Quotes About Presence

The twin flames of wisdom and trust continue to burn away any obscurations to our awareness of love's presence until we come to abide in the understanding that we are always cared for, always loved, always cheered on, regardless of the difficulties we may be experiencing.

Place yourself in the egg of light and practice Metta for at least two people whom you will be coming in contact with today or this week.

To pray in the midst of the mundane is simply and strongly to assert that this dull and tiring day is holy and its simple labors are the stuff of God's saving presence for me now.

I have come to understand that the voice of God is all around me. God is not a silent God. God is speaking to me all the time. In everything. Through everyone. I am only now beginning to listen, let alone to hear.

God is indeed everywhere in everything at all times—in the abstruse as well as the luminous, whether we ourselves can see the hand of God in this moment or not.

We must take our whole selves there—mind and heart—as well as our bodies. And we must be there five minutes before prayer starts.

They sat so still that each of them might have been alone.

If you don't look interested nobody'll know you are.

In being with dying, we arrive at a natural crucible of what it means to love and be loved. And we can ask ourselves this: Knowing that death is inevitable, what is most precious today?

Nowhere to go, nothing to do … Lost and found in the moment … Just practice this … Maybe here is where we find wholeheartedness and our true freedom.

action, calls us to turn or return to the world with

Realizing fully the true nature of place is to talk its language and hold its silence.

The second tenet, bearing witness, calls us to be present with the suffering and joy in the world, as it is, without judgment or any attachment to outcome.

Don't matter if you believe in them or not. If they're there, they're there,' Mrs. Phipps said.

If he didn't go away from here, he'd still have to be here," Debbie said. She gave a little screech. "Oh, no! Don't say things like that, Jeff! You scared me!" "You're the one who said it, not me." "Well, you made me think it!

When you begin to losing your audience, do not get loud; get quiet, make them find you and come back to you.

Funny how an absence can feel like a presence, like that space practically glows with her outline and make me notice how she's not here.

Presence is not an object. It is the openness that beholds it all.

Basic awareness meditation is really nothing more or less than giving open, nonjudgmental attention to present-moment, non-conceptual experiencing. You don't have to be in the lotus position. This can happen on the city bus.

True freedom is the willingness for life to be as it is, no matter how it appears. This willingness is expressed in the Abrahamic religions as "Thy will be done." Paradoxically, in completely accepting everything just as it is, there is space for something truly new and creative to enter the picture. And this space is never not here.

Awareness by its very nature doesn't need anything to be other than exactly how it is. It doesn't go to war with the way things are, it simply exposes them to the light. It allows everything to undo itself. Awareness is unconditional love, absolute devotion. It accepts everything.

The trick is not to make an idea or a system out of this openness, a new dogma.

In simple presence with what is right here now, be it joyful or painful, an amazing freedom reveals itself. It cannot be described or explained in words. It is the freedom to be totally, effortlessly the way things are at this moment. ?—?Toni Packer

As I realize more and more deeply, the greatest gift we can offer to ourselves and the world is to be awake and rooted in love.