Quotes About Presence

We do not know we are full of paradise because we are so full of our own noise that we cannot hear God singing us and all things into being.

One bird sits still Watching the work of God:

Nevertheless, every day love corners me somewhere and surrounds me with peace without my having to look very far or very hard or do anything special. God

By "prayer of the heart" we seek God himself present in the depths of our being and meet him there by invoking the name of Jesus in faith, wonder and love.

Mere sitting at home and meditating on the divine presence is not enough for our time. We have to come to the end of a long journey and see that the stranger we meet there is no other than ourselves—which is the same as saying that we find Christ in him. For if the Lord is risen, as He said, He is actually or potentially alive in every man.

As soon as one is conscious of the presence of the Master, one must, in all passivity, abandon the work to Him.

Life is not attained by reasoning and analysis but first of all by living.

The function of a university is to teach a [person] how to drink tea. not because anything is important, but because it is usual to drink tea, or for that matter anything else under the sun. And whatever you do, every act, however small, can teach you everything, provided you see who is acting.

The function of a university is to teach a [person] how to drink tea, not because anything is important, but because it is usual to drink tea, or for that matter anything else under the sun. And whatever you do, every act, however small, can teach you everything, provided you see who is acting." ? Thomas Merton, Thomas Merton On Prayer

your eyes must turn, again and again, to the House that hides the Sacramental Christ!

There is only now.

In Silence, God ceases to be an object and becomes an experience.

Si ascendero in coelum, tu illic es. Si descendero in infernum, ades.

live," said Paul

In meditative prayer, one thinks and speaks not only with his mind and lips, but in a certain sense with his whole being.

By faith we know God without seeing Him. By hope we possess God without feeling His presence.

Because God's love is in me, it can come to you from a different and special direction that would be closed if He did not live in me, and because His love is in you, it can come to me from a quarter from which it would not otherwise come. And because it is in both of us, God has greater glory.

We have found Him, He has found us. We are in Him, He is in us. There is nothing further to look for except for the deepening of this life we already possess. Be content.

We must slow down to a human tempo and we'll begin to have time to listen.

Let the peace of this day be here tomorrow when I wake up.

As if the dead really do persist, even in a bottle of wine.

Death has come in the pantry door: stands watching them, iron and patient, with a look that says 'try to tickle me.

Temporal bandwidth" is the width of your present, your now. It is the familiar "?t" considered as a dependent variable. The more you dwell in the past and in the future, the thicker your bandwidth, the more solid your persona. But the narrower your sense of Now, the more tenuous you are. It may get to where you're having trouble remembering what you were doing five minutes ago, or even—as Slothrop now—what you're doing here

When something real is about to happen to you, you go toward it with a transparent surface parallel to your own front that hums and bisects both your ears, making eyes very alert. The light bends toward chalky blue. Your skin aches. At last: something real.