Spiritual Quotes

Living in the Present

By thought, the thing you want is brought to you; by action you receive it. Whatever your action is to be, it is evident that you must act NOW. You cannot act in the past, and it is essential to the clearness of your mental vision that you dismiss the past from your mind. You cannot act in the future, for the future is not here yet. And you cannot tell how you will want to act in any future contingency until that contingency has arrived. —Wallace Wattles, The Science of Getting Rich

Put your whole mind into present action. Do not give your creative impulse to Original Substance, and then sit down and wait for results; if you do, you will never get them. Act now. There is never any time but now, and there never will be any time but now. If you are ever to begin to make ready for the reception of what you want, you must begin now. —Wallace Wattles, The Science of Getting Rich

Do not bother as to whether yesterday’s work was well done or ill done; do today’s work well. —Wallace Wattles, The Science of Getting Rich

It is a great gift to learn to enjoy the present—to get all there is out of it, and to think of today as a piece of eternity. —Ella Wheeler Wilcox, The Heart of the New Thought

Do not anticipate the happiness of tomorrow, but discover it in today. —Ella Wheeler Wilcox, The Heart of the New Thought

If we will take care of today, God will take care of the morrow. —Mahatma Gandhi, Young India

The robbers of time are the past and the future. Man should bless the past, and forget it, if it keeps him in bondage, and bless the future, knowing it has in store for him endless joys, but live fully in the now. —Florence Scovel Shinn, The Game of Life and How to Play It

Man must live suspended in the moment.... He must be spiritually alert, ever awaiting his leads, taking advantage of every opportunity. —Florence Scovel Shinn, The Game of Life and How to Play It

Living with memories isn't fulfilling God's plan for your life. God is life, within you, eagerly seeking unity with other life, yearning to picture forth the health and joy and strength and usefulness that there is in all God life. God is love that must be converted into loving—loving things of the present, those about you, the thoughts and words and works that are adding to the wealth and peace and beauty of the world now. —Myrtle Fillmore, Healing Letters

There is no way to strength and wisdom but by acting strongly and wisely in the present moment, and each present moment reveals its own task. —James Allen, Byways of Blessedness

Each morning is a fresh beginning. We are, as it were, just beginning life. We have it entirely in our own hands. And when the morning with its fresh beginning comes, all yesterdays should be yesterdays, with which we have nothing to do. Sufficient is it to know that the way we lived our yesterday has determined for us our today. And, again, when the morning with its fresh beginning comes, all tomorrows should be tomorrows, with which we have nothing to do. Sufficient to know that the way we live our today determines our tomorrow. —Ralph Waldo Trine, Thoughts I Met on the Highway