Quotes About Presence

One of the easiest human acts is also the most healing. Listening to someone. Simply listening. Not advising or coaching, but silently and fully listening.

Be near me when my light is low... And all the wheels of being slow.

Mark it down. You will never go where God is not.

Live the moment for the moment.

I vow to live fully in each moment.

If you can become a mirror you have become a meditator. Meditation is nothing but skill in mirroring. And now, no word moves inside you so there is no distraction.

In the garden I see only your face From trees and blossoms I inhale only your fragrance.

The idea is to just stop. Just wait. Don't react. Therein lies the whole universe. Just don't react.

A bore is a person who lights up the room simply by leaving it.

You are at a choice-point in every moment of each circumstance, each activity, spoken word and thought.

When you are already in Detroit, you don't have to take a bus to get there.

It's a hard thing to explain to somebody who hasn't felt it, but the presence of death and danger has a way of bringing you fully awake. It makes things vivid.

All I have is all I need and all I need is all I have in this moment.

Time cannot be packaged and ribboned and left under trees for christmas morning.Time can't be given.But it can be shared

Don't try to understand it. You won't succeed. Don't try to see it. You can't. Try to live it, and you will be living out of the center.

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.

Far from being disturbed by the presence of the church, the power structure of the average community is consoled by the church's often vocal sanction of things as they are.

Happiness hides in life's small details. If you're not looking, it becomes invisible.

So long as one person remembers you, you'll never really be dead.

Redefine you. Oh God, life is so beautiful. Don't let it pass you by. Don't miss it. Don't miss it.

What more could there be, but the absolute beauty of our lives? Look around you, for heaven's sake and stop thinking. It is only in your thoughts and in analytical processes that you lose yourself.

Every single one of us already has everything we need to be the happiest person on earth; it's simply up to us to remember that in every moment.

The present moment is a powerful goddess.

It is a good and safe rule to sojourn in every place as if you meant to spend your life there, never omitting an opportunity of doing a kindness, or speaking a true word, or making a friend.