Quotes About Presence

If you don't have a bold and enthusiastic buoyant presence, you won't have any influence.

?ovek ostavlja sebe svuda gde je voleo. Onoga koga volimo, uvek možemo na?i tu gde smo zajedno bili.

Slaves to our media delivery devices, we are ever available to this vague, demanding elsewhere, and our ability to experience the "now" is dissolving.

If you are unable to find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?

Forgetting oneself is opening oneself

Prefer to be defeated in the presence of the wise than to excel among fools.

If you want to travel the Way of Buddhas and Zen masters, then expect nothing, seek nothing, and grasp nothing.

People always ask me how long it takes to do my hair. I don't know, I'm never there.

Mainly he appears in people's reveries and dreams for the purpose of inspiration and comfort.

The Liturgy may be considered a school for acquiring four fruits: the presence of God, sorrow for sin, joy, and prayer.

She was the radiant center of any circle she entered. And she bore the mark. It was visible to those who had eyes to see, a heart to feel.

The power of the dead is that we think they see us all the time. The dead have a presence. Is there a level of energy composed solely of the dead? They are also in the ground, of course, asleep and crumbling. Perhaps we are what they dream.

By the time of the Revolution there was in each colony an accumulated body of slave law that did not so much establish slavery as acknowledge its presence, sanction it, and regulate its conduct.

Quality time is not the same as the everydayness of being together. Let's neither glorify nor undervalue.

Así que, oh Señor, en todo y por todo engrandeciste a tu pueblo, y le honraste, ni te desdeñaste de asistirlo en todo tiempo y en todo lugar.

If you live in a past dream, you don't enjoy what is happening right now because you will always wish it to be different than it is. There is no time to miss anyone or anything because you are alive. Not enjoying what is happening right now is living in the past and being only half alive. This leads to self pity, suffering and tears.

wasn't conscious of anything I'd left behind and felt no regrets about leaving family or possessions. It was as if God had removed anything negative or worrisome from my consciousness, and I could only rejoice at being together with these wonderful people.

To be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord to those who love him and know him.

My feeling has been that once we're actually in God's presence, we will never return to earth again, because it will be empty and meaningless by comparison

As I ponder this, I don't believe my greeting committee said, "Oh no, he doesn't get to stay." They're still there at the gate. They're waiting. For them, time is not passing. Everything is in the eternal now—even if I can't put that into words. Even if ten more years pass, or thirty, in heaven it will be only an instant before I'm back there again.

Every moment has the possibility of delighting us, nurturing us, supporting us - if we are here to see it. Life is a tremendous gift, but most of us are missing it because we are watching a mental movie of our lives instead. As we learn to trust in the moment and to value awareness, we learn how to turn off the internal mood projector and start living a much more interesting life - the one we are actually starring in.

In fact, life is our greatest teacher. Whatever we are doing can be instructive, whether we are at the office, or talking to our spouse, or driving a car on the freeway. If we are present to our experiences, the impressions of our activities will be fresh and alive, and we will always learn something new from them. But if we are not present, every moment will be like every other, and nothing of the preciousness of life will touch us.

That makes the air very sweet, just being able to smell it and know you're going to keep smelling it. You're already ahead on your day.

Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it."12