Quotes About Presence

Today I will just observe and listen." • "Today I will trust that everything will work out well." • "Today I will accept things as they are." • "Today I will be aware of the beauty all around me." I recommend affirmations

it is no longer a question of cutting off the senses, desires, and passions; on the contrary, it is a question of mounting these high-spirited, steedlike messengers in full consciousness so that they may carry us rapidly to a continuous presence to the world.

a single instant of total presence was worth the reading of all the texts, all the poets, all the philosophers.

when our desire occupies all of space the absence of one object goes totally unnoticed, because the flow of our awareness remains free to come into contact with thousands of others.

A peaceful mind realizes that it has the ability to grasp everything instantaneously. It no longer has to "stockpile" the materials of reality in order to deal with them later. It sees things directly, without projection and without judgment, in all their evidence and obviousness, in their naked reality.

The desire to be wholly available to life suffices. You do not have to be involved in, or to practice, or to believe anything whatsoever. The ultimate things present themselves in such a simple way that it is enough to experience them by yourself.

Si guardano. Alcuni, non si sa mai, si piazzano davanti un foglio e mettono le bic in posizione di attacco. No, no, e inutile prendere appunti. Cercate solo di ascoltare. - Si pone allora il problema dell'atteggiamento. Che cosa ne è di un corpo in un'aula scolastica, se non ha più l'alibi della penna a sfera e del foglio bianco?

Your legacy is the fragrance of your life that remains when you yourself are not present.

There are those rare people who function like human magnets, who are individually so attractive – or repellent, depending on the situation – that a considerable amount more seems to happen to them, and likewise, their presence in a certain place makes more seem to happen around them. They're magical people. They have special power.

How can the world be seen at such speeds? Where do people need to go so badly they can't realize what is already here, outside the car window?

To keep the soul continually in a state of gentle calm, it is necessary to perform every action as being done in the presence of God, and as if he himself had ordained it." ~St. Francis de Sales

No one ever said on their deathbed, 'Gee, I wish I had spent more time alone with my computer'.

U svakom mom retku, u svakoj mojoj re?i, u svakoj ta?ki nalaziš se i ti, kao polen.

Settle in the here and now. Reach down into the center where the world is not spinning and drink this holy peace. Feel relief flood into every cell. Nothing to do. Nothing to be but what you are already. Nothing to receive but what flows effortlessly from the mystery into form. Nothing to run from or run toward. Just this breath, Awareness knowing itself as embodiment. Just this breath, awareness waking up to truth.

All you ever longed for is Before you in this moment If you dare draw in a Breath and whisper "Yes.

Trust the energy that Courses through you. Trust Then take surrender even deeper. Be the energy. Don't push anything away. Follow each Sensation back to its source In vastness and pure presence.

Don't go crazy with art supplies at first. Just get a sketchbook and a pen that'll fit in your bag and keep them with you for when a moment opens up.

Places that are empty of you are empty of life.

este es el día en el que Dios te dice: «No estás solo».

You don't have to save the world, but you can be in the world-that's where the beauty comes from.

Dio è la voce dell'assente, l'assente più presente di tutti sei tu, finto Dio che fingi di essere un poeta malato di civiltà: parole inusuali e ineguali usi a tuo uso e consumo per corrompere, bastonare gli umani: io vivo e questo ti dispiace, ho un corpo e questo ti rammarica.

There is so much wisdom in the straightforward words of A. W. Tozer: The church is famishing for want of his presence. The instant cure of most of our religious ills would be to enter the presence in spiritual experience, to become suddenly aware that we are in God and that God is in us. This would lift us out of our pitiful narrowness and cause our hearts to be enlarged.2

pride comes when we distance ourselves from God's Word, God's presence, and God's will. Isaiah

Disappointments, a jaded outlook on life—right through to willful sin and pride—are all devastating to our spiritual life. Let's let the warning of the hardhearted remind us to stay open to anything and everything God has to say to us. We do this by staying in His Word, by welcoming His presence as we worship Him, by serving others, and by simply taking the time to listen as He speaks.