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Quotes About Presence

Don't audit life. Show up and make the most of it now.
~ Regina Brett
The meaning of life is found in openness to being and "being present" in full awareness.
~ Thomas Merton
It's very difficult to do street casting with girls, because a beautiful girl in real life won't necessarily have the silhouette or the presence needed for a show.
~ Christophe Lemaitre
If I dismiss the ordinary—waiting for the special, the extreme, the extraordinary to happen - I may just miss my life.
~ Dani Shapiro
There is no script. Live your life. Soak it all in.
~ Dick Costolo
Your true evolution is not what you do out there. That's secondary. Your true evolution is to do with the arising of awareness in you as you go about your life.
~ Eckhart Tolle
I will come back as a little breeze. You will feel me on your face, and you will know that I am still listening. So you can still talk to me.
~ Elizabeth Berg
The experience of eternity right here and now is the function of life. Heaven is not the place to have the experience; here is the place to have the experience.
~ Joseph Campbell
My focus, my life, my world is now. You just can't plan the future.
~ Juliette Lewis
Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by
~ Lou Holtz
Everything can become a meditation if you live it totally and intensely. And then your life becomes whole.
~ Rajneesh
You're here, you're breathing, you are the recipient of an extraordinary act of generosity called life.
~ Rob Bell
What will happen in your life if you accept the invitation to stillness cannot be known ... what can be known is you will have a larger capacity to truly meet whatever appears.
~ Gangaji
Each moment of life is only as precious as is our ability to attend to it.
~ Guy Finley
Everything you do leaves traces, doesn't it. The life you've lived is written all over you, for those who can read.
~ Jo Nesbo
I'm always relieved when someone is delivering a eulogy and I realize I'm listening to it.
~ George Carlin
If four of you are playing hide and seek you'll only ever find the other three. For you are already right here. So what on earth is it that you're looking for? You are the very thing that you seek.
~ Rasheed Ogunlaru
I would like to live. . . open to time and death painlessly, noticing everything, remembering nothing, choosing the given with a fierce and pointed will.
~ Annie Dillard
Releasing the chains to the material means experiencing life within each cell, moment to moment, each moment renewed.
~ Barbara Brennan
I'm not sure I can explain the nature of Jack Kennedy's charm, but he took life just as it came.
~ Gene Tierney
To know that every moment — regardless of how it comes wrapped — is a gift greater than you can give yourself, is to be well on your way to a life without fear.
~ Guy Finley
I don't want to be remembered, I want to be here!
~ Hannah Kent
Life is too precious to spend it with important people.
~ Harry Partch
Thinking is the problem. Thinking is hazardous to your progress in life. Don't think - feel.
~ Iyanla Vanzant