Quotes About Presence

When we relax about imperfection, we no longer lose our life moments in the pursuit of being different and in the fear of what is wrong.

Radical Acceptance is the art of engaging fully in this world — wholeheartedly caring about the preciousness of life — while also resting in the formless awareness that allows this life to arise and pass away.

What is happening?" We might also ask, "What wants my attention right now?" or, "What is asking for acceptance?

But even when habits of blaming or defensiveness arise, something profound can change if those involved bring a committed presence to what is happening. This is when community becomes a refuge—a place of true awakening.

You were a quiet man, yet you took up a vast amount of silent space and that was what I missed.

I know you're innocent, there is not one doubt in my mind, but I also know that you're not here.

I am not alone at all, I thought. I was never alone at all. And that, of course, is the message of Christmas. We are never alone. Not when the night is darkest, the wind coldest, the world seemingly most indifferent. For this is still the time God chooses.

God is never absent from the affairs of men, though we are not conscious of Him very often.

...it rains when youre here and it rains when youre gone.

It rains in your bedroom/everything is wrong/it rains when you're here/and it rains when you're gone!

Lord, I place myself in your presence, and ask you to shine your light into my heart as I look back upon this day, so that I may see more clearly your grace in everything that has happened.

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never paralyzed by the need to judge and to compare. They don't dwell on the fact that today's walk isn't as nice as yesterday's, or this forest isn't as interesting as the one they were in last week.

They love being wherever they are. The reason, and it is a great lesson, is no doubt that they are perfectly content to be who they are, without torturing themselves with alternatives: They love being dogs.

I now know that I was in the presence of the only angels we are ever likely to make the acquaintance of: teachers blessed with the love of small people who are trying to find their place in the world.

I feel the bear's heart in her footprints.

By means of all created things, without excaption, the divine assails us, penetrates us, and molds us. We imagined it as distant and inaccessible, when in fact we live steeped in its burning layers

My attention span is very short.

I have a very short attention span.

I have a short attention span.

We live very busy lives. But everyone has a spare minute.

Every second I have spare, I'm with my kids.

Christ is in all, meaning that the divine spark is in all things.

We speak continually of saving time, but time in its richness is most often lost to us when we are busy without relief.