We are deep at the bottom of this river of time, caught up in the current of the moment where all the rivers rendezvous.
I teach that the foundation for our practice is being able to go inward and disconnect from the busyness of our thoughts, that focusing the mind on bodily sensations and breath will ground us in the present moment. Yoga is about realizing who you really are, aside from your persona.
Learn the alchemy true human beings know. The moment you accept what troubles you've been given the door with open.
It's not that there is no such thing as truth. But we come to like and trust a certain story, not because it's necessarily the most absolutely truthful, but because it's a thing that we tell ourselves that makes sense of the world, at least at this moment.
The moment had passed, the door between the lives we could have led and the lives we led had shut in our faces.
During that Grammy moment, when I nearly collapsed, I was thinking, Are you kidding me? I've always been really good with my heels. Even pregnant, I could perform in heels. Note to self: Never wear a train onstage.
I am breathing in and out. Realizing this, I began to notice that each moment was not without its beauty.
I always thought that eventually there would be a moment where I realized that I had practiced enough and now I was ready to be a professional writer. Then I befriended a number of successful professional writers and realized that none of them ever felt ready. After that I decided I might as well stop waiting to feel ready and just get started.
You’d better tell me what you know, toad,” said Tiffany. “Miss Tick isn’t here. I am. ” “Another world is colliding with this one,” said the toad. “There. Happy now? That’s what Miss Tick thinks. But it’s happening faster than she expected. All the monsters are coming back. ” “Why?” “There’s no one to stop them. ” There was silence for a moment. “There’s me,” said Tiffany.
This is how memories are; what seems so clear and unforgettable at one moment vanishes like steam the next.
Humanity, its dignity and its balance, will depend at every moment and on every place on the globe,on who man is for woman and who woman is for man.
What draws me to roles, I think, are moments - moments that define character, where so much more of the story is told in just a moment - a look, a line, a short scene, but something that speaks a volume, something that speaks to me.
As for the spirit of poverty, I do not remember any moment when it was not in me, although only to that unhappily small extent compatible with my imperfection. I fell in love with Saint Francis of Assisi as soon as I came to know about him. I always believed and hoped that one day Fate would force upon me the condition of a vagabond and a beggar which he embraced freely. Actually I felt the same way about prison.
God is continuously in action, without resting for a single moment.
[Heaven is] that moment in which something attains its maximum depth, its maximum reach, its maximum sense, and becomes completely uninteresting.
I was raised with this consciousness of being part of this global Muslim community. At the same time, I didn't even know if I wanted to be Muslim. It was this incredibly complicated moment: I just needed to balance these two things where you care about people on some deep level who are my co-religion and are being killed because of their religion. Then, at the same time, I'm like ah, I don't really know if I want this.
Who are you? Answer; you are who you are in this given moment. Label-less. Limitless. Remember that from this day forward.
When I eat with my friends, it is a moment of real pleasure, when I really enjoy my life.
We only have this one moment: NOW.
I never think anything's finished. It's really not. Recording is only just a moment in time. It's as good as you can do it until then.