Quotes About Presence

Seven years sober. I'm really grateful. It's really lovely to be present in my life.

We can so easily deceive ourselves, mistaking the presence of physical bodies in a crowd for the existence of spiritual life in a community.

Don't always worry about what your next line is supposed to be. There is no script. Live your life. Be in this moment.

To have your attention in the Now is not a denial of what is needed in your life. It is recognition of what is primary.

Am I incapable of living with the one sole guarantee, that I'm still here? Am I afraid of living because I fear death?

Turn off the AM Radio and get invited to your own life.

We are simply committing ourselves to paying attention to our life. We use meditation to help us in that attention process. We are not trying to become good meditators. We are trying to wake up.

Acting is about enhancing your life, not representing something that's missing.

There are no great fanfares for the truly great moments of your life. Just dripping taps and the sound of your own footsteps, walking from one room into another

I am not my thoughts, feelings, circumstances of changing events in life, I am the awareness, the alertness, the changeless which remains present behind it.

If we devote ourselves to the life at hand, the rest will follow. For life, it seems, reveals itself through those willing to live. Anything else, no matter how beautiful, is just advertising.

This very moment of your life, if you experience it fully, will show you astonishing wonders and exquisite delights.

Mindfulness is loving all the details of our lives, and awareness is the natural thing that happens: life begins to open up, and you realize that you're always standing at the center of the world.

Those who miss meditation miss the whole dance of life.

I never say "Action" or "Cut." Never. I think that would disturb the life from happening in and around everything.

I want to live so fully in the Spirit that...every act of my life may be an act of worship.

I absolutely would categorize myself as one of successful professional females. I think you can be successful and still be extremely present in a healthy life.

If you want to enjoy life more fully, the trick is to teach yourself to live in the insightful mode more often.

When people see you on the screen, you become bigger than life.

When life takes away the forms that you thought were the foundation of your life, what's left? The life that needs no foundation - that is the foundation. The formless. The essence.

Ask yourself: Is there joy, ease and lightness in what i'm doing? If there isn't then time is covering up the present moment, and life is perceived as a burden or a struggle.

You need to learn to be with the suffering that inevitably arises in your life.

"I am the awareness that is aware that there is attachment." That's the beginning of the transformation of consciousness.

It is not necessary to do things in a state of anxiety or anguish. That is not the way to be aligned with life.