Quotes About Presence

When I've come inside you, lain on you, felt you tremble, felt that silence between us that has everything…you don't think God is there?

If we fail to see God in the sunshine in the pillar of cloud, then in the pillar of fire by night his presence is more visible and emphatic.

Slowness, he explained, nurtures attention, and speed shatters it.

If you picture of a perfect After-life, it's being with the people you love all the time. He asked me: Why wouldn't you choose today: when you're still alive, to be truely present with the people you love? Why would you rather be lost in a haze of distractions!?

Mental health is produced socially: the presence or absence of mental health is above all a social indicator and therefore requires social, as well as individual, solutions.

Flow can only come when you are monotasking

If your picture of a perfect afterlife is being with the people you love all the time, he asked me, why wouldn't you choose today—while you're still alive—to be truly present with the people you love? Why would you rather be lost in a haze of distractions?

You feel you are purely present in the moment. You experience a loss of self-consciousness. In this state it's like your ego has vanished and you have merged with the task—like you are the rock you are climbing.

When you are approaching death, I thought, you won't think about your reinforcements—the likes and retweets—you'll think about your moments of flow.

How do you slow down in a world that is speeding up?

What's happening with our cellphones is that we put a thing in our pocket that's with us all the time that always offers an easy thing to do, rather than the important thing.

Flow can only come when you are monotasking—when you choose to set aside everything else and do one thing.

We can't live like this!" I said. "You don't know how to be present! You are missing your life! You're afraid of missing out—that's why you are checking your screen all the time! By doing that, you are guaranteeing you are missing out! You are missing your one and only life! You can't see the things that are right in front of you, the things you have been longing to see since you were a little boy! None of these people can! Look at them!

A life without love, without the presence of the beloved, is nothing but a mere magic-latern show. We draw out slide after slide, swiftly tiring of each, and pushing it back to make haste for the next.

The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be.

Think of you! I do not think of you; you are always before my soul.

Aber ich habe sie gehabt, ich habe das Herz gefühlt, die große Seele, in deren Gegenwart ich mir schien mehr zu sein, als ich war, weil ich alles war, was ich sein konnte.

Finally it has penetrated my thick skull. This life-this moment-is no dress rehearsal. This is it.

The spiritual life is not a life before, after, or beyond our everyday existence. No, the spiritual life can only be real when it is lived in the midst of the pains and joys of the here and now.

To enjoy the world without judgment is what a realized life is like.

What can we do but keep on breathing in and out, modest and willing, and in our places?

Life cannot be seen by an unmoved spectator.