Quotes About Presence

let's live suddenly without thinking under honest trees

Some people spend all their time on a vacation taking pictures so that when they get home they can show their friends evidence that they had a good time. They don't pause to let the vacation enter inside of them and take that home.

Everything gets over, and nothing is ever enough. Except the part you carry with you. It's the same as going on a vacation. Some people spend all their time on a vacation taking pictures so that when they get home they can show their friends evidence that they had a good time. They don't pause to let the vacation enter inside of them and take that home.

We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows. Choose a place where you won't do harm - yes, choose a place where you won't do very much harm, and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine.

Hey, don't be mean, 'cause remember: wherever you go. . . there you are.

Wherever you go, there you are.. (Buckaroo Banzai)

Wherever you go, there you are.

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you will ever have.

Don't Seek Happiness. If you seek it, you won't find it, because seeking is the antithesis of happiness

Can you look without the voice in your head commenting, drawing conclusions, comparing, or trying to figure something out?

If your mind carries a heavy burden of past, you will experience more of the same. The past perpetuates itself through lack of presence. The quality of your consciousness at this moment is what shapes the future.

The moment you become aware of the ego in you, it is strictly speaking no longer the ego, but just an old, conditioned mind-pattern. Ego implies unawareness. Awareness and ego cannot coexist.

Being must be felt. It can't be thought.

The moment that judgement stops through acceptance of what it is, you are free of the mind. You have made room for love, for joy, for peace.

In today's rush we all think too much, seek too much, want too much and forget about the joy of just Being.

The significance is hiding in the insignificant. Appreciate everything.

Become conscious of being conscious.

It is when we are trapped in incessant streams of compulsive thinking that the universe really disintegrates for us, and we lose the ability to sense the interconnectedness of all that exists.

Die to the past every moment. You don't need it. Only refer to it when it is absolutely relevant to the present. Feel the power of this moment and the fullness of Being. Feel your presence.

Rather than being your thoughts and emotions, be the awareness behind them.

Knowing yourself is to be rooted in Being, instead of lost in your mind.

The human condition: lost in thought.

Even a stone, and more easily a flower or a bird, could show you the way back to God, to the Source, to yourself. When you look at it or hold it & let it be without imposing a word of mental label on it, a sense of awe, of wonder, arises within you. Its essence silently communicates itself to you and reflects your own essence back to you.

When another recognizes you, that recognition draws the dimension of Being more fully into this world through both of you. That is the love that redeems the world.