Quotes About Presence

When we realize every moment is sacred, we understand that every footstep is sacred, too.

to avoid being blamed after here, do what you must do as a must do whilst you are here!

You cannot live your life in ifs and maybes...you cannot live it in week commencings. You live it right here. You live it now.

The best tourist is one without a camera.

But not just alive like I was yesterday and the day before. Alive like I knew I was alive. Like I could feel the breaths coming into my chest. And I knew I was the person inside my own body.

This is for you, for your breath, whose absence would lessen a greater world.

Mindfulness isn't inherently Eastern, just as electricity isn't inherently Western. Mindfulness is a quality of presence that's innate in all human beings.

True efficiency is taking some time to be fully first thing in the morning. Rushing isn't always efficient.

The world can often seem like a very lonely place. It's important to remember that we are never alone. People (and even animals) can be placed in our path if we just lift our eyes from our cell phones and laptops and look around.

Contemplative prayer is a method of exposing and disengaging from the ordinary obstacles to our awareness of God's presence with us. This prayer is not an end, but a beginning. It's easy to give in to the temptation to chase after the enemy every time he shows himself; sometimes it's the right thing to do. There is a better way to defeat him—fix our eyes and our hearts steadfastly on Jesus. His light will drive out the darkness.

Presence is one of the profound forms of Christian witness.

I will putter as though I had not heard,And lift him into my arms and singWhether he hears my song or not.

Whereas with us - what you hear is what's happening right then and there on the stage - so we don't need no stinking technology.

O, radiance has been given to the mirror because of Your face. No one has ever seen a mirror without Your face. No, no! It is because of Your grace, That in every mirror You Yourself appear and not Your face.

Everyone always thinks of ghosts as being invisible or like air but they take up so much space in a room, you've no idea.

There is nothing you will regret more in your life — nothing — than not being present for your children

You already are what you've been searching for until now. . . There's nothing to search for – you've already got it; you already are it. There's nowhere to get to – you're already here… You don't need improving, fixing or developing – who you already are is the all?encompassing energy behind life!

Cuando miramos de verdad, todo lo que vemos se torna hermoso: las grietas en la acera, una planta muerta, las arrugadas manos de una anciana. Los navajos advierten a su pueblo: «Caminad por la belleza». Cuando nuestra mirada está atenta, todo es hermosura y todo el mundo camina por la belleza.

There is a presence within you that has never suffered. It lives in joy that has no cause. It is who you most deeply are.

She doesn't attend gallery openings or apear at art-world parties. "People need to see the work. It's more me than my physical presence.

The key was to live moment to moment, not in the past nor in the future. I

Rejoice! Know that I am with you and for you and will never leave you; take courage that I will fight for you and be your shield and buckler and provide for you when you are old; I will supply your every need, I will give you victory over death, I have prepared a place for you in heaven

You could tell a lot about people who would stop what they were doing to watch the Almighty go about His business.

I believe if I were charged with having a goal, it would be to live without fretting—to live more fully in the moment not always huffing about as I've done in recent years . . . to live humbly—and appreciatively—with whatever God furnishes.