Quotes About Presence

Give your attention to the experience of seeing rather than to the object seen and you will find yourself everywhere.

In Silence God ceases to be an object and becomes an experience.

Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.

All I can be is who I am right now; I can experience that and work with it. That's all I can do. The rest is the dream of the ego.

Let yourself become that space that welcomes any experience without judgement.

But a man with an experience is never at the mercy of a man with only an argument. ... If we can lead people into the manifest presence of God, all false theological houses of cards will tumble down.

True meditation is letting go of manipulating our experience.

It could be that people want to consume sculpture the way they consume paintings - through photographs... I'm interested in the experience of sculpture in the place where it resides.

The less there is of you, the more you experience the sublime.

What we get from each moment depends on the attention we give it, and the quality of our experience reflects the quality of our awareness.

From experience we know that whenever we are truly awake and alive, we are also truly grateful.

Embodiment means we no longer say, I had this experience; we say, I am this experience.

Not wanting to see, not wanting to be in touch with one's experience is something akin to cognitive laziness, an eclipse of the experiencer or inner witnessing in the person.

There's a small still center into which conception can arrive. And when it arrives, you make it welcome with your experience.

Enjoy the experience, don't just experience the experience

It's a transformative experience to simply pause instead of immediately filling up space.

When there is no thought in the mind, no thought of thought, when the mind is quiet but fully alert, we experience a little bit of enlightenment.

Most of us all walk around as if we're sleepwalking. We really don't experience the world fully, because we're half-asleep, doing things we automatically think we have to do.

We are so numb we don't even know what a direct experience is. We have an experience, then we think about it and we think the thinking about it is the experience.

The significance of something lies in its presence here and now. I don't care what it has been or what it will become. It is the experience of things that matters, the confrontation with things.

Wherever you are, be there. Lifestyle is not something we do; it is something we experience. And until we learn to be there, we will never master the art of living well.

What would happen if you were to allow everything to be exactly as it is? If you gave up the need for control, and instead embraced the whole of your experience in each moment that arose?

The level of consciousness you choose to tune in to each moment of each day will determine the quality of your experience of the world.

The position that I take partly as a result of living in Asia is where you stop living according to your expectations and you become available to experience things as they are.