Quotes About Presence

The presence of a higher, namely, of the spiritual element is essential to its perfection.

Over everything stands its daemon or soul, and, as the form of the thing is reflected by the eye, so the soul of the thing is reflected by a melody.

Just because you are seeing divine light, experiencing waves of bliss, or conversing with Gods and Goddesses is no reason to not know your zip code.

Prolong not the past Invite not the future Do not alter your innate wakefulness Fear not appearances There in nothing more than this

Early in the journey you wonder how long the journey will take and whether you will make it in this lifetime. Later you will see that where you are going is HERE and you will arrive NOW...so you stop asking.

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

A moment comes when other is no longer other.

Now is now. Are you going to be here or not?

When we're identified with Awareness, we're no longer living in a world of polarities. Everything is present at the same time.

I think the message is that you don't need to go to anywhere else to find what you are seeking.

You give up not meditating. It's called meditation action. There's no way out of it. Meditation means to be constantly extricating yourself from the clinging of mind.

IT'S BETTER TO SEE GOD IN EVERYTHING THAN TO TRY TO FIGURE IT OUT.

When you are already in Detroit, you don't have to take a bus to get there.

And suddenly I realized that he knew everything that was going on in my head, all the time, and that he still loved me. Because who we are is behind all that.

Oh! I'm going to do good things for my child. Balony! That's all ego. Just work on yourself And: Everytime you work on yourself, you get calmer you hear more you sense more you are more you're more present What are you offering a child? not a set of social roles passing in the night. . . . youre offering a child here and now — ness The treasure of consciousness The treasure of awareness.

The art of listening comes from a quiet mind and an open heart.

Free yourself from the illusion of good and bad days. Labeling time makes us nostalgic of the past and demanding of the future. There is only here and now. Let it be.

We have what we seek. It is there all the time, and if we give it time it will make itself known to us. —Thomas Merton

The epitome of the human realm is to be stuck in a huge traffic jam of discursive thought. —Chogyam Trungpa

Allow that you are at this moment not in the wrong place in your life. Consider the possibility that there have been no errors in the game. Just consider it. Consider that there is not an error, and everything that's come down on your plate is the way it is and here we are.

Don't think about the past. Just be here now.

The power of God is within me. The grace of God surrounds me.

We often think that vulnerability is a kind of weakness, but there's a kind of vulnerability that is actually strength and presence.

When you are in the presence of unconditional love, you are in the optimum environment for your heart to open.