Quotes About Presence

Think back over your day and consider when God spoke. How did you sense it, or why did you fail to sense it at the time? It is often between the lines and in the empty places where we hear God.

And never have I felt so deeply at one and the same time so detached from myself and so present in the world.

More is accomplished by spending time in God's presence than by doing anything else.

When this No-Mind has been well developed, the mind does not stop with one thing nor does it lack any one thing. It appears appropriately when facing a time of need.

Advent: the time to listen for footsteps - you can't hear footsteps when you're running yourself.

The most precious gift you can give someone is the gift of your time and attention.

Listen to everything all the time and remind yourself when you are not listening.

Do one thing at a Time, and while doing it put your whole Soul into it to the exclusion of all else.

Silence is an endangered quantity in our time... Silence, embraced, stuns with its presence, its pregnant reality—a reality that does not negate reason and argument, but puts them in their place.

There was a time when I experienced architecture without thinking about it.

We have what we seek, it is there all the time, and if we give it time, it will make itself known to us.

Where are you? Here What time is it? Now What are you? This moment.

God often visits us, but most of the time we are not at home.

Long for what is real. You will then have no time for worrying over what may never happen.

If you have time to breathe you have time to meditate. You breathe when you walk. You breathe when you stand. You breathe when you lie down.

If we only spent more of our time in looking at Him we should soon forget ourselves.

I'd like to be the sort of person who can enjoy things at the time, instead of having to go back in my head and enjoy them.

The ultimate Consciousness is always present everywhere. It is beyond space and time, with not before or after. It is undeniable and obvious. So what can be said about it?

In this moment, there is plenty of time. In this moment, you are precisely as you should be. In this moment, there is infinite possibility.

The greatest gift that you can give to others and to yourself is time. Embrace the gift of time whether you give it or receive it.

You can find something truly important in an ordinary minute.

One of the things Thich Nhat Hanh taught me: he says, "When you're in a hurry, go slower." That works every time, unless you're trying to catch a plane.

When you react, you don't give your mind the time to get filled with emotions. You are devoid of anger, fear, and frustration; you are simply moving.

A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big.