Quotes About Presence

Joy waits on welcome, not time.

The first thing necessary for a constructive dealing with time is to learn to live in the reality of the present moment. For psychologically speaking, this present moment is all we have.

We must slow down to a human tempo and we'll begin to have time to listen.

Time, presence and physical attentiveness are our most basic proxies for something ultimately unprovable: that we are understood.

Please remove your watch,' he said. 'In my domain time isn't a factor.

If you believe you are the beloved of God, you need to spend time listening to his voice - period! You can't say, "Yes God calls me the beloved, but I have to go out to do something now."

I don't go around, the way many musicians do, with earbuds in my ear listening to my iPod all day and just sticking my head in the music all the time.

Clock watchers never seem to be having a good time.

It doesn't take money to turn off the television and cultivate real bonding time.

Spaces may or may not invite the image - if they do, they mostly do it with their spatial layers of time... It is then the image that takes the place of the space; the image in its own right.

I try to live in the moment, but by the time I get there it's too late.

In the now, time ceases to exist and we experience a presence that is all-absorbing, completely at peace, and totally satisfying.

It is near thirty years since He made it sure; and since that time, though there has fallen out much sin, yet I was never out of an assurance of mine interest, nor long out of sight of His presence.

The angels have never made it a secret that they are with us, they want us to know that they are here, and they do their best to give us signs all the time...

The only time and place to find enlightenment is in this moment. No need to check your watch. The time is now.

Mastery is playing whatever you're capable of playing-every time-WITHOUT THINKING.

I'm also good at meditation. It involves doing nothing and everything at the same time.

We cannot be present and run our story-line at the same time.

Church is a moment in time when the kingdom of God draws near, when a meal, a story, a song, an apology, and even a failure id made holy by the presence of Jesus among us and within us.

My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock should find the time in my face.

Wisdom is the ability to do two things at once, to be in the world and enjoy it and at the same time, to be in the realms of light, to be in samadhi.

There is the in-breath and there is the out-breath, and too often we feel like we have to exhale all the time. The inhale is absolutely essential - and then you can exhale.

I try to busy myself elsewhere, to arrive late; but I always lose at this game. Whatever I do, I find myself there, with nothing to do, punctual, even ahead of time.

When you live completely in each moment, without expecting anything, you have no idea of time.