Quotes About Presence❓

We cannot really experience anything without being present to it. True presence requires that we be attentive to what is happening . . . here and now. It is an offering of our awareness, our participation, and our willingness. This is a basic and profound courtesy. By such courtesy we are deeply transformed.—Gunilla Norris

When we persevere with the help of a gentle discipline, we slowly come to hear the still, small voice and to feel the delicate breeze, and so to come to know the presence of Love.—Henri Nouwen

Somewhere, right at the bottom of one’s own being, one generally does know where one should go and what one should do. But there are times when the clown we call 'I' behaves in such a distracting fashion that the inner voice cannot make its presence felt.—Jung

Often the most loving thing we can do when a friend is in pain is to share the pain—to be there even when we have nothing to offer except our presence and even when being there is painful to ourselves.—M. Scott Peck

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. You are a Child of G_d. Your playing small does not serve the world. We were born to manifest the glory of G_d that is within us. It’s not just in some of us, it’s in all of us. As we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.—Marianne Williamson

Just remaining quietly in the presence of G_d, listening to Him, being attentive to Him, requires a lot of courage and know-how.—Thomas Merton

Let there always be quiet, dark churches in which people can take refuge. Houses of G_d filled with his silent presence. There, even when they do not know how to pray, at least they can be still and breathe easily.—Thomas Merton

We seek what is hidden in plain view. We glimpse it when veils shift in a wind of grace. We glimpse it when we make way for it through our own loving-kindness. We glimpse it when we cross paths with a great being who shines forth with the indescribable presence. Our souls cannot hold on to these glimpses, but Greek philosopher Plotinus assures us that ‘there will be the time of vision unbroken’.—??

Since I have never written a book before and my father, who was a writer of books and taught me how to write many years ago, is gone, I am alone but am comforted by the eternal presence of my father and his old Underwood up in the attic. I am both down here and up there. Omemee was my town, and that’s where the house was. That’s where the attic is. Someday I want us to live on a lake up there in North Ontario.—Neil Young

Instead of looking for love, give it; constantly renew it in yourself and you will always feel its presence within you. It will always be there smiling at you, gazing on you kindly.—Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov

Then you grow up! You arrive! You can have your buttons pushed by anyone. Seriously, any particular irritating person in any particular setting can—usually it is unwittingly—push your one-of-a-kind buttons and you will be able to remain calm! You will NOT be fuzzy-headed! You will not get enraged! You will not be paralyzed by the molecules of emotions! Finally! You can enter almost any fray and remain a non-anxious presence!—Dr. Murray Bowen