Quotes About Presence

The truth is, I can never die. For I will be in everything and see you in everything and watch over you. I am your reaction in the water of a mountain lake

The mind has to be empty to see clearly.

Truth is not far away. It is nearer than near. There is no need to attain it, since not one of your steps leads away from it.

The ultimate truth of who you are is not I am this or I am that, but I Am.

To feel beauty, to feel truth, that is self-remembering. Self-remembering is the awareness of the presence of God.

Four Rules For Life Show up. Pay attention. Tell the truth. Don't be attached to the results.

Do not travel to other dusty lands, forsaking your own sitting place; if you cannot find the truth where you are now, you will never find it.

The only reality is in the moment. What you are doing counts.

Truth comes when your mind and heart are purged of all sense of striving and you are no longer trying to become somebody; it is there when the mind is very quiet, listening timelessly to everything.

the only truth is face to face, the poem whose words become your mouth and dying in black and white we fight for what we love, not are

Let me remember I am one with God. Our shining footprints point the way to truth, for God is our Companion as we walk the world a little while.

The past is gone. The future never arrives. In truth, there is no life outside of this moment!

Discard every self-seeking motive as soon as it is seen, and you need not search for truth; truth will find you.

It takes just one unattended moment for an hour to pass.

Sighing, he paused a moment as if to take in my essence or to gather his wits. As he had no wits to gather, it must have been my essence giving him pause.

If you have never said "Excuse me" to a parking meter or bashed your shins on a fireplug, you are probably wasting too much valuable reading time.

Women tend to love men in their presence, while men tend to love women in their absence.

She knows what she wants but won't compromise herself to get it. But she's feminine, like "Steel Magnolia" -- flowery on the outside, steel on the inside. She uses this very femininity to her own advantage. It isn't that she takes undue advantage of men, because she plays fair. She has one thing the nice girl doesn't: a presence of mind because she isn't swept away by a romantic fantasy. This presence of mind enables her to wield her power when it is necessary.

Perhaps unrequited love was like a specter in the house, a presence that brushed at the edge of senses, a heat in the dark, a shadow under the sun.

But you I want to see in all my moods. When I'm particularly pleased, when I'm simply going about my day, when I'm utterly overwhelmed, as I was yesterday and today. And it honors me that when I bring myself, I seem to have brought enough for you.

Every time you check your phone in company, what you gain is a hit of stimulation, a neurochemical shot, and what you lose is what a friend, teacher, parent, lover, or co-worker just said, meant, felt.

To reclaim solitude we have to learn to experience a moment of boredom as a reason to turn inward, to defer going "elsewhere" at least some of the time.

We miss out on necessary conversations when we divide our attention between the people we're with and the world on our phones. Or when we go to our phones instead of claiming a quiet moment for ourselves

I send you an idea and you comment on it and send it back is a different process than us talking about an idea together. You lose the better idea that comes out of the exchange. . . . We underestimate how much we learn and read and take in of each other's breathing and body language and presence in a space. . . . Technology filters things out. . . . Breathing the same air matters.