Quotes About Presence

The single most vital step on your journey toward enlightenment is this: Learn to disidentify from your mind. Every time you create a gap in the stream of mind, the light of your consciousness grows stronger.

You cannot do this in the future. You do it now or not at all.

Joy does not come from what you do, it flows into what you do and thus into this world from deep within you.

If there were nothing but thought in you, you wouldn't even know you are thinking.

When you make friends with the present moment, you feel at home no matter where you are.

Should a situation arise that you need to deal with now, your action will be clear and incisive if it arises out of present-moment awareness. It is also more likely to be effective. It will not be a reaction coming from the past conditioning of your mind but an intuitive response to the situation. In other instances, when the time-bound mind would have reacted, you will find it more effective to do nothing — just stay centered in the Now.

To be in alignment with what is means to be in a relationship of inner nonresistance with what happens. It means not to label it mentally as good or bad, but to let it be.

We have forgotten what rocks, plants, and animals still know. We have forgotten how to be— to be still, to be ourselves, to be where life is: Here and Now.

A group of people coming together in a state of presence generates a collective energy field of great intensity. It not only raises the degree of presence of each member of the group but also helps to free the collective human consciousness from its current state of mind dominance.

To stay present in everyday life, it helps to be deeply rooted within yourself; otherwise, the mind, which has incredible momentum, will drag you along like a wild river.

All negativity is caused by an accumulation of psychological time and denial of the present. Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry — all forms of fear — are caused by too much future, and not enough presence. Guilt, regret, resentment, grievances, sadness, bitterness, and all forms of nonforgiveness are caused by too much past, and not enough

You are cut off from Being as long as your mind takes up all your attention. When this happens — and it happens continuously for most people — you are not in your body. The mind absorbs all your consciousness and transforms it into mind stuff. You cannot stop thinking. Compulsive thinking has become a collective disease.

Whenever you notice that voice, you will also realize that you are not the voice, but the one who is aware of it.

You are present when what you are doing is not primarily a means to an end (money, prestige, winning) but fulfilling in itself, when there is joy and aliveness in what you do. And, of course, you cannot be present unless you become friendly with the present moment. That is the basis for effective action, uncontaminated by negativity.

The present moment is as it is. Always. Can you let it be?

in it. It means consciousness is lost in its own dream. You get taken in by every thought, every emotion

Be present as the watcher of your mind- of your thoughts and emotions as well as your reactions in various situations

Past and future veil God from our sight; burn up both of them with fire

In a true emergency, the mind stops; you become totally present in the Now, and something infinitely more powerful takes over.

Ne tražite sre?u. Ako je tražite, ne?ete je na?i, jer je traženje suprotnost sre?i. Sre?a uvijek vješto izmi?e, ali slobodu od nesre?e možete posti?i ovoga trenutka suo?avaju?i se sa stvarnoš?u, umjesto da o njoj izmišljate pri?e.

Being must be felt. It can't be thought.

Awareness means Presence, and only Presence can dissolve the unconscious past in you.

?ak i kad je nebo prekriveno teškim oblacima, nije rije? o tome da je Sunce nestalo. Sunce je još uvijek ondje, iza oblaka.

Get out of your head and into the moment.