Quotes About Presence

attention is our most important tool in the task of improving the quality of experience.

Yet we cannot reach happiness by consciously searching for it. "Ask yourself whether you are happy," said J. S. Mill, "and you cease to be so." It is by being fully involved with every detail of our lives, whether good or bad, that we find happiness, not by trying to look for it directly.

concepto del flujo, el estado en el cual las personas se hallan tan involucradas en la actividad que nada más parece importarles;

Involvement is greatly facilitated by the ability to concentrate. People who suffer from attentional disorders, who cannot keep their minds from wandering, always feel left out of the flow of life.

When attention is focused, minor aches and pains have no chance to register in consciousness.

the self expands through acts of self forgetfulness.

who rightly values happiness and friendship before they're gone?

Joyful people are participants. They don't miss the moments. They turn moments into memories.

Shut the world out, withdraw from all worldly thoughts and occupations, and shut yourself in alone with God, to pray to Him in secret. Let this be your chief object in prayer: to realize the presence of your heavenly Father.1 —ANDREW MURRAY

Our living condition is how much we actually experience of that which is freely available.

No amount of money or ideas can replace the value of being physically present, giving time and attention to people or projects.

Prayer was as fundamental an element in the life of Jesus as breathing. He inhaled his Father's presence so he could exhale his Father's will.

We have become human "doings" rather than human "beings.

The meat is on the street."11

I have stared into the light and you are all my shadows.

Why let grief for what "is not" blind you to what "still is and must always be

I am the bird in flight And the sky it seeks, I am the sun at dawn Rising over the peaks. I am the voice you hear When the clouds turns gray, And the hand you hold When you've lost your way. And though you forget me From time to time, Even now I am with you… As you read this rhyme.

People were sitting together, talking and telling stories face-to-face again, instead of staring at a cell phone screens while texting or chatting with someone else hundreds of miles away while ignoring the ones they were with.

Like God and McDonalds, Aggi was everywhere

It's these small moments that make life worth living. The moments you take for granted. The ones you think will always be in plentiful supply. But if this past year has shown me anything, it's the need to cherish each and every moment, whether good or bad, whether joyful or painful, as the precious fleeting gifts that they are.

What makes life worth living is what is happening right now. Not yesterday, not tomorrow, right now.

God inhabits the praises of His people. And when the King is present, all things are possible. So

If there are real angels in the world," Michael said to his brother, "how come they're never around when we need them?

My journey is from reading about God in the Bible to living with Him on a daily basis.