Quotes About Presence

When one is frank, one's very presence is a compliment.

As we let our light shine, we consciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence actually liberates others.

Heaven on earth is knowing God, loving God, allowing Him to shine within us, and experiencing His power and Presence in all we think and do. Supernatural signs and wonders that we cannot ever produce in our own ability will follow. The apostle Paul admonished us to be imitators of God as dear children, to walk in love and as children of light.

Clarity comes from engagement, not thought!

In short, here's what making is-ness your business means: engage in your life with enthusiasm exactly as it is, regardless of your likes and dislikes, your preferences, ideas, beliefs, and opinions about how things should be or could be. Unconditionally allow things to be the way they are. When you deal with what is, or your is-ness, you can then choose who you'd like to be in relationship to that.

Energetically speaking, when you are lost in your thoughts, you are a closed system that's emitting "I'm not available" vibes. You reduce the probability of meeting someone because spiritually, you're not open for business.

I am living. I remember you.

But there are moments, walking, when I catch a glimpse of myself in the window glass, say, the window of the corner video store, and I'm gripped by a cherishing so deep for my own blowing hair, chapped face, and unbuttoned coat that I'm speechless: I am living. I remember you.

This is what the living do.

Breathe next to me. And I will capture a piece of your soul along with mine.

I have limits. Perhaps I can stretch them. But respecting them, I have learned, is generally wiser than pretending they're not there. Because I don't have all the time in the world, I have this whole hour, this day. The duration of one cup of coffee. The time it takes to listen to one more winding sentence or to stay with a child on her slow way to sleep.

Then she saw him in outline, standing in the doorway, his powerful figure filling the open space.

Fear knocked at the door. Faith answered. And lo no one was there.

Here is a rural fellow that will not be denied your Highness' presence: he brings you figs.

Salt and the center of the world have to be there, in that spot on the tablecloth.

Eat without the TV going on. Learn to appreciate food with only the entertainment of conversation-yours and someone else's.

No man is lonely while eating spaghetti:it requires so much attention.

May Mary, who in the freedom of her 'Fiat' and her presence at the foot of the cross, offered to the world, Jesus, the Liberator, help us to find him in the Sacrament of the altar

True and absolute freedom is only found in the presence of God.

Presence is the key to freedom, so you can only be free now.

So there's only transcendence in the moment. Nobody can be transcended forever. That's why I say, "Who cares if you're enlightened forever?"

Oh, Liberty! thou goddess heavenly bright! Profuse of bliss, and pregnant with delight! Eternal pleasures in thy presence reign, And smiling plenty leads thy wanton train.

Realize that the Lord is here now, and the freedom you receive is immediate.

What will carry us into living freedom is not the holding of attention so much as the holding of appreciation.