Quotes About Presence

At the end of my life, with just one breath left, if you come, I'll sit up and sing.

The soul lives there in the silent breath.

I'm a conscious parent when I believe... a parent's presence in their child's life is of paramount value and provides the foundation for their sense of worth.

Managing life from our mental control towers, we have separated ourselves from our bodies and hearts.

If we are always demanding something out of life, then we will never be content. But if we accept life as it is, then we will know contentment.

Paradise is where I am

There are some people who walk into a room and they oxygenate it, by their very being there's fresh air. Then there are those who come in with the smell of death and they suck the life out.

The Lord is my Rock. He has always been there, always present at good times and bad; and to me when I feel His presence, my life is full.

Life should be a constant vision of God's presence. Here is our defense against being led away by the gauds and shows of earth's vulgar attractions.

For me, writing has always come out of living a fairly to-the-bone kind of life, just really being present to a lot of life. The writing has been really a byproduct of that.

To be present - really, truly present - in art and life requires empathizing with uncertainty and wrestling with risk.

Everybody asks me, 'So, what are you doing now?' Why must I be doing something? All my life I've been doing something. All my life I've been doing. For now, I'm being -- being quiet, being grateful.

If you allow yourself to fully feel the life you're in - not conceptually, but viscerally in the present moment - then that is inherently meaningful.

If you are perpetually angry, depressed, confused, and unloving, or your attention is elsewhere, it won't matter how successful you become or who is in your life - you won't enjoy any of it.

Life is too short no matter what party you are with.

All living beings are spiritual beings because all of life breathes. Breath is an indication that spirit is present.

I was told having a website would help me. I have yet to figure out why my life story needs to be on the web.

It is no more possible to live in the future than it is to live in the past. If life is not now, it is never.

Battle with unconditioned breath the unconditioned air. Shun electric wire. Communicate slowly. Live a three-dimensional life; stay away from screens.

Listen - life is really going on, right now, around us. Do you see it? Sometimes I lose it but if I sit still and listen, it comes back, and then I think, How funny, this is what being alive is.

Real life is happening outside and not in front of a computer.

For any kind of mindfulness training to work for you, you have to be present in your life. That includes being present—mind and body—when your emotions are stirring things up. That's when you want to be clear about your thoughts, and clear about what you see, hear, and feel. That's when mindfulness really becomes your greatest friend.

So when emotions come up, mind the gap. First feel them, then hold still without reacting, and then look—look at the gap.

The presence of gods has been enormously comforting as we have continued to dutifully cross the stage of life, going about or daily tasks, yet knowing that Pale Death was waiting in the wings.