Quotes About Presence

What, at this moment, is lacking?

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Enlightenment

Oír el silencio, dondequiera que esté, es una forma fácil y directa de hacerse presente. Incluso si hay ruido, hay siempre silencio bajo y entre los sonidos.

Being can be felt, but it can never be understood mentally.

Ego implies complete unawareness of the dimension of space

If you think you are so enlightened," Ram Dass said, "go and spend a week with your parents." That is good advice. The relationship with your parents is not only the primordial relationship that sets the tone for all subsequent relationships, it is also a good test for your degree of Presence. The more shared past there is in a relationship, the more present you need to be; otherwise, you will be forced to relive the past again and again.

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 presence.

I am that stranger who has nothing to give you and who is telling you to look inside. Not inside any box, as in the parable, but somewhere even closer: inside yourself.

Perceiving presence is what true awakening is all about.

Being must be 'felt' it can not be 'thought.

Presence is pure consciousness — consciousness that has been reclaimed from the mind, from the world of form. The inner body is your link with the Unmanifested, and in its deepest aspect is the Unmanifested: the Source from which consciousness emanates, as light emanates from the sun. Awareness of the inner body is consciousness remembering its origin and returning to the Source.

completely accept what is, because you cannot give your full attention to something and at the same time resist it.

The whole essence of Zen consists in walking along the razor's edge of Now - to be so utterly, so completely present that no problem, no suffering, nothing that is not who you are in your essence, can survive in you. In the Now, in the absence of time, all your problems dissolve. Suffering needs time: it cannot survive in the Now.

Na trenutak morate odložiti osobnu prtljagu problema, prošlosti i budu?nosti, kao i sve svoje znanje; ina?e ?ete vidjeti, ali ne?ete vidjeti, ?ut ?ete, ali ne?ete ?uti. Potrebna je vaša apsolutna prisutnost.

So give up waiting as a state of mind.

Problem" means that you are dwelling on a situation mentally without there being a true intention or possibility of taking action now and that you are unconsciously making it part of your sense of self. You become so overwhelmed by your life situation that you lose your sense of life, of Being. Or you are carrying in your mind the insane burden of a hundred things that you will or may have to do in the future instead of focusing your attention on the one thing that you can do now.

The fact is that, in a very similar way, virtually everyone hears a voice, or several voices, in their head all the time: the involuntary thought processes that you don't realize you have the power to stop. Continuous monologues or dialogues.

But as long as negativity is there, use it. Use it as a kind of signal that reminds you to be more present.

Be the ever-alert guardian of your inner space.

True salvation is fulfillment, peace, life in all its fullness. It is to be who you are, to feel within you the good that has no opposite, the joy of Being that depends on nothing outside itself. It is felt not as a passing experience but as an abiding presence.

The present moment holds the key to liberation. But you cannot find the present moment as long as you are your mind.

You have it already. You just can't feel it because your mind is making too much noise.

Probudi se. Ustani iz svoga uma. Budi prisutan.«