Quotes About Presence

Mindfulness is both a state of being and a daily spiritual practice, a form of meditation.

Everything I need now is here

We don't sit in meditation to become good meditators. We sit in meditation so that we'll be more awake in our lives.

Wherever we may come alive, that is the area in which we are spiritual.

The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is 'look under foot.' You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.

The Divine is constantly waiting at your doorstep to move in if only you allow the necessary space.

It's easy to operate under the illusion that what we are doing is so important we cannot stop doing it. ... Stopping is a spiritual act. It is the refuge where we drink life in.

Once you have had a glimpse of awareness or Presence, you know it firsthand. It is no longer just a concept in your mind.

Become conscious of being conscious.

Stopping is a spiritual art. It is the refuge where we drink life in.

All of the larger than life questions about our presence here on earth and what gifts we have to offer are spiritual questions. To seek answers to these questions is to seek a sacred path.

Being must be felt. It can't be thought.

For the Divine to function through you, it is important to make every breath, every pulsation in the body, and your very existence an offering.

Looking deeply at life as it is in this very moment, the meditator dwells in stability and freedom.

You become most powerful in whatever you do if the action is performed for its own sake rather than as a means to protect, enhance, or conform to your role identity.

Just beneath the surface of all experiences in life is God's, or the Guru's, compassionate face.

To understand what is right meditation there must be an awareness of the operation of one's own consciousness, and then there is complete attention.

The ancient spiritual tradition is that God gives himself fully to us in silence and solitude.

Are you here to experience life or think about it?

Do nothing, and leave nothing undone. ["Doing nothing" is what happens when the doer disappears, it isn't something that one does or chooses not to do.]

When you live in surrender, something comes through you into the world of duality that is not of this world.

Sit, be still, and listen, because you're drunk and we're at the edge of the roof.

Focus your attention on the Now and tell me what problem you have at this moment.

I get rid of the thoughts, and I get in my witness, which is down in my spiritual heart. The witness that witnesses being.