Quotes About Presence

Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everyone knows 'I am!' No one can deny his own being.

The difficulty was in controling the mind. "It is to be done by controling the breath. If you practise it by yourself without help, then the mind is controlled. Otherwise the mind comes under control spontaneously in the presence of a superior power. Such is the greatness of association with the wise (satsanga). 1935may15

Are you listening to Life or your Mind?

As long as you're Unaware, you lead a miserable life. The moment you're aware of all that is happening around you, You have arrived Home; it is only then that you relish what life brings in; but if you're unaware, even the greatest moments bring despair.

Mechanics of Mind: Remember the nature of the mind - Mind is never where you are, it is always somewhere else!"

One of the hallmarks of great men is that they never make us conscious of their presence, instead they dwelve into our unconscious state and transform into conscious being!

Only two unhappy people can be happy with each other, because they are dependent on the 'other' for happiness. Only an INDIVIDUAL relishes in his own presence, the 'other' is a hindrance to his freedom. He doesn't fit with the society, he stands out from the mediocre, he lives in 'totality' and celebrates in aloneness.

Sometimes people are intimidated not because you're intelligent, but they fear your presence may make them conscious of their ignorance!

Sometimes people are intimidated not because you're superior, but they fear your presence may make them conscious of their choice of being inferior! ~Ramana Pemmaraju

The moment you're aware of all that is happening around you, you have become a witness and the moment you become the happening you have lost your'self'. Watch On!

We think more, hence we live less!

Mischief is the way evil toys with the world. Its presence can corrupt the very fabric of existence.

The ways we miss our lives are life.

The King was one of the first to bring up the question. 'He hopes,' wrote his private secretary Sir Arthur Bigge, on 5 January 1911 'that these outrages by foreigners will lead you to consider whether the Aliens Act could not be amended so as to prevent London from being infested with men and women whose presence would not be tolerated in any other country.

Rather than working to the exclusion of everything else in order to flood our bank accounts in the hope that we can eventually buy back what we have missed along the way, we need to live life fully now with a sense of its fragility.

Kids need to know their parents love them. Their parents don't need to be alive for that to happen.

Even if the scan results are bad tomorrow," I had told her, "I just want you to know that it feels great to be alive, and to be here today, alive with you. Whatever news we get about the scans, I'm not going to die when we hear it. I won't die the next day, or the day after that, or the day after that. So today, right now, well this is a wonderful day. And I want you to know how much I'm enjoying it.

It's the days that pass by unnoticed that are probably the best days of our lives.

Gazing upon the child, the presence in the adult's heart of an unfinished life, oscillating between birth and death, is clarified.

You can't fake listening. It shows.

Friends are like stars. you may not see them, but you always know they're there.

Each place is the right place--the place where I now am can be a sacred space. (3)

I think the reason we sometimes have the false sense that God is so far away is because that is where we have put him. We have kept him at a distance, and then when we are in need and call on him in prayer, we wonder where he is. He is exactly where we left him.

Goodbye don't mean gone.