Quotes About Presence

If the one I waited for came now, what should I do? This morning's garden filled with snow is far too lovely for footsteps to mar.

The filling of the Spirit is essential for spiritual leadership. And each believer has as much of the Spirit's presence as he or she will ever need. Our task is to remain yielded to Him.

The Spirit is more than just one of God's gifts among others; the Holy Spirit is the unrestricted presence of God in which our life wakes up, becomes wholly and entirely living, and is endowed with the energies of life.

Toen ik aan hun sterfbed zat, zag ik dat de ziel bestond. Tijdens hun leven had ik haar nooit gezien, maar toen ze dood waren, zag ik dat er iets verdwenen was. Ziel. Iets dat zich alleen kenbaar maakt door afwezigheid.

I'm not letting you out of my sight.

When we stop trying to force pleasant feelings, they are freer to emerge on their own . When we stop trying to resist unpleasant feelings, we may find that they can drift away by themselves . When we stop trying to make something happen, a whole world of fresh and unanticipated experiences may become accessible to us.

The quality of mindfulness is not a neutral or blank presence. True mindfulness is imbued with warmth, compassion, and interest. In the light of this engaged attention, we discover it is impossible to hate or fear anything or anyone we truly understand. The nature of mindfulness is engagement: where there is interest, a natural, unforced attention follows.

once you see the difference that paying full attention can make to the small things in life, you start to get an inkling of the cost of inattention.

Everyday life offers endless opportunities for you to stop, to focus, to remind yourself to be fully awake and present to what is happening right now

Thirdly, the breath provides a natural, gently moving target to focus on in your meditation; it grounds you in the here and now. You cannot take a breath for five minutes ago, or for five minutes' time. You can only take a breath for now

To cultivate mindfulness truly, we need to become fully integrated with our body once more

You come to realize that thoughts come and go of their own accord; that you are not your thoughts.

G'Kar: I believe that when we leave a place, part of it goes with us and part of us remains. Go anywhere in the station when it is quiet, and just listen. After a while, you will hear the echoes of all our conversations, every thought and word we've exchanged. Long after we are gone, our voices will linger in these walls for as long as this place remains. But I will admit that the part of me that is going will very much miss the part of you that is staying.

Spirituality is not easy to define, but you can tell when it is present. It is the fragrance of the garden of the Lord, the power to change the atmosphere around you, the influence that makes Christ real to others.

The alternative to being is reacting, and reacting interrupts being and annihilates.

Nothing can be gained by extensive study and wide reading. Give them up immediately.

Know that the true dharma emerges of itself [during the practice of zazen], clearing away hindrances and distractions.

So I stayed with the old priest who was my teacher, but lots of unanswered questions always came up. Then I thought, "Why don't you teach me anything?" But my teacher didn't care. He just lived. He just let me be alive every day.

My mom, she is the most unbelievable mom that you could ever have in your entire life and she's always with me on everything. The most I've ever been away from her is two days. I love her more than anybody could ever know.

God has yet to bless anyone except where they actually are, and if we faithlessly discard situation after situation, moment after moment, as not being "right",we will simply have no place to receive his kingdom into our life.

He used to tell himself although he knew it wasn't true that the air around her house was different because it was near to her.

I want to be there to remind them I haven't got a tongue to stick into the cheek I haven't got either.

When the girl herself is absent, the room is like a blank page, almost no marks or clues to say anything about her, which perhaps does say something about her.

Samus. That's the only name you'll hear. Samus. It means the end and the death. Samus. I am Samus. Samus is all around you. Samus is the man beside you. Samus will gnaw on your bones. Look out! Samus is here.