Richard Moss > Quotes

“The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention.”
― Richard Moss

“Our breathing has been a friend that has accompanied us through every moment of life; it has never deserted us no matter how terrible we have felt. Friendship in itself connotes a quality of feelings that has elements of warmth, trust, and welcome. Our hearts always relax when we greet a friend.
Mandala of Being, Richard Moss MD”
― Richard Moss

“...when our minds are unconsciously in the future, the present disappears; it is simply not available to us. We substitute heading toward our lives for actually living.”
― Richard Moss

“The Now is not an ultimate state to be realized but rather a continuum to be lived.”
― Richard Moss, The Mandala of Being: Discovering the Power of Awareness

“That is, you can’t get outside the present to make it an object of thought.”
― Richard Moss, Inside-Out Healing: Transforming Your Life Through the Power of Presence

“Of course, if your ego can’t get you to believe stories about yourself that make you feel superior, then it will look for ones that make you feel inferior instead. It will turn your thoughts to stories that make you feel weak and unworthy, as if you are an inconvenience, a burden on others, a failure, unattractive, incapable, or stupid.”
― Richard Moss, Inside-Out Healing: Transforming Your Life Through the Power of Presence

“It is for this reason that your ego cannot let you become fully present, for the moment you are, it recedes and there is only awareness, only being. And this scares your ego to death, because it hasn’t yet understood its relationship to awareness.”
― Richard Moss, Inside-Out Healing: Transforming Your Life Through the Power of Presence