Quotes About Presence

So whether you do your first downward dog at 14 or 44, it's not your history but your presence on your mat that counts.

Presence is like a gap in the flow of history, where all of [a] sudden it is not past and not future.

Somewhere, all the people we have loved and lost are still among us, in the house that we call history.

The historical sense involves a perception not only of the pastness of the past but of its presence.

To tell a ghost story means being willing to be haunted.

She was a voice with a body as afterthought, a wry smile that sailed through heavy traffic. Give her a history and she'd disappear.Eric Packer about Vija Kinski

It must not content us to take our bodies to church if we leave our hearts at home.

There's really no point in having children if you're not going to be home enough to father them.

You end up making a home in every place you're at, in a small way. In any way you can find a kind of mindfulness.

The whole of meditation practice can be essentialized into these 3 crucial points: Bring your mind home. Release. And relax!

And at home by the fire, whenever you look up there I shall be— and whenever I look up, there will be you. -Gabriel Oak

Recognize, you ARE Home. Not, you are 'at home'... you ARE Home. Not, you have 'come home'... you ARE Home. You are that which IS Home.

God is at home. We are in the far country.

It isn't necessary that you leave home. Sit at your desk and listen. Don't even listen, just wait. Don't wait, be still and alone. The whole world will offer itself to you.

I have arrived. I am home. My destination is in each step.

Meditation is bringing the mind home.

As long as there is a 'you' doing or not-doing, thinking or not-thinking, 'meditating' or 'not-meditating' you are no closer to home than the day you were born.

There is one aspect of happiness that's been well studied, and it's the notion of flow. Ask yourselves, when for you does time stop? When are you truly at home, wanting to be no place else?

Meditation means to look deeply, to touch deeply, so we can realize we are already home.

Why abandon a seat in your own home to wander in vain through dusty regions of another land? If you make one false step, you miss what is right before your eyes.

If you never heard opportunity knock, maybe you're never at home.

Make room for the Lord in your homes and in your hearts, and He will be your companion. He will be by your side.

There must be an angel, Playing with my heart. And when I think that I'm alone, It seems there's more of us at home...

Let your heart go Home, even before your body arrives.