Quotes About Presence

Here and now are the only place and time when one ever enjoys himself or accomplishes anything. Most of our suffering takes place when we allow our minds to imagine the future or mull over the past.

It's not about the win or the loss; if we're here to experience, then we are free.

All who enter even a little into that state of being present will experience a calmness and a degree of ecstasy which they will want to repeat.

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Sin pensar o analizar, Jack aumentó su conciencia del golpe que ejecutaba. Cuando la mente se halla libre de todo juicio y pensamiento, está en silencio y actúa como un espejo. Entonces, y solo entonces, podemos ver las cosas tal como son.

Quieting the mind means less regretting. The mind is still when it is totally here and now in perfect oneness with the action and the actor. It is the purpose of the Inner Game to increase the frequency and the duration of these moments, quieting the mind by degrees and realizing thereby a continual expansion of our capacity to learn and perform.

Focus means keeping the mind now and here.

Find the shortest, simplest way between the earth, the hands and the mouth.

Stop thinking, and end your problems.

In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.

He who stands on his tiptoes does not stand firm...

Looking for me, Angel?

I noticed." Lazaro slowly approached her near the bed. "I should be focused on a thousand other things right now. Instead, here I am. Noticing everything about you, Melena.

Jesus, could he take up any more space?

I am where I need to be," he insists, his voice thick and rough with need. "Right here, with you.

Face the hard questions that life requires you to ask. Gather with other travelers on the narrow road, pilgrims who acknowledge their confusion and feel their fears. Then, together, live those questions in My Presence.

It's so natural to think the Presence of Jesus has no greater purpose than to improve the quality of our journey through life—with quality defined as a pleasurable, satisfying, self-affirming existence—a journey where certain things don't go wrong or, if they do, they correct themselves. Marriages should work, biopsies should come back benign, ministry efforts should succeed, and we should feel pretty good about the way most things go.

Spiritual formation is relational formation. It is easier, and therefore more talked about, to practice spiritual disciplines in an effort to feel God's presence than to practice them in order to draw on the Spirit's power to love well. Spiritually forming people may or may not regularly experience God with them. But spiritually forming people will grow to increasingly reveal God's nature by how they relate.

Harry Bluebond, then 24, was among the crowds of people who came to see John Lennon that Friday: 'John was signing autographs and taking donations. I was fascinated by his presence, because it was really so different from what I expected. It was not the performer I was watching, not the man I idolized as a teenager and young adult, it was a real person. He was so natural. He was as real as you can get.

The absence of biblical morality is proof positive that I don't know or follow Jesus.6 But the presence of biblical morality doesn't necessarily validate that I have a genuine relationship with Jesus.

He chose to be with them in their trials rather than delivering them from their trials.

They say you don't need to develop jhanic states, just enough concentration to be with any object for as long as it exists, so you can see that it arises and passes away.

We're not looking at the breath in order to get to enlightenment.

You just give total attention to the movement of energy known as fear, total mindfulness, not separating yourself from it at all, also not identifying with it.