Quotes About Presence

The man who has seen the rising moon break out of the clouds at midnight has been present like an archangel at the creation of light and of the world.

The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.

If a man examine carefully his thoughts he will be surprised to find how much he lives in the future. His well-being is always ahead.

Do not say things. What you are stands over you the while and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.

Go often to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invated by worry, fret and anxiety.

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

The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.

We're fascinated by the words--but where we meet is in the silence behind them.

The heart surrenders everything to the moment. The mind judges and holds back.

Be here now.

The most important aspect of love is not in giving or the receiving: it's in the being. When I need love from others, or need to give love to others, I'm caught in an unstable situation. Being in love, rather than giving or taking love, is the only thing that provides stability. Being in love means seeing the Beloved all around me.

Let's trade in all our judging for appreciating. Let's lay down our righteousness and just be together.

The next message you need is always right where you are.

Travel in all the four quarters of the earth, yet you will find nothing anywhere. Whatever there is, is only here.

Let what comes come. Let what goes go. Find out what remains.

If the mind falls asleep, awaken it. Then if it starts wandering, make it quiet. If you reach the state where there is neither sleep nor movement of mind, stay still in that, the natural (real) state.

Become conscious of being conscious. Say or think "I am", and add nothing to it. Be aware of the stillness that follows the "I am". Sense your presence, the naked unveiled, unclothed beingness. It is untouched by young or old, rich or poor, good or bad, or any other attributes. It is the spacious womb of all creation, all form.

If you hold this feeling of 'I' long enough and strongly enough, the false 'I' will vanish leaving only the unbroken awareness of the real, immanent 'I', consciousness itself

Grace is always present. You imagine it is something somewhere high in the sky, far away, and has to descend. It is really inside you, in your Heart, and the moment you effect subsidence or merger of the mind into its Source, grace rushes forth, sprouting as from a spring within you

You are awareness. Awareness is another name for you. Since you are awareness there is no need to attain or cultivate it.

A day will dawn when you will laugh at your past efforts. What you realize on the day you laugh is also here and now

Grace is ever present. The only thing necessary is that you surrender to it. (p. 369)

Be as you are. (p. 118)