Quotes About Presence

Vision is the ability to see God's presence, to perceive God's power, to focus on God's plan in spite of the obstacles.

God is never absent so He need not be "summoned", nor do we possess the power to summon Him; the thing in need of summoning, and of redemption from ghaflah ("heedlessness") is the subtle spiritual attention of the Sufi to His Grace and His Presence.

Who is there?" asks God. "It is I." "Go away," God says… Later… "Who is there?" asks God. "It is Thou." "Enter," replies God.

I struggle with my life because instead of just doing what needs to be done, I fight the underlying fear; I try to unlock the door. Paradoxically, the only way to unlock the door is to forget the door. Instead of obsessing about the locked door, we need to be going about our lives, which means cleaning up the house, taking care of the baby, going to work, whatever.

That's essentially what Zen practice is about: functioning from moment to moment.

When I watch my mind and stay with my body, out of that comes some course of action.

Living Zen is nothing special: life as it is. Zen is life itself, nothing added.

The minute we have even a passing thought of judging another person, the red light of practice should go on.

Awareness is our true self; it's what we are.

When we're engaged in pure activity, we're a presence, an awareness. But that's all we are. And that doesn't feel like anything. People feel that the so-called enlightened state is flooded with emotional and loving feelings. But true love or compassion is simply to be nonseparate from the object. Essentially, it's a flow of activity in which we do not exist as a being separate from our activity.

The best form of saying is being

My dad's funeral was one of those instances when you're reminded of what it means to show up for people. The tradition

DEAR LORD, forgive me when I demand evidence of your working and power instead of thanking you for all you do. Please open my eyes to be aware of your presence, to sense your nearness, and to see the works of your hand everywhere I look. With all my heart I welcome your presence today, however you choose to reveal yourself to me. And don't let me forget to thank you.

After all, I want to live my life, not rush through it.

To breathe used to be another way I'd take you in

The dead were too ...present.

Sometimes I believe we would all be better off if we always treated people like this was the last time we were ever going to see them

My presence scared them. I reminded them of the one thing in the world we want most to forget.

And then a wave of peace washed over her and told her it wasn't where she lived that mattered, but that she was walking with Him.

We think we'll have questions for God when we get to heaven, but when we actually see him, we'll understand it's not about getting our questions answered because the questions won't be important. We'll finally be with God. So I would just look at her. And if she let me, I would hug her. For a long time." I

I don't spend a lot of time in the mirror.

I always had a relationship with God as early as 8 years old. I can remember having these conversations with God. I'd go in the bathroom and look in the mirror and talk to myself, but then I knew I was not the only one present.

People always ask me, how did you grow up to be so confident? I tell them, I always look in the mirror and say I belong, you are so beautiful and you are meant to be here.

If you blink, you will miss me, but I am in 'Malcolm X.'