Quotes About Presence

Live where you are so God can meet you at your needs.

You will be peaceful when all your ideas about awareness are dropped and you begin to function like a computer. You must be a machine, function automatically in this world, never questioning your actions before, during, or after they occur.

Sometimes we are so involved with our activity that we lose ourselves in it, and in that sense we are living in the moment.

understanding is the absence of the demand for understanding -- now or tomorrow.

You are not looking at anything; you are not in contact with anything living, as long as you use your thoughts to understand and experience anything.

To be satisfied with what I have. Not to postpone things. That life is fragile.

Yoga isn't about change; it is about constant awareness, focus, and presence in the moment.

Somewhere there is someone that dreams of your smile, and finds in your presence that life is worthwhile, so when you are lonely remember its true, someone somewhere is thinking of you.

The best kind of friend is the one you could sit on a porch with, never saying a word, and walk away feeling like that was the best conversation you've had.

The best fertilizer is the gardener's shadow.

Accident, n.: A condition in which presence of mind is good, but absence of body is better.

Fake friends are like shadows: always near you at your brightest moments, but nowhere to be seen at your darkest hour ,True friends are like stars, you don't always see them but they are always there.

To use the world well, to be able to stop wasting it and our time in it, we need to relearn our being in it.

OJ says you only feel your skin at your best and worst moments so right now I can feel all of my skin, on my fingers, on my face, full of itch and fire.

Climbing in the Spirit is accompanied by kneeling, and not by running; by surrender, and not by determination. Despair of self leads to utter desperation; but beyond these mists lies the sunshine of God's presence.

All religions will pass, but this will remain: simply sitting in a chair and looking in the distance.

You are acting, not being." Strasberg explained, "I stress the difference between the actor who thinks acting is an imitation of life, and the actor who feels acting is living

I could always know from this moment on that God is ever present, and the human picture just does not matter. That miracles are normal and to expect them.

While doing yoga we are more ourselves, and more than ourselves.

What did you forget I existed?

philip closed his eyes and stood upright and immobile in the middle of the silet room. In that moment the roar of battle, the creaking wood of the siege engines, the furious galloping of the horses all faded away; he simply stood stock still and listened to his son's breathing.

It is the everyday moments that are most important to savor because they are the most common. If you hold your breath to savor only the off-the-charts amazing moments that happen in life, you'll spend most of your life waiting on those moments to arrive. If instead you open your eyes to the miracle and gift of each moment, happiness is bound to follow you all the days of your life. So

If there are those you love, whoever or wherever you are, hold them. Find them and hold them as tightly as you can. Resist their squirming and impatience and uncomfortable laughter, and just feel their heart throbbing against yours. Give thanks that for this moment, for this one precious moment, they are here, they are with you, and they know they are utterly, completely, entirely loved.

You are not going to find yourself anywhere except right where you are.