Quotes About Presence

people should be able to say of me: He has lived, therefore he lives.

Isn't elegance forgetting what one is wearing?

Time is as necessary for remembering as it is for forgetting. Even the smallest embrace of pain needs time larger than a pause; the greatest pause requires an eternity, the greatest hurt a lifetime. A lifetime is longer than eternity: an eternity can exist without human presence.

when he walks, he sounds like a tree still full of dead leaves holding on.

I have now transformed into a sensitive; a person who is able to detect when spirits are present. It's a skill that's evolved over hundreds of paranormal investigations and has taught me that the human body is the best means of paranormal detection. I've become a fine-tuned instrument of spiritual sensitivity.

God is always present. The question is, how present are we?

True prayer is a bursting forth of the soul to God. What can be more natural and more human than turning to God's listening presence with our thanks and our burdens?

The dead are too much with us.

If you're in a hurry to find happiness, slow down. Give it a chance to catch up with you.

When walking, walk. When eating, eat.

Knock on the sky and listen to the sound.

The Perfect Man uses his mind like a mirror - going after nothing, welcoming nothing, responding but not storing.

Don't go in and hide; don't come out and shine; stand stock-still in the middle.

Absorb yourself in the realities of the task at hand to the point of forgetting your own existence. Then you will have no leisure to delight in life (4:14) or abhor death. That would make this mission of yours quite doable!

My father, his spirit is with me constantly, and I'm a believer in that world and the world of dreams and that stuff.

I kept motionless and tried to think like a tree.

Look at me; look at me. Can you see; can you see? I am here; you are there. No more fear; no more fear. In our heart; in our mind we are smart; we are kind. We will find; we fill find joyful heart and blissful mind.

Never pursue happiness, just be happy.

To fulfill our lives and be happy, we have to enjoy the little things, see the beauty around us instead of waiting for big things to enjoy, or you will just pass life by waiting.

Your smile is the twinkle of happiness. Your heart is the source of kindness. Your presence is the source of joyfulness. Your thoughts are symbols of greatness.

Scripture keeps pressing us to hear this: God loves what is ubiquitous.

True courage comes not just from feeling confident and strong, but from being the honest, authentic expression of yourself. Think about how audacious it is to really believe in yourself. It tathat your presence on this earth matters.

It takes a warrior's courage to acknowledge that your point of view matters, that your truth matters, that your gifts matter, and that your presence on this earth matters. You don't have to earn this right; it's yours as part of your birthright.

Maybe I should stop thinking so much, and start feeling. Maybe thinking is over-rated.