Quotes About Presence

Zen is very easy! It's like touching your nose when you wash your face in the morning!

I like waking up in the morning when I don't have to get up and think about the next thing, and I can just be present with the feeling of being alive, I guess.

But it's morning. Within my hands is another day. Another day to listen and love and walk and glory. I am here for another day.

Maybe it's just the morning light, but he looks pretty cool standing there with his sword.

This morning I suddenly catch myself: I'm not there, I'm so lost in thought, I don't know what's going on around me. Can you think yourself to death?

It is true, I never assisted the sun materially in his rising, but doubt not, it was of the last importance only to be present at it.

Morning," I say. "Shh," she says. "If you don't acknowledge it, maybe it will go away.

I love being. There's so much wisdom in it. You wake up in the morning and you think, Hey, isn't it great just being?

Did you think that I forgot you? Did you think I'm going away? Did you feel like I was don't care for you? No. I am here to stay.

Be a loving person rather than in a love relationship - because relationships happen one day and disappear another day. They are flowers; in the morning they bloom, by the evening they are gone.

There is no death, daughter. People die only when we forget them,' my mother explained shortly before she left me. 'If you can remember me, I will be with you always.

We, like the Mother of the World, become the compassionate presence that can hold, with tenderness, the rising and passing waves of suffering.

A mother's yearning feels the presence of the cherished child even in the degraded man.

my mother always found me out. Always. She's been dead for thirty-five years, but I have this feeling that even now she's watching.

A spirit is, like, your mother, my dad, who've made it. They can come around, but they come around in a loving way because they've already made it to God. Most people make it.

I want to tell you how much I miss my mother. Bits of her are still there. I miss her most when I'm sitting across from her.

I felt my mother about the place. I don't think she haunts me, but I wouldn't put it past her.

When my mother left me waiting for her, [she] established in me the habit of waiting and expectation which makes any present moment most significant for what it does not contain.

When you hold a child in your arms, or hug your mother, or your husband, or your friend, if you breathe in and out three times, your happiness will be multiplied at least tenfold.

In all of your living, don't forget to live.

I told God, 'I don't want a man. I don't want more gold albums. The only thing I want is the love, friendship, and presence of my mother.' And God gave it to me.

Go out into the world today and love the people you meet. Let your presence light new light in the hearts of people.

Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.

On the way to work, concentrate on the way - not the work.