“This is the real secret of life– to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.” — Alan Wilson Watts
“Now” awareness most frequently occurs in activities done for its own pleasure with the experience being the primary goal…..it is free from preoccupations with the self… and performed for intrinsic satisfaction usually by people who are inner directed …. Their activities are different from being externally driven, where things such as comfort, money, power, or fame are the motivating force.
Those whose life style is primarily focused on “now” activities are more autonomous and independent because they cannot be as easily manipulated with threats or rewards from the outside. At the same time, they are more involved and related with everything around them since they are fully immersed in the flow of life.
“Forever is composed of nows.” ~Emily Dickinson
“A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future.” ~ Albert Einstein
“I don’t believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.” ~ Joseph Campbell
“Eternity is not something that begins after you are dead. It is going on all the time. We are in it now.”- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
“Life is now. There was never a time when your life was not now, nor will there ever be.”~Eckhart Tolle
