Quotes About Presence

I'll never forget Jonah's face. A light poured out of him and became the spirit of the room, like a genie released from a bottle after centuries of darkness.

He came, not so much as to declare a message, but rather that there might be a message to proclaim. He Himself was and is the message, not His teachings, but He Himself constituted Christianity.

better a live bird in the jungle of the body than two stuffed birds on the library table.

To some degree...he has the same effect on people. People naturally flock to him. It's like he's giving off a light that I don't have. It's so bright I feel like I'll be extinguished.

Redemption means that God can in a moment "weave" into your memory the awareness of His presence.

Enlightenment is understanding that there is nowhere to go, nothing to do, and nobody you have to be except exactly who you're being right now.

The point of life is not to get anywhere—it is to notice that you are, and have always been, already there. You are always and forever in the moment of pure creation. The point of life therefore is to create—who and what you are, and then to experience that.

Things to do today: 1) Breathe in. 2) Breathe out.

I'm fine. Well, I'm not fine - I'm here." "Is there something wrong with that?" "Absolutely.

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon—instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our window today. —DALE CARNEGIE

I have come to understand church as this: the presence of Jesus among His people called out as a spiritual family to pursue His mission on this planet.

The church is at its best in two's or three's-not in two or three hundreds or two or three thousands. "Where two or three are gathered together, there am I in the midst of them.

going to the Meetings

Though we rush ahead to save our time, we are only what we feel

If spectacle is lacking in everyday life, it may be because we have forgotten where and how to look.

assumia, em casa, no ônibus, no escritório, um ar de estátua no próprio monumento.

Ghosts were not the spirits of the dead returning but the memories of the living not yet laid to rest.

I AM THAT I AM. [Exodus 3:14]

Your whole world may be likened to solidified space mirroring the beliefs and acceptances as projected by a formless, faceless presence, namely, I AM. Reduce the whole to its primordial substance and nothing would remain but you, a dimensionless presence, the conceiver.

Having gone before and prepared the place, you have returned to John and are now taking him with you through the interval of three days into the prepared place that he might share your joy with you, for where I AM there ye may also be.

To accomplish this seemingly impossible feat you take your attention away from your problem and place it upon just being. You say silently but feelingly, "I AM." Do not condition this awareness but continue declaring quietly, "I AM—I AM." Simply feel that you are faceless and formless and continue doing so until you feel yourself floating.

Everybody carries a world. But certain people change the air about them.

Where are you, Aeney? You slip away from me as you always did. Where are you?

We only have this one moment: NOW.