Quotes About Presence

Good posture and an attitude let you get away with anything.

Accept the present moment without judgement.

The whole zen attitude is to bring to your notice the fact that there is no effort to be made. The zen attitude is that of effortlessness.

Grief ate at these doctors, distracting them from both their families and their patients. Many reported withdrawing from emotional involvement with their patients and that their patients had noticed they weren't fully present.

sake…. What are you doing? …

Every day contains a thousand little servings of free time you might just have overlooked. And each moment contains beauty, wonder, and models you never need to pay.

Sometimes he felt her watching him in return. Studying him. Once he heard her breathing stop, then start then stop again. 'What is it?' he asked, and she frowned a little. I'm trying to breathe with you.

I know that no matter how lonely I get, I'll never be truly alone again. Our loved ones don't leave us. They just move out of sight for a while, and wait...in the shades.

Pay attention to the people you love. (Not later. Right now.)

You're in front of my face, he said every day. It was an old Yemeni expression, hard to translate into English. It was something you said to a loved one, to a friend, while pointing to your own face. It meant that the person before you was never out of your vision. That you kept them foremost in your mind.

They were locked in mutual regard, and the moment, the way it stretched and luxuriated in itself, asked for continuation. Why move?

Nothing in the world sounds worst than that, to be here and safe.

Mis ojos vieron lo que vieron y mis oídos oyeron mi respiración y los sonidos que se sobreponían a ella.

I am alive and you are alive so we must fill the air with our words. I will fill today, tomorrow, every day until I am taken back to God. I will tell stories to people who will listen and to people who don't want to listen, to people who seek me out and to those who run. All the while I will know that you are there. How can I pretend that you do not exist? It would be almost as impossible as you pretending that I do not exist.

Adherence to established values, an affinity to creativity. Perseverance and innovation. The dualities of a hardness like stone and the pliancy of the wind-bent bamboo, these twin qualities flux and twine through the persona of the master and give him the presence and personality by which we know him.

No longer possessed by possessions, we may become open enough to become possessed by God.

I have learned over the years that the most important thing to deal with is whatever is most on your mind. The fact that you think it shouldn't be on your mind is irrelevant. It's there, and it's there for a reason.

is possible to be effectively doing while you are delightfully being, in your ordinary workaday world.

You can only put your conscious attention on one thing at a time. If that's all that has your attention, you're in flow.

It is possible to be effectively doing while you are delightfully being, in your ordinary workaday world.

If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything; it is open for everything. —Shunryu Suzuki

If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything; it is open for everything. —Shunryu Suzuki And

There is one thing we can do, and the happiest people are those who can do it to the limit of their ability. We can be completely present. We can be all here. We can give . . . our attention to the opportunity before us. —Mark Van Doren

if you think too much about things, life sometimes just passes you by.