Quotes About Presence

They are noisy; their untidy feet snap twigs and kick stones without heed for what might hear.

It's about letting go. It might sound crazy, but it's a kind of acceptance. A being right there and a not being there.

Peretur had never seen so many beasts living in so small a space; even closed, if she shut her eyes she could hear them, feel them, taste their curiosity.

Her back was straight, she moved with enormous, fragile dignity.

Gwladus smiled, that rich slow curve that blotted out everything but right here, right now, then leaned in and kissed her.

Hidden in the leafy canopy, sometimes she stayed so still and quiet even the birds forgot she was there.

L'homme ne possède pas son intelligence, son intelligence est en visite chez lui.

Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.

Je suis partout où je suis.

Here I am, motionless in the room, watching what is going on in the street. Nothing. Only reality.

You're either going to walk through life and experience it fully or you're going to be a voyeur. And I'm not a voyeur.

Holding hands, for example, is a way to remember how it feels to say nothing together.

You don't dare to think ahead too much, for you don't want this melted under the heat of your attention, don't want it gone from your life.

Edmund slipped out of his shoes and socks and worked his toes down under the layer of pine needles, then stood silent, opening himself to the green." "Permeable Borders: Sourheart

Live where you are, not only where you think you should be. Otherwise, you will end up living nowhere." I

There is only one meditation—the rigorous refusal to harbor thoughts.

Watch your thoughts and watch yourself watching the thoughts. The state of freedom from all thoughts will happen suddenly and by the bliss of it you shall recognize it.

Awareness is ever there. It need not be realized. Open the shutter of the mind and it will be flooded with light.

You are concerned with your own happiness and I am telling you that there is no such thing. Happiness is never your own, it is where the 'I' is not.

Trace your misunderstandings and abandon them, that is all. There is nothing to seek or find, for there is nothing lost. Relax and watch the "I am." Reality is just behind it. Keep quiet, keep silent; it will emerge or, rather, it will take you in.

As you watch your mind, you discover yourself as the watcher. When you stand motionless, only watching, you discover yourself as the light behind the watcher.

Happiness is never your own; it is where the "I" is not.

Worship and meditate on your consciousness, the same consciousness which is in all living beings, indicated by the five sense organs and three gunas which supports your living and presence. Continue doing your activities; they will carry on spontaneously, but give attention to the knowledge that you are. Hold your beingness. Self-knowledge will tell you everything you need to know.

Television is for appearing on - not for looking at.