Quotes About Presence

Don't become a slave to success or failure, family, friends, possessions. If these things come to you in life, enjoy them, but fix your consciousness on that which does not change.

I just live my life and try to be present.

I just live my life and try to be present. When I'm present in the moment and something comes, I can capture it, because it doesn't come from me, it's out there.

Life is a mystery, and there is nothing to explain everything is just open, it is in front of you. Encounter it! Meet it! Be courageous!

There's so much spectating going on that a lot of us never get around to living.

Although whenever you have intelligent life in the presence of large explosions, a safe bet is that the intelligent life is responsible for the large explosion.

Stop thinking for once in your life!

I've found that the best life has to offer is right in front of me, with my husband and child

My daughter recently reminded me not to get so busy making a living, I forget to make a life and I'm going to take that advice.

When we go... to bear witness to life on the streets, we're offering ourselves. Not blankets, not food, not clothes, just ourselves.

The world needs people who are more comfortable standing still. We keep the earth on it axis when everybody else is bouncing around.

I try to be alert and available. I try to be available for life to happen to me.

I think that there are few people in one's life that you never really feel that they're gone. I have to remind myself that she isn't around.

... when confronted with unusual life situations... A warrior acts as if nothing had ever happened, because he doesn't believe in anything, yet he accepts everything at its face value.

I try to be mindful in my daily life, trying to stay more present and have more intention. It keeps me calm, and I feel less whipped about by my emotions.

This is the greatest momemt of your life and your out missing it

Take time, slow down, be still, be awake to the Divine Mystery that looks so common and so ordinary yet is wondrously present.

I now turn fully to face you, 0 God, the source of the universe and of my life, as I enter into silence.

In the world of ADD, there are only two times: there is now, and then there is not now.

Without knowing it or meaning to, we are training ourselves to be constantly on the alert for interruptions; to seek out messages incessantly, to process data rather than discover, invent, think, or feel, and in general to lose the propensity or even the capacity to ponder, pause, imagine, or give full focus to anyone or anything for more than a few restive moments.

Trapped in the past or future in the DMN, you're likely to abandon projects you once started with enthusiasm, make careless mistakes, or, worse, fall into a state of misery and despair, for no good reason whatsoever. All

People who are in wu-wei has de, typically translated as "virtue," "power," or "charismatic power." De is radiance that others can detect, and it serves as an outward signal that one is in wu-wei.

Under the appearances of bread and wine, Christ's Body and Blood are made truly present to us today in the Mass. In this Holy Communion, the divine light of Christ shines most intimately in the caverns of our souls, drawing us into deeper unity with Our Lord.

The most important choice we have is whether to put God or the world first. If we put the world first, we fall and move into bondage. This happens over and over again until it is learned - there is only partial satisfaction here. For complete satisfaction, we must know what we are in God. The world pulls us in and we forget. We go to sleep and remain in bondage. Prayer is a potent tool. We ask for nothing but to know God's holy presence and when it happens, the Earth trembles