Skip to main content

A Quote on The Past, Future and The Present Moment

“The past is past; it is gone, cherish the experience, learn from it; keep reliving it, and you will be stuck in it while your life passes by.  The future is illusionary.  The only thing you have is the “unfathomable” present moment, which is beyond time and space, in which you experience eternity and what has been termed “the kingdom of heaven” and “nirvana”."

– by Clayton Micallef

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

How to Live Without Regret?

By  living mindfully wholesomely cultivating the beautiful and the good. This is made possible through the seeds of generosity, kindness, and compassion that live in every human heart. These qualities ennoble our hearts and leave no residue of regret in our minds.
Post a Comment
Read more

Making Space to Respond with Intention

When practising mindfulness , we cultivate and strengthen awareness enough to take a step back and not merely react. With  mindful awareness , we can insert a gap or a pause between us and what we experience so that we are no longer carried away by our reactive patterns. In that little gap, there exist the freedom to respond in a fresh and less predetermined way.
Post a Comment
Read more

Turning on the light

Only by turning on the light, you can instantly destroy the darkness. Meditation can be the light shining awareness onto our attachments and afflictive emotions. As turning on the lights in a darkroom instantly removes the darkness. Likewise, through meditation or even, a rather simple analysis of our patterns of ego-clinging and afflictive emotions can make them collapse.  Such collapse sees through our attachments and how these can be the cause of our suffering.  Such can lead to liberation from the cycle of Samsara and the transcending of suffering .
Post a Comment
Read more