplished and piled up in goods and gold.

Archibald MacLeish

Words form the sinew and muscle that hold societies upright,

Words form the sinew and muscle that hold societies upright, he argued. Consider the Koran, the Bible, the American Constitution, but also letters from fathers to sons, last wills, blessings, curses. Thousands upon thousands of words infused with the full spectrum of emotions fill in the nooks and corners of human life.

National Geographic Magazine

Life Love Words Emotion Words Of Wisdom

Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that

Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.

Our thinking is inconsistent with what we actually see. The

Our thinking is inconsistent with what we actually see. The eye is a perfect, natural organ. The seen image is a reaction phenomenon. Using an artificial optical apparatus, the same effect, for example, can only be obtained by a roundabout way, by means of a negative. The eye, on the other hand, immediately presents us with the diapositive, namely the true image. Our sight constitutes an unconscious, automatic transformation process, through which the negative image - like a photographic negative - (i.e. the effect), is transformed into a positive one, like a diapositive color slide. Our thinking, however, is really a purely individual, conscious process and therefore learnable. If our thinking is to attain the same perfection as our seeing, then we must change our way of thinking and learn to see reality, not as an action, but as a reaction. Perfect thought lies in the apprehension of the correct reaction, for before the eye can show us the positive, it must first transform the negative and in a certain manner must break up what it records. What we see therefore, is the turning inside out of what we receive. What our mind grasps in this way must be re-formed and re-thought if we wish to attain what we strive for.http://www.frank.germano.com/viktorschauberger_b.htm

Viktor Schauberger

To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching Man

To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching Man to regard himself as an experiment in the realization of God, to regard his hands as God's hand, his brain as God's brain, his purpose as God's purpose. He must regard God as a helpless Longing, which longed him into existence by its desperate need for an executive organ.

George Bernard Shaw

So long as you do no harm to another, change your opinion on

So long as you do no harm to another, change your opinion once in a while. Contradict yourself without being embarrassed. This is your right. It doesn't matter what others think -because that's what they will think, in any case.

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wi

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

If I could be a third of the woman that my mom is and have a

If I could be a third of the woman that my mom is and have a third of the strength that she has, then I will have done good by this life.

Brittany Murphy

A civil guest will no more talk all, than eat all the feast.

A civil guest will no more talk all, than eat all the feast.