Quotes About Presence

Life is a Drama, We Come and we Go. Before the curtains are drawn, We must Enjoy the Show!"

The now is Peaceful and Blissful, But how easily we lose our Joy, We slip into Yesterday and Tomorrow, Looking for another Toy!

This is the wonder of names. Like the press of a footprint in the snow: proof that someone has been there.

All you need to do is follow the instructions: Sit down, shut up, watch, and don't get involved. Gradually, the meditation experience will open up all by itself.

What I am talking about is more a sense of relaxing, opening, receiving, than trying to attain. Pure consciousness is not an attainment; you can't get it; you can only be it. Recognize 'it is like this'. It is natural and being at ease. You feel relaxed and at home here. All the problems of being a separate person, a personality, drop away here. So, as you begin to explore and investigate this, you will find the way out of suffering.

It's just what it is, it's natural, it's nature. It's just the way it is. And you're a witness to it, because you recognize you're in this position of the Buddho, or the knower, the witness.

You are not alone, Ash. I am with you. My soul is always with you.

I'm thankful for every moment.

I hope they'll pay attention not so much to the mechanical things, like a sudden change of pace in a talk or a sudden change in volume of their voice. I hope they'll pay attention, instead, to the fundamental source of that pacing and volume, which is the connection with the other person. That connection makes us respond like a leaf in the breeze to whatever is happening in the faces of those in front of us.

Well, if you listen, Piglet, you'll hear it." "How do you know I'm not listening?" Pooh couldn't answer that one, so he began to sing.

I haven't seen anybody to-day," said Pooh, "not so as to say 'Hallo, Small!' to. Did you want him for anything?" "I don't want him," said Rabbit. "But it's always useful to know where a friend-and-relation is, whether you want him or whether you don't.

The point of music is discovered in every moment of playing and listening to it. It is the same, I feel, with the greater part of our lives, and if we are unduly absorbed in improving them we may forget altogether to live them.

Waiting does not exist in the experience of those who recognize the presence of love wherever they are.

What about your church prayer meeting? Is it tucked away somewhere because there is a busy program in operation and folks have no time to stop and pray? What would happen if your whole Sunday school gathered together for one hour to wait upon God, to beseech Him to pour out His blessing on your church? Too frequently our programs make no room for God's presence or for His power to work. Churches have plenty of people ready to interfere, but very few willing to intercede.

God appears and God is light, to those poor souls who dwell in night, but does a human form display, to those who dwell in

He didn't want to think about the past, present, or future.

Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.

Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.

If you can't meditate in a boiler room, you can't meditate.

No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.

We love to see a child lost in the dance and not performing for an audience. To be happy and know that you are happy is really the overflowing cup of life. To dance as if there was no audience.

I realise how pleasant life can be if I stop thinking about it. It is much simpler to exist than to live.

Surely you can hear him now?