logo

Quotes About Presence

To meet everything and everyone through stillness instead of mental noise is the greatest gift you can offer the universe.
~ Eckhart Tolle
Once you understand that the false needs time and what needs time is false, you are nearer the Reality, which is timeless, ever in the NOW.
~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Conscience is God present in man.
~ Victor Hugo
When we're awake in our bodies and sense, the world comes alive. Wisdom, creativity, and love are discovered as we relax and awaken through our bodies.
~ Tara Brach
The old grooves must be erased in your brain, without forming new ones. You must realize yourself as the immovable, behind and beyond the movable, the silent witness of all that happens.
~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
To achieve your ethereal state, you have to expand your thoughtless awareness.
~ Nirmala Srivastava
A good traveler leaves no tracks. Good speech lacks fault-finding.
~ Lao Tzu
What you are looking for is what is looking.
~ Francis of Assisi
The only calendar I need is just outside my window. With eyes to see and ears to hear, nature keeps me posted.
~ Alfred Armand Montapert
Thinking is only a small aspect of consciousness. Thought cannot exist without consciousness, but consciousness does not need thought
~ Eckhart Tolle
Where ever you are, be there totally.
~ Eckhart Tolle
The whole point of all these conversations is to leave your mind empty, not full. If you go away with learning, you have missed the opportunity
~ Mooji
Spiritual Practice involves being constantly aware
~ Radhe Maa
Beauty, the eternal Spouse of the Wisdom of God and Angel of his Presence thru' all creation.
~ Robert Bridges
And the deepest level of communication is not communication, but communion. It is wordless. it is beyond words, and it is beyond speech, and it is beyond concept.
~ Thomas Merton
Today I am altogether without ambition. Where did I get such wisdom?
~ Mary Oliver
Anxious care is out of place in a heavenly Father's presence.
~ Kenneth Wuest
Enjoyment is only possible when you are beyond your mind.
~ Nirmala Srivastava
Look at your mind dispassionately; this is enough to calm it. When it is quiet, you can go beyond it. Do not keep it busy all the time. Stop it - and just BE.
~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
In meditation, you learn how to get out of your own way long enough for there to be room for your wisdom to manifest
~ Pema Chodron
Show us your Christ, Lady, after this our exile, yes: but show Him to us also now, show Him to us here, while we are still wanderers.
~ Thomas Merton
I pray daily for wisdom on how to serve my kids without words.
~ Sho Baraka
T he happiest moments we ever know are when we entirely forget ourselves
~ Swami Vivekananda
To my surprise, I had not just doodled, I had prayed (I drew new shapes and names of each friend and focused on the person whose name stared at me from the paper). I had though OF each person as I drew but not ABOUT each person. I could just sit with them in a variation on stillness. I could hold them in prayer.
~ Sybil MacBeth