Quotes About Presence

To say yes to reality is to host eternity.

No moment is ever trivial, since any moment points to the exit into enlightenment.

The image of Yahweh in S's court history is an image suggestive of J herself, a powerful presence largely in the background, great enough to forgive David his flaws with a constant belovedness, a "lovingkindness"—in Hebrew, the word chesed, which weds love to ethics. David was beloved, loved as no man before him—by Yahweh.

Human beings are not made to take shortcuts,... You're to live your life, moment by moment. Your life isn't here to entertain you - it's to be lived.

The rocks don't lie: He was here, and he came because God and Nature are One.

being altogether receptive; in letting the world do all, and suffering the spirit of the hour to pass unobstructed through the mind.

The presence of religion in science fiction is hardly surprising given its tendency to question limits and boundaries, and what could be more challenging than the limitation of mortality itself?

Non-alcoholic ways in which parents may not 'be there' for the children can include: - violence and sexual abuse - workholism - gambling - transquilliser addiction- - womanizing - frequent journeys abroad - death - suicide - being unemployed or unemployable - frequent hospitalisation - mental or physical handicap - excessive religiosity - rigid rules and regulations - homes where children are never allowed to be themselves but must always be pleasing to adults

Any place is sacred ground, for it can become a place of encounter with the divine Presence.

Try pausing right before and right after undertaking a new action, even something simple like putting a key in a lock to open a door. Such pauses take a brief moment, yet they have the effect of decompressing time and centering you.

Reading is an act of resistance in a landscape of distraction.... We regain the world by withdrawing from it just a little by stepping back from the noise.

Wherever you are is called Here and you must treat it as a powerful stranger.

You should stay alive As often as possible and keep yourself open to anything out of place and everything with nowhere else to go, to carry what's left of your voice out and beyond, into, over, and under, past, within, outside, between, among, across, along, and up and around and to be beside yourself when the spirit moves you…

What if you knew, now, that you wouldn't leave anything behind. That you couldn't leave anything behind. That no one will remember you, and no one will have anything to remember you by. That you are, in fact, just someone who was there, and that's it.

Beauty is the harvest of presence.

What I have not seen or failed to see I leave as a gift.

Put down the weight of your aloneness and ease into the conversation. The kettle is singing even as it pours you a drink, the cooking pots have left their arrogant aloofness and seen the good in you at last. All the birds and creatures of the world are unutterably themselves. Everything is waiting for you.

What is precious inside us does not care to be known by the mind in ways that diminish its presence.

Enough. These few words are enough. If not these words, this breath. If not this breath, this sitting here. This opening to life we have refused again and again until now. Until now.

Life can find you only if you are paying real attention to something other than you own concerns, if you can hear and see the essence of otherness in the world, if you can treat the world as if it is not just a backdrop to your own journey, if you can have a relationship with the world that isn't based on triumphing over it or complaining about it.

Out of the quiet emerges the sheer incarnational presence of the world, a presence that seems to demand a moving internal symmetry in the one breathing and listening equal to its own breathing, listening elemental powers.

The antidote to exhaustion is not necessarily rest but wholeheartedness

Work among all its abstracts, is actually intimacy, the place where the self meets the world.

work is achieved not by creating a hermetic space sealed off from the world, but nel mezzo, in the middle of everything.