Quotes About Presence

The less you carry the more you will see, the less you spend the more you will experience.

The function of poetry is religious invocation of the muse; its use is the experience of mixed exaltation and horror that her presence excites.

The felt presence of immediate experience-- this is all you know. Everything else comes as unconfirmed rumor.

Meditation isn't really about getting rid of thoughts, it's about changing the pattern of grasping on to things, which in our everyday experience is our thoughts.

To experience anything fully and see it clearly there must be a moment of presence where conceptual thinking is not interfering with your experience of that moment.

Heaven is the experience of being completely present to all that is, all that you are, and all that you have to give. Are you choosing to live in heaven or suffer in hell?

When we are open to ourselves and our own experience, and therefore, open to the world, then the world can respond.

And what is the primary datum? It's the felt presence of immediate experience. In other words, being here now is the primary datum.

It's a different experience to be with your kids when your spouse isn't around.

If you move as a being in every experience of your self, your being replaces your self.

To stay close and intimate with experience is to stay close to the mind; the nitty gritty mind of the way things really are.

Your faith will help you realize that it is Jesus Himself Who is present in the Blessed Sacrament, waiting for you and calling you to spend one special specific hour with Him each week.

Faith is not the supposition that something might be true, but the assurance that someone is there.

Faith will tell us Christ is present, When our human senses fail.

What good is it that Christ was born [2,000] years ago if he is not born now in your heart?

Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is the holiest object presented to your senses.

Faith simply tunes into and turns on the divine flow that has always been present.

People are always going to need physicality; they're going to want to meet other people even more. I've got faith in the physical angle. People have their needs. They won't forget about them.

He who has not God in himself cannot feel His absence.

Faith, consciousness, and awareness all exist beyond the thinking mind.

Let us rise above the things that pass away. Up above, the air is so pure. Jesus can hide Himself but we will find Him there.

Real worship involves waiting.

Give me faith, Lord, to know Your Presence as surely as I know the beating of my own heart. I've felt so far from You.

I learned that faith isn't about knowing all of the right stuff or obeying a list of rules. It's something more, something more costly because it involves being present and making a sacrifice.