Quotes About Presence

So Rita and I decided that the most subversive, revolutionary thing I could do was to show up for my life and not be ashamed.

Most people don't live aware lives. They live mechanical lives, mechanical thoughts - generally somebody else's - mechanical emotions, mechanical actions, mechanical reactions.

If you are mentally somewhere else, you miss real life

For me, to catch, to celebrate the reality and life and friends and everything around me the very moment it happens - that's what is, that's what I'm possessed by.

I urge you to please notice when you are happy.

I kind of limp along like so many of us do in these realms. Occasionally I've felt the grace of another presence in my life. But I can't develop any kind of spiritual structure on that.

If you can see it, hear it, feel it, taste it, touch it, or smell it, you can be present with it. It is of the present moment, and so it brings to you the opportunity to be present with it.

When I feel like I'm in a rut, I remember it's the little things in life that are important, like riding a bike with a friend or eating ice cream with my baby niece.

Zen is just a lifestyle, your everyday life. It is doing your best at your job, relationships, health, hobbies, and other daily activities!

The harder you chase something, the faster you go and the less you're able to let life meet life. If you're having difficulty coming up with new ideas, then slow down.

Live the actual moment. Only this moment is life.

Don't go in and out of meditative spaces - stay there with that awareness, always. Everything in life is meditative.

In life's orchestra, the bike is the double bass. Hard to forget it

He knows that the most important words in all languages are the small words.

I suddenly realized I was racing around so much, I could never catch up with my life

Are our lives truly filled with the presence of God? How many things take the place of God in my life each day?

All of life is energy and we are transmitting it at every moment.

I want to know if you can see beauty even when it's not pretty, every day, and if you can source your own life from its presence.

Meditation has only one meaning, and that is going beyond the mind and becoming a witness. In your witnessing is the miracle - the whole mystery of life

Be - don't try to become.

Live each moment as if you were going to die the next, and then there will be a great intensity and a great passion. You will be aflame with life. That being aflame is what being divine is to me.

I want to lay up like that, to float unstructured, without ambition or anxiety. I want to inhabit my life like a porch.

In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

The life that I have chosen gives me my full hours of enjoyment for the balance of my life. The sun will not rise, or set, without my notice, and thanks.