Quotes About Presence

If there is a single secret to one-minute mindfulness, it is this: live the next sixty seconds as if your whole life depended on them, with a sense of urgency and excitement, or as if you had just arrived in a foreign land where there is nothing expected

One-minute mindfulness will help you reconnect with those precious times when you believed anything was possible, when you lived in the present moment, fully and completely.

Don't move," he said, in a voice that was forty percent gravel and sixty percent inert materials.

Your presence in this house is almost as enormous and painful as your absence.

Words themselves are all the ghosts we need.

Christians are the salt of the earth...Nothing grows where they've been.

In the stillness of life, we find our higher self. Be still and God is with you. Be still, and you are never alone.

When you can see God in small things, you'll see God in all things.

I don't believe makeup and the right hairstyle alone can make a woman beautiful. The most radiant woman in the room is the one full of life and experience.

Your endowment is, to receive all those ordinances in the house of the Lord, which are necessary for you, after you have departed this life, to enable you to walk back to the presence of the Father.

Lead such a life, that, when you die, the people may mourn you, and while you are alive they long for your company.

Our journey is about being more deeply involved in life, and yet less attached to it.

Where you stand, where you are, that's what your life is right there, regardless of how painful it is or how enjoyable it is. That's what it is.

I want to live my life, not record it.

Life is not a matter of milestones, but moments.

As you walk and eat and travel, be where you are. Otherwise you will miss most of your life.

Stand fully in the now moment with gratitude, enthusiasm, openness, and readiness to respond to Life as it greets you.

The presence of death annihilates all superstitions. We are the children of death, and it is death that rescues us from the deceptions of life. In the midst of life he calls us and summons us to him.

If you learn to respond as if it's the first day in your life and the very last day, then you will have spent this day very well.

The art of life is to stay wide open and be vulnerable, yet at the same time to sit with the mystery and the awe and with the unbearable pain - to just be with it all.

We tend to think of meditation in only one way. But life itself is a meditation.

Be yourself, fill your life with good people, and don't get a big head. It can all be gone tomorrow.

We have more possibilities available in each moment than we realize.

Life grows lovely where you are.