Quotes About Presence

One of the best ways to see how critical being present is to effective leadership is to notice what being absent, distracted, hiding something, and/or agenda-driven does to people's ability to trust, respect, and have confidence in you.

Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels.

When you live in a condo complex with people next door, I don't know how you can be dead for four months without anybody noticing you not coming and going.

Sometimes when you're going through life you're not really noticing it.

There's something sacred in all of us that we need to protect, and sleep is a way to connect with it, nourish it, and make it more present in our lives.

I don't know where I come from but I'm here now so deal with it.

If they told me I couldn't leave the radius of six miles from my house, I really wouldn't care. There's nowhere I really want to go.

Meditation is difficult for many people because their thoughts are always on some distant object or place. One form of meditation is to label the thought as it appears and then choose to let it go.

It's about creating an atmosphere so that characters can just live in front of the cameras. And to be sensitive, and for the actor to know the sensitivity that they are being observed with.

I'm obsessed with being able to dictate energy in a room.

Actors don't listen to each other. You're so obsessed with what you're saying or doing that the other person could be talking in Swahili and you wouldn't know.

I think I think in the moment. So when I'm in character, I'm in character, and I'm obviously thinking about what's going on around me, but it's easier to do stuff when you're in character.

God is with me; God is helping me; God is guiding me." Spend several minutes each day visualising His presence. Then practise believing that affirmation. Go about your business on the assumption that what you have affirmed and visualised is true. Affirm it, visualise it, believe it, and it will actualise itself. The release of power which this procedure stimulates will astonish you.

the church, but in memory I go and stand

God is with me; God is helping me; God is guiding me." Spend several minutes each day visualizing His presence. Then practice believing that affirmation. Go about your business on the assumption that what you have affirmed and visualized is true. Affirm it, visualize it, believe it, and it will actualize itself. The release of power which this procedure stimulates will astonish you.

my suggestion was that every night, upon going to bed, he place a chair beside his bed and tell himself that Jesus was sitting in that chair all night, watching over him and lifting the burden of worry from his shoulders.

To "remember Jesus" in their eating was not simply to recall a past event. It was to call on Jesus and invite him to transform what they were doing together.18 Jesus' presence at the meal could thus be an "effective" presence that challenged and corrected their eating practices.

To meet and know God people must therefore begin with a deep commitment to serve life as they meet it because this is where God is, at the heart of all life's intersections.

You weren't thinking and you weren't paying attention either. People who don't pay attention often get stuck in the Doldrums.

they never see what they're too much of a hurry to look for

The past reappears because it is a hidden present.

El amor no es eternidad; tampoco es el tiempo sucesivo...Es la percepción instantánea de todos los tiempos en uno solo, de todas las vidas en un instante. ¿Qué ve la pareja, en el espacio de un parpadeo? La identidad de la aparición y la desaparición, la verdad del cuerpo y del no-cuerpo, la visión de la presencia que se disuelve en un esplendor; vivacidad pura, latido del tiempo.

Reverso y anverso; el enamorado ve y toca una presencia, el místico contempla una aparición.

the trees murmur, they tell us something…