Quotes About Presence

life. I believe that every person deserves to feel someone acknowledge their presence, no matter how humble they may be or even how important.

be here teaching you, I could be home sitting on my comfortable

God's house is now in the people of God wherever they are, whether it's in the parking lot, in a bowling alley, or in an office cubicle.

Meditation is a valuable exercise, but eventually you have to open up your eyes and look around.

you can live a whole life time never being awake.

Where are you? Here What time is it? Now What are you? This moment.

You haven't yet opened your heart fully, to life, to each moment. The peaceful warrior's way is not about invulnerability, but absolute vulnerability--to the world, to life, and to the Presence you felt. All along I've shown you by example that a warrior's life is not about imagined perfection or victory; it is about love. Love is a warrior's sword; wherever it cuts, it gives life, not death.

The warrior is Here, Now.

It's wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago.

Wherever you are, make sure you're there.

your attention is the most valuable property you can ever possess.

our time loitering with someone who

We are before one gaze and His is the only one that counts.

She had the soft presence of a fish hook in the eye.

Notice the way the dirt feels under your feet, how great the air smells, how beautiful the trees are, how calm and majestic." He snorted, and she could tell he was fighting not to roll his eyes as he asked, "Calm as opposed to what? All the other trees that run around like headless chickens?

Child," she said, not taking her gaze from the window, "God ain't waiting at no finish line. No, Jesus is running with you, caring more about the steps on the way than the big finish. Can't nobody impress God. Just look at what he created out there!

God would be there with it, in every moment, sure as the North Star.

I was longing for the moment I was in, even as I was in it.

I believe that there is something connecting us ... Something that was here before we got here and will still be here after we're gone. I've begun to believe that all of our consciousnesses are bound up in that greater consciousness. ... An animating presence .... [pp. 205-206]

A man should cause an impression," she said. "He should leave you with something to think about. Without that, there's no magic.

My little son, Atticus, desperately needs his dad and I haven't been there for him... and that's sad.

There's an accelerated change to the relationship that happens when you're able to really listen, to be incredibly present with the person.

The Harvard Business Review recently had an article called 'The Human Moment,' about how to make real contact with a person at work: … The fundamental thing you have to do is turn off your BlackBerry, close your laptop, end your daydream and pay full attention to the person.

alongside the chairs in which his executives, marketing mavens, and software jockeys take their places, Bezos includes one more chair that remains empty. It's there to remind those assembled who's really the most important person in the room: the customer.