Quotes About Presence

St. Philip Neri: Imagine yourselves to be spiritual beggars in the presence of God and his saints. You should go round from saint to saint, imploring an alms with the same real earnestness with which the poor beg.

When I lived in South Africa, someone told me what the longest road in Africa is. It's not the road from Cairo to Capetown, it's the way from your head to your heart, and from there to the here and now.

Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels.

Well, where is she ? Where the colossal / Mountains of smoke stand. / That thing there amongst the fires / Is her.

Sitting. Sitting is the hardest, Mr Ui. Yes, some people can walk, and some people can stand; but show me the man who knows how to sit.

In concentration, the consciousness is held to a single image; the whole attention of the Knower is fixed on a single point, without wavering or swerving.

Part of Mother went with them. It is an acrobatic feat that only mothers can understand, this ability to be with every child.

Proficiency is not benevolence. There is an art to being present.

When fighting on behalf of someone you love, the fight must end, the love must be the art of being present.

Her five-feet seven-inch frame

It keeps us ever mindful of life, how it streams by in an awful rush if one is not careful to stop and listen...and honestly see. (Main character Annie Zook)

God is seated in the hearts of all.

[W]hen the mind is really absent, in that silence, in that unlimited space, your potential starts glowing, radiating, flowering. Suddenly you are full of cherry blossoms, a new presence, a new fragrance.

Enjoyment is just the sound of being centered.

To be present is to be prayerful.

Enjoy simple things with total intensity. Just a cup of tea can be a deep meditation.

The mind is constantly talking. If the inner talk can drop even for a single moment you will be able to have a glimpse of no-mind. That's what meditation is all about. The state of no-mind is the right state. It is your state.

Just to be and not be a person is the whole art of meditation, the whole art of inner ecstasy.

Those who miss meditation miss the whole dance of life.

Everything can become a meditation if you live it totally and intensely. And then your life becomes whole.

Mind only thinks, meditation lives.

Mindfulness brings to light experience in its pure immediacy. It reveals the object as it is before it has been plastered over with conceptual paint, overlaid with interpretations.

Absent in body, but present in spirit.

Then shall the trees of the wood sing out at the presence of the LORD, because he cometh to judge the earth.