Quotes About Presence

Loafe with me on the grass—loose the stop from your throat; Not words, not music or rhyme I want—not custom or lecture, not even the best; Only the lull I like, the hum of your valved voice.

To listen only to records is a sin of narcissism. It is important to hear live music, in concert, which is a source of emotions that a record can never convey.

To understand music, you must listen to it. But so long as you are thinking, "I am listening to this music," you are not listening.

There is no good singing, there is only present and absent.

If you think too much in the music you are too late.

I don't want learning, or dignity, or respectability. I want this music, and this dawn, and the warmth of your cheek against mine.

Flowers and plants are silent presences. They nourish every sense except the ear.

I wanted to marry Lucifer. I feel his presence in my music.

Happiness, not in another place but this place...not for another hour, but this hour.

If you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for a moment.

When you have abandoned all past and future, it is as if you have come alive. You are here, mindful...the nature of all types of consciousness reveals itself.

Do not look for evil. Look for the goodness of God all around you. As you look for signs of His Presence, many more opportunities will occur for you to bless people and share God's true nature.

It seems to me that we all look at Nature too much, and live with her too little.

The silence of nature is very real. It surrounds you, you can feel it

I am present at the sowing of the seed of the world. With a geometry of sunbeams, the soul lays the foundations of nature.

In listening and stillness there is nobody who is still, and this stillness doesn't refer to any object; it is absolutely objectless; it is our real nature.

A great silent space holds all of nature in its embrace. It also holds you.

Always search for your innermost nature in those you are with, as rose oil imbibes from roses.

You only need sit still long enough in some attractive spot in the woods that all its inhabitants may exhibit themselves to you by turns.

We are here to abet creation and to witness to it, to notice each other's beautiful face and complex nature so that creation need not play to an empty house.

I dressed and went for a walk - determined not to return until I took in what Nature had to offer.

There is nothing to practice. To know yourself, be yourself. To be yourself, stop imagining yourself to be this or that. Just be. Let your true nature emerge. Don't disturb your mind with seeking.

If, therefore, there is any grace in the water, it is not from the nature of water but from the Spirit's presence there.

Just be. Let your true nature emerge. Don't disturb your mind with seeking.