Quotes About Presence

But you have gone now, all of you that were so beautiful when you were quick with life. Yet not gone, for you are still a living truth inside my mind. So how are you dead, my brothers and sisters, and all of you , when you live with me as surely as I live with myself.

This seems clear enough: When truly present in nature, we do use all our senses at the same time, which is the optimum state of learning.

I turned round, mechanically, like an automaton. Such passivity was worse than undignified, it was galling; I knew that well. I resented it with secret rage. But in that room, in that presence, I was invertebrate.

Thank you...for gracing my life with your lovely presence, for adding the sweet measure of your soul to my existence.

Your mind must always go, even while you're shaking hands and going through all the maneuvers. I developed the ability long ago to do one thing while thinking about another.

The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention.

Our breathing has been a friend that has accompanied us through every moment of life; it has never deserted us no matter how terrible we have felt. Friendship in itself connotes a quality of feelings that has elements of warmth, trust, and welcome. Our hearts always relax when we greet a friend. Mandala of Being, Richard Moss MD

when our minds are unconsciously in the future, the present disappears; it is simply not available to us. We substitute heading toward our lives for actually living.

It is for this reason that your ego cannot let you become fully present, for the moment you are, it recedes and there is only awareness, only being. And this scares your ego to death, because it hasn't yet understood its relationship to awareness.

In your hurry to keep Christmas, you have forgotten Christmas. The truest gift of Christmas is the gift of self.

Some people spend so much time hunting treasure that they fail to see it all around them. It's like sifting through gold to find the silt.

Peace and joy are two main fruits of Christ's kingdom. Let the world be as it will, if we cannot rejoice in the world, yet we may rejoice in the Lord. His presence makes any condition comfortable.

There is an empty space next to you in the backseat of the station wagon. Make it the shape of everything you need. Now say hello.

You are here. You are here. You're still right here.

It's a blessing: every day someone shows up at the fence. And when no one shows up, a different kind of blessing. In the wrong light anyone can look like a darkness.

Don't move. Keep staring straight into my eyes.

He's next to you, right next to you in fact, so close, or . . . he isn't.

Are you there, sweetheart? Do you know me?

Here you are on the TV, saying Watch me, just watch me.

I'll be right here. I'm waiting.

You just wanted to prove there was one safe place, just one safe place where you could love him. You have not found that place yet. You have not made that place yet. You are here. You are here. You're still right here.

I talk to you as if you're really there.

Accidents never happen when the room is empty.

Liberation is not a state, you cannot achieve it and there is no future.