Quotes About Presence

How easily we get trapped in that which is not essential - in looking good, winning at competition, gathering power and wealth - when simply being alive is the gift beyond measure.

Being one with life is being one with Now. You then realize that you don't live your life, but life lives you. Life is the dancer, and you are the dance.

When you can no longer feel the life that you are, you are likely to try to fill up your life with things.

Life is already too short to waste on speed.

The worst thing that happens in life is not death. The worst thing would be to miss it. . . . I think the great danger in life is not showing up.

It is not the hearing that improves life, but the listening.

Listen to the silence. Listen to your life. Be present, not just think about what's going on next week, next month.

Nothing is more precious than being in the present moment. Fully alive, fully aware.

How you die out in me: down to the last worn-out knot of breath you're there, with a splinter of life.

Life is a series of family photos in which eventually you stop showing up.

If you look up into His face and say, "Yes, Lord, whatever it costs," at that moment He'll flood your Life with His presence and power.

The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet.

Just this whole journey [of life] has been a blessing from God, so for me to be here [on Earth] I'm just taking it one day at a time and really enjoying it.

All I want to say is that life is very fragile. We should live every moment and cherish what we have been given.

Life isn't something you possess. It's something you take part in, and you witness.

To be able to do one thing at a time is the whole art of life.

Zazen practice and everyday activity are one thing. We call zazen everyday life, and everyday life zazen.

Contemplation is the loving sense of this life, this presence and this eternity.

When you get to a higher level of consciousness, though, when you get into a spiritual approach to life, you are not trying to get someplace else...

The real enemies of our life are the 'oughts' and the 'ifs.' They pull us backward into the unalterable past and forward into the unpredictable future. But real life takes place in the here and now.

Doing life consciously was a compelling notion to me.

Sometimes being away, on location, I feel like I'm away for much of my own life. I want to be better at staying connected.

The life of the spirit is not our life, but the life of God within us.

When we're in our true being, the purpose of life is to feel that every moment is the purpose.