Quotes About Presence

Let me be something every minute of every hour of my life...And when I sleep, let me dream all the time so that not one little piece of living is ever lost.

Spend unbroken chunks of time with the most important people in your life.

Every moment of life is precious and can never happen again and therefore is a reason to appreciate, be grateful for and celebrate the fact that you are alive.

In taking life for granted, we fail to notice it.

The older I get, the more I feel those kinds of ghosts - especially the women in my life - moving out of the shadows a bit more and becoming more present in my life.

If you pay close attention to each day, you will discover the magic moment.

Before there was a proper understanding and a sense of God's presence, the idea that everything would one day end was utterly desolating.

Life is too short to be in a hurry.

Keep your life so constantly in touch with God that His surprising power can break through at any point.

If you think back over your experiences, the chances are that you will find the finest moments in your life were those when you completely forgot yourself.

If you're too in your head and you're not in the moment, life passes you by.

Spiritual security means you are fully alive and comfortable in your life as it is, without expecting anything.

Babies are saved when Christians show up.

Everything you need to know about life is in one breath.

Just watching an animal closely can take you out of your mind and bring you into the present moment, which is where the animal lives all the time - surrendered to life.

. . . but mostly, given another shot at life, I would seize every minute - look at it and really see it - live it - and never give it back.

The greatest failure in life is the failure to participate in life.

Life without zazen is like winding your clock without setting it. It runs perfectly well, but it dosen't tell time.

Enlightenment is the complete awareness of life without mental modifications.

To maintain a powerful life force, forget yourself, forget about living and dying, and bring your full attention into this moment.

The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the physical presence.

To the truly benevolent mind, indeed, nothing is more satisfactory than to hear of a miser denying himself the necessaries of life a little too far and ridding us of his presence altogether.

Die before you die and find that there is no death.

I only live the full life when I live fully in the moment.