Quotes About Presence

It is executive presence—and no man or woman attains a top job, lands an extraordinary deal, or develops a significant following without this heady combination of confidence, poise, and authenticity that convinces the rest of us we're in the presence of someone who's the real deal. It's an amalgam of qualities that telegraphs that you are in charge or deserve to be.

how you act (gravitas), how you speak (communication), and how you look (appearance) count for a lot in determining your leadership presence.

It is executive presence—and no man or woman attains a top job, lands an extraordinary deal, or develops a significant following without this heady combination of confidence, poise, and authenticity that convinces the rest of us we're in the presence of someone who's the real deal.

Here is an exercise in advanced Right Speech. Starting tomorrow when you wake up, don't gossip. See what happens if you just give up making comments about anyone not present. Listen carefully to the voice in your mind as it is getting ready to make a comment, and think to yourself, "Why am I saying this?" Awareness of intention is the best clue for knowing whether the remark you are about to make is Right Speech. Is

Don't just do something, sit there!

not doing anything to change experience but rather discovering that experience is bearable.

Here is the instruction: Only connect. Wherever you are, right now, pay attention. Forever.

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.

to fight against time, against forgetting, against death, to do justice to this absolute presence of the instant, to this eternity of the instant, which will have been forever

It was so much more exquisite to long for somebody than to have her there beside him.

Daddy always said that days had to be embraced, enjoyed, used. Otherwise, they would multiply into months and years that would mock you from afar –

Israel's wandering in the wilderness wasn't just because [God] was angry with them. His continuous moving with them in the wilderness was because He wanted time to get out of them what their years of being slaves had put in them. And the best way to show anyone who you really are is to constantly be in their presence.

nasze uczestnictwo w Eucharystii b?dzie takie jak nasza codzienno??. Je?eli w codzienno?ci s? dla nas wa?ne jedynie przedmioty, sprawy do za?atwienia, interesy, nawet naj?wi?tsze, [...] wtedy przychodz?c na Eucharysti?, jeste?my ju? w jakim? stopniu pozbawieni mo?liwo?ci wej?cia z Bogiem w blisko??.

Ne vem, iz kakšnega daljnega ?asa mi prihajaš ?edalje bolj naproti. Tvoje sonce in zvezde te ne morejo za zmeraj skriti pred menoj. Marsikakšno jutro in ve?er je bilo slišati tvoje stopnje in tvoj sel je prišel v moje srce in me skrivaj poklical. Ne vem, zakaj je danes moje življenje tako nemirno in mi srce prešinja ob?utek trepetajo?ega veselja. Kakor da prihaja ?as, ko naj kon?am svoje delo, in v zraku ?utim rahel duh tvoje blage navzo?nosti.

Think with your whole body.

Ici et maintenant, les autres ne sont pas moi, je ne suis pas les autres. Si je ne pratique pas, je ne peux pas comprendre. Si quelqu'un d'autre fait, je ne peux pas être dans ce qu'il fait.

Regardless of how long Daitsu Chisho Buddha sits, regardless of how long you sit, the Buddha dharma never appears because it is already here! Reveal it! Do not cover it up!

Eye contact is the best accessory.

When facing a single tree, if you look at a single one of its red leaves, you will not see all the others. When the eye is not set on one leaf, and you face the tree with nothing at all in mind, any number of leaves are visible to the eye without limit. But if a single leaf holds the eye, it will be as if the remaining leaves were not there.

Completely forget about the mind and you will do all things well

Life is too short to be in a hurry." If we are always on the go, we are reacting to the exigencies of day-to-day life rather than allowing ourselves the space to create a happy life.

It's not about the future, it's about the moment.

Do you see now why I believe in miracles? I used to imagine time folding over, the shades of our future selves slipping back to the crucial moments to tap each of us on the shoulder and whisper: Look, there, look! That man, that woman: they're for you; that's your life, your future, fidgeting in the line, dripping on the carpet, shuffling in that doorway. Don't miss it.

Then all the sharp intricate peaks on the monitor smoothed out to clean straight lines and my father made a terrible growling sound, but even without any of that I would have known, because the air around us had split open and whirled and re-formed itself and there was one less person in the room.