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Quotes About Presence

Hold up your hands before your eyes. You are looking at the hands of God.
~ Lawrence Kushner
A realized one sends out waves of spiritual influence in his aura, which draw many people towards him. Yet he may sit in a cave and maintain complete silence.
~ Ramana Maharshi
The most holy and important practice in the spiritual life is the presence of God - that is, every moment to take great pleasure that God is with you
~ Brother Lawrence
There's much more in any given moment than we usually perceive, and that we ourselves are much more than we usually perceive. When you know that, part of you can stand outside the drama of your life.
~ Ram Dass
Do not pursue what should be, but understand what is.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
Mental alertness is not awareness. Mental alertness only enhances your survival instincts. It does not take you towards liberation.
~ Jaggi Vasudev
I never really cared for the things of this world. It was the glow of Your Presence that filled it with beauty.
~ Rumi
Are you looking for the Holy One? I am in the next seat. My shoulder is against yours.
~ Kabir
If you just live totally, you will dissolve lots of karma. Living totally means that you experience anything that comes fully and intensely.
~ Jaggi Vasudev
Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness.
~ Eckhart Tolle
Simply be present with your own shifting energies and with the unpredictabilit y of life as it unfolds.
~ Pema Chodron
We live in a spiritual Universe. God is in, through, around and for us.
~ Ernest Holmes
Listen to your life. All moments are key moments.
~ Frederick Buechner
A warrior must learn to make every act count, since he is going to be here in this world for only a short while, in fact, too short for witnessing all the marvels of it.
~ Carlos Castaneda
It is when we are trapped in incessant streams of compulsive thinking that the universe really disintegrates for us, and we lose the ability to sense the interconnectedness of all that exists.
~ Eckhart Tolle
When you let go of your attention for a little while, do not think you may recover it whenever you please.
~ Epictetus
Stop leaving and you will arrive, Stop searching and you will see, Stop running away and you will be found.
~ Laozi
Doing is never enough if you neglect Being.
~ Eckhart Tolle
My spiritual goal is to one day walk into God and disappear.
~ Thomas Merton
Meditation is one of the ways in which the spiritual man keeps himself awake.
~ Thomas Merton
The spiritual world is hidden and perfectly revealed in the physical world.
~ Richard Rohr
The quicker you are in attaching verbal or mental labels to things, people, or situations, the more shallow and lifeless your reality becomes, and the more deadened you become to reality
~ Eckhart Tolle
You cannot be both unhappy, and fully present in the Now.
~ Eckhart Tolle
Practice presence -- embrace the place where life happens.
~ Eckhart Tolle