Quotes About Presence

full attention means full acceptance.

True listening is another way of bringing stillness into the relationship. When you truly listen to someone, the dimension of stillness arises and becomes an essential part of the relationship. But true listening is a rare skill. Usually, the greater part of a person's attention is taken up by their thinking. At best, they may be evaluating your words or preparing the next thing to say. Or they may not be listening at all, lost in their own thoughts.

When instead of reacting against a situation, you merge with it, the solution arises out of the situation itself.

It is your conscious Presence that breaks the identification with the pain-body. When you don't identify with it, the pain-body can no longer control your thinking and so cannot renew itself anymore by feeding on your thoughts. The pain-body in most cases does not dissolve immediately, but once you have severed the link between it and your thinking, the pain-body begins to lose energy. Your thinking ceases to be clouded by emotion; your present perceptions are no longer distorted by the past.

So don't seek to become free of desire or "achieve" enlightenment. Become present. Be there as the observer of the mind. Instead of quoting the Buddha, be the Buddha, be "the awakened one," which is what the word buddha means.

the more you are able to honor and accept the Now, the more you are free of pain, of suffering — and free of the egoic mind.

Nur wenn du dich auf den gegenwärtigen Augenblick ausrichtest, gewinnst du Zugang zu dieser Kraft.

See the fullness of life all around you. The warmth of the sun on your skin, the display of magnificent flowers outside a florist's shop, biting into a succulent fruit, or getting soaked in an abundance of water falling from the sky. The fullness of life is there at every step.

Sei also dem Leben treu, indem du deinem inneren Ziel treu bleibst. Wenn du präsent bist und voll und ganz in dem aufgehst, was du tust, werden deine Taten mit spiritueller Kraft aufgeladen. Zuerst mag noch keine merkliche Veränderung zu erkennen sein in dem, was du tust – nur im Wie. Dein vorrangiges Ziel ist es jetzt, dafür zu sorgen, dass Bewusstsein in alles einfließen kann, was du tust.

When you are aware that you are thinking, that awareness is not part of thinking. It is a different dimension of consciousness.

en su aliado, no en su enemigo. Esto transformará su vida milagrosamente.

You can improve your life situation, but you cannot improve your life. Life is primary. Life is your deepest inner Being. It is already whole, complete, perfect.

When you look and listen in this way, you may become aware of a subtle and at first perhaps hardly noticeable sense of calm. Some people feel it as a stillness in the background. Others call it peace. When consciousness is no longer totally absorbed by thinking, some of it remains in its formless, unconditioned, original state. This is inner space.

So the single most vital step on your journey toward enlightenment is this: learn to disidentify from your mind.

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.

Only if we are still enough inside and the noise of thinking subsides can we become aware that there is a hidden harmony here, a sacredness, a higher order in which everything has its perfect place and could not be other than what it is and the way it is.

You cannot understand it through thought, but you can sense it when you let go of thought, become still and alert, and don't try to understand or explain.

You find God the moment you realize that you don't need to seek God.

Es imposible formarse una imagen mental del Ser, y nadie puede pretender su posesión exclusiva.

Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally.

There is nothing personal in this: I am not teaching you. You are consciousness, and you are listening to yourself. There is an Eastern saying: "The teacher and the taught together create the teaching." In any case, the words in themselves are not important. They are not the Truth; they only point to it. I speak from presence, and as I speak, you may be able to join me in that state.

Being takes you beyond the polar opposites of the mind and frees you from dependency on form. Even if everything were to collapse and crumble all around you, you would still feel a deep inner core of peace. You may not be happy, but you will be at peace.

For awhile, I was left with nothing on the physical plane. I had no relationships, no job, no home, no socially defined identity. I spent almost two years sitting on park benches in a state of the most intense joy.

What you usually refer to when you say "I" is not who you are. By a monstrous act of reductionism, the infinite depth of who you are is confused with a sound produced by the vocal cords or the thought of "I" in your mind and whatever the "I" has identified with.