Quotes About Presence

Don't ever say you are sorry for "being caught in the moment". Because, at that moment, that is EXACTLY where you wanted to be.

Something precious is lost if we rush headlong into the details of life without pausing for a moment to pay homage to the mystery of life and the gift of another day.

You're pretending this isn't your life. You think it's going to happen some other time. When you're dead you'll realise you were alive now.

Sati is life. Whenever we don't have sati, when we are heedless, it's as if we are dead.

The Christian life is to live all of your life in the presence of God.

There is no condition of life in which we cannot abide in Jesus. We have to learn to abide in Him wherever we are placed.

To stay present in everyday life, it helps to be deeply rooted within yourself; otherwise, the mind, which has incredible momentum, will drag you along like a wild river.

How many times have you noticed that it's the little quiet moments in the midst of life that seem to give the rest extra-special meaning?

Life is not made up of minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, or years, but of moments. You must experience each one before you can appreciate it.

Living becomes an awesome business when you realize that you spend every moment of your life in the sight and company of an omniscient, omnipresent Creator.

Meditation allows us to directly participate in our lives instead of living life as an afterthought.

I wish I could pass my life at the foot of the holy tabernacles in which our adorable Saviour dwells.

Do not worry about the past or the future. This moment needs your attention, for this is where your life exists.

You're always with yourself, so you might as well enjoy the company.

I've come to understand that life is best lived, not conceptualized.

The important point of spiritual practice is not to try to escape your life, but to face it - exactly and completely.

A man who never sees a bluebird only half lives.

When you're experiencing what's happening right now, all of a sudden everything that happened to you in your entire life melts away.

God comes to you disguised as your life.

All the great blessings of my life are present in my thoughts today

It's a happy life, but someone is missing. It's a happy life, and someone is missing.

Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.

Students today should live fully every moment of time. This dew-like life fades away; time speeds swiftly. In this short life of ours, avoid involvement in superfluous things and just study the Way.

If you miss the moment, you miss your life.