Quotes About Presence

Our purpose in life is first to recognize God, then to understand His presence in our lives, and ultimately to achieve unity with His nature.

When a man is at home, the foundation of the house is the wife, because of whom the Shechinah does not leave the house. He who goes on a journey should pray to the Creator before departing, so as to draw the Shechinah upon himself.

Walk as if you are kissing the earth with your feet...Every step makes a flower bloom.

When mind and action are separate, zen is lost.

When we put our keys down, we should be conscious of putting them down. When we pick them up, we should be conscious of picking them up. That's all there is to zen. The best way to remember where we put things is to have a place for them. As the saying does, "All things in their place, and a place for all things.

Grace is everywhere, like lenses that go unnoticed because you are looking through them.

Dans le spectacle de son absence, c'est sa présence que je reconnais.

Parler de lui au présent c'était le ranger du côté des vivants. Et s'il était vivant, alors je n'étais pas tout à fait morte.

Amaba el tiempo hasta el punto de quedarse viéndolo pasar

Oui, sa seule présence aurait suffi à m'éloigner du temps passé et à me rendre fort. Au fond, c'est pour elle et elle seule que j'écris, pour faire semblant, pour me tromper, pour me convaincre qu'elle est encore à m'attendre, où qu'elle soit. Et qu'elle entend tout ce que j'ai à lui dire. Écrire me fait vivre à deux.

Vsakdo mora vaditi svojo navzo?nost tukaj in zdaj. Da bi se tega nau?ili, moramo svoj nemirni opi?ji um vedno znova potegniti nazaj, vsaki?, ko odtava v preteklost ali prihodnost. Pozorni moramo biti tudi na to, da ne zidamo gradov v oblakih in ne premišljujemo o namišljenih situacijah in tako odtavamo s pozornostjo.

One way to tell if you're really comfortable with a person is if you can be quiet together sometimes and not feel awkward. If you don't feel obligated to say something brilliant or funny or surprising or cool. You can just be together. You can just be .

I think this is what hooks one to gardening: it is the closest one can come to being present at creation.

I'm not out to save the world, just to be part of it.

My brother and Lauren are very close with me and they are in Sun Valley, so sometimes I need to go there and feel their presence. And there are times I need to see my bro' alone.

When you're hurrying around too quickly," he had said, "there's a part of the world you can't see. If, for example, you're taking a wrong direction in your life, it's only when you stop and look at things clearly that you can revise your direction and take a more proper course. Then message of Zen is that in order to find ourselves, we've got to learn to stop.

As Henry David Thoreau, one of the great explorers of his time, reminded himself in his journal, "It matters not where or how far you travel—the farther commonly the worse—but how much alive you are." Two

Heaven is the place where you think of nowhere else.

If you think, 'I breathe,' " said Shunryu Suzuki, the Zen teacher, "the 'I' is extra.

Hold this moment forever, I tell myself; it may never come again.

I decided that I would no longer seek out holy places in [a] city of temples. I would just let life come to me in all its happy confusion and find the holiness in that.

Sometimes, the stars come down and walk among us as people.

Abbiamo bisogno di tempo. Di mettere tempo fra noi. Di vivere insieme, di viaggiare insieme, perché il nostro pensiero riconosca istintivamente l'altro; e lo riconosca come una presenza automatica di consuetudine e di affetto. Abbiamo bisogno di molto tempo per accettare la brutalità del fatto di non essere più soli.

To be in the present with someone else is a gift. The gift of attention is perhaps the most precious and envied of all, even though we do not always realize it.