Quotes About Presence

In the zazen posture, your mind and body have, great power to accept things as they are, whether agreeable or disagreeable.

Well, the United States is a Pacific power. And we have always had a presence in the Pacific.

The look of a king is itself a deed.

Appearance is a type of power.

When you are present, when your attention is fully and intensely in the Now, Being can be felt, but it can never be understood mentally.

How strange too and unfamiliar to think that one had been loved, that one's presence had once had the power to make a difference between happiness and dullness in another's day.

God is not a Power residing in the clouds. He is an unseen Power residing within us and nearer to us than finger nails to the flesh.

If you adopt the body language of a power player, it will greatly facilitate your ability to be a power player.

As long as we're here, we are the occupying power. It's a very ugly word, but it's true.

The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.

Have we ever thought to consider that the need to be loved grows because of its absence, but that love also grows because of its presence? And does this not speak to the power of love?

A wise man once said, 'Life is like breathing. If you try to hold it, you'll lose it. But let it come & go & you'll always be connected to it.'

People don't need to know how good you are. Just smile, just slay and just show.

Writing a story is like going on a date—you will spoil it if you aren't living in the moment.

Those who think, Present.

Let every step you take upon the earth be as a prayer.

For the faithful, Spirit-filled Christian, every place becomes a place of prayer.

Prayer is an act of love. Words are not needed.

Prayer means that we have come boldly into the throne room and we are standing in God's presence.

We should seek not so much to pray but to become prayer.

Prayer is not a painful effort to gain from God help in the varying needs of life. Prayer is the desire to possess God Himself

If you have ever prayed in the dawn you will ask yourself why you were so foolish as not to do it always: it is difficult to get into communion with God in the midst of the hurly-burly of the day.

You need not cry very loud; he is nearer to us than we think.

Prayer is not what is done by us, but rather what is done by the Holy Spirit in us.