Quotes About Presence

When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there?

The kingdom of God is available to you in the here and the now. But the question is whether you are available to the kingdom. Our practice is to make ourselves ready for the kingdom so that it can manifest in the here and the now. You don't need to die in order to enter the kingdom of heaven. In fact, you have to be truly alive in order to do so.

It is possible to live twenty-four hours a day in a state of love. Every movement, every glance, every thought, and every word can be infused with love.

Your true home is in the here and the now.

If you touch one thing with deep awareness, you touch everything.

Enlightenment is always there. Small enlightenment will bring great enlightenment. If you breathe in and are aware that you are alive—that you can touch the miracle of being alive—then that is a kind of enlightenment

Many people are alive but don't touch the miracle of being alive.

Each thought, each action in the sunlight of awareness becomes sacred.

Each time you look at a tangerine, you can see deeply into it. You can see everything in the universe in one tangerine. When you peel it and smell it, it's wonderful. You can take your time eating a tangerine and be very happy.

Be Yourself. Life is precious as it is. All the elements for your happiness are already here. There is no need to run, strive, search, or struggle. Just Be.

Mindfulness must be engaged. Once there is seeing, there must be acting. Otherwise, what's the use of seeing?

The earth is so beautiful. We are beautiful also. We can allow ourselves to walk mindfully, touching the earth, our wonderful mother, with each step. We don't need to wish our friends, 'Peace be with you.' Peace is already with them. We only need to help them cultivate the habit of touching peace in each moment.-

If you walk with true awareness of every step, without having a goal to get anywhere, happiness will arise naturally. You don't need to look for happiness.

There are two ways to wash the dishes. The first is to wash the dishes in order to have clean dishes and the second is to wash the dishes to wash the dishes.

Live the actual moment. Only this actual moment is life. Don't be attached to the future. Don't worry about things you have to do. Don't think about getting up or taking off to do anything. Don't think about "departing.

Le miracle c'est de marcher sur la terre.

We are very good at preparing to live, but not very good at living.

I don't exercise to get fit or be healthier; I do it to enjoy being alive.

The present moment is the only moment available to us and it is the door to all other moments.

drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it as the axis on which the world revolves

So, while driving in the car with the person sitting right next to us, we think about other things. We aren't interested in him anymore. What arrogance! The person sitting there beside is really a mystery! We only have the impression that we know her, but we don't know anything yet.

The miracle is walking on the earth, not walking on water or fire. The real miracle is walking on this earth.

If you can recognize and accept your pain without running away from it, you will discover that although pain is there, joy can also be there at the same time. Some

In us, there is a river of feelings, in which every drop of water is a different feeling, and each feeling relies on all the others for its existence. To observe it, we just sit on the bank of the river and identify each feeling as it surfaces, flows by, and disappears.