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Presence The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth. ~Yuan Sou Beyond the beauty of external forms, there is more here: something that cannot be named, something ineffable, some deep, inner, holy essence. Whenever and wherever there is beauty, this inner essence shines through somehow. It only reveals itself to you when you are present. ~Eckhart Tolle There is only Being, Being everything. ~Jeff Foster If the sight of the blue skies fill you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive. ~Eleonora Duse Every now and again take a good look at something not made with hands–a mountain, a star, the turn of a stream. There will come to you wisdom and patience and solace and, above all, the assurance that you are not alone in the world. ~Sidney Lovett I searched for God and found only myself. I searched for myself and found only God. ~Sufi proverb We want to worship a living God. I have not seen anything but God all my life, nor have you… He is everywhere, saying, “I am.” The moment you feel “I am,” you are conscious of Existence. Where shall we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being? ~Vivekananda I believe that God is in me as the sun is in the colour and fragrance of a flower, the Light in my darkness, the Voice in my silence. ~Helen Keller A single Spirit fills infinity. It is that of God, whom nothing limits or divides, who is everywhere entire and nowhere confined. ~Eliphas Levi One of the first things to do is learn to accept, and to expect this Power to flow through everything we do. ~Ernest Holmes Today I do affirm that I am Divinely guided…There is That within which knows what to do and how to do it, and It compels me to act on what it knows. ~Ernest Holmes All nature is alive, awake and aware with the Divine Presence, and everything in life responds to the song of the heart. ~Ernest Holmes The Holy Spirit is our harpist, And all strings, Which are touched in Love Must sound. ~Mechtild of Magdeburg God is the light which, never seen itself, makes all things visible, and clothes itself in colors. ~Jean Paul Richter Silence is the entrance into the deepest experience of Being. ~Robert Sardelo You can hear the footsteps of God when silence reigns in the mind. ~Sai Baba Silence is the mother of everything that has come out from the Depth. And Silence kept quiet about she was unable to describe: the Unspeakable. ~Clement of Alexandria Whether talking or remaining silent, Whether moving or standing quiet, The Essence itself is ever at ease. ~Daishi Your God dwells within you, as you. ~Muktananda Open your eyes and the whole world is full of God. ~Jakob Bohme Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant? ~Henry David Thoreau Although you appear in earthly form, your Essence is Pure Consciousness. ~Rumi Closer than a touch on your skin, Deeper than the breath you draw in, Stronger than a hurricane wind is the dweling of God within. ~unknown God is consciousness that pervades the entire universe of the living and the non-living. ~Ramakrishna Thine own consciousness, shining void and inseparable from the great body of radiance, hath no birth nor death, and is immutable boundless light. ~Tibetan Book of the Dead In music, in a flower, in a leaf, in an act of kindness… I see what people call God in all these things. ~Pablo Casals Something of God flows into us from the blue of the sky, the taste of honey, the delicious embrace of water, whether cold or hot, and even from sleep itself. ~C.S. Lewis You are consciousness. Consciousness is spirit. ~Gangaji Go deeper and deeper in meditation to reach the seabed of consciousness. ~Kabir There is some principle of magic in everything, some living quality. Something living, something real, is taking place in everything. ~Chogyam Trungpa He is the breath inside the breath. ~Kabir You are consciousness and consciousness is you. ~Nisargadatta Maharaj Between God and Me, there is no “Between.” ~Meister Eckhart Spirit is the essence of consciousness, the energy of the universe that creates all things. ~Shakti Gawain Consciousness is the intelligence, the organizing principle behind the arising of forms. ~Eckhart Tolle We may ignore, but we nowhere evade the presence of God. The world is crowded with Him. He walks everywhere incognito. ~C.S. Lewis God is a pure no-thing concealed in the now and here. ~Angelus Silesius What is spirit? It is the eternal substance, that which is. ~R. J. Campbell Being must be felt. It can’t be thought. ~Eckhart Tolle Once you’ve seen the face of God, you see that same face on everyone you meet. ~Deng Ming-Dao Go deep and see the divine effulgence, feel the divine joy. ~Ashokananda I begin to understand as never before that holiness is made of dailiness, of living life as it comes to me, not as I insist it be. ~Joan Chittister To be closer to God, be closer to people. ~Kahlil Gibran Among the great things which are to found among us, the Being of Nothingness is the greatest. ~Leonardo Da Vinci I want to be alive to all the life that is in me now, to know each moment to the utmost. ~Kahlil Gibran The search for self-worth begins by finding what is indestructible inside, then letting it be. ~Prudence Kohl The more conscious you become the less I there is to be conscious. There is just consciousness and no one understanding or experiencing it, because you ARE it, you are the consciousness. ~Steven Sadleir We must realize that there is one life and that it is all spirit; even matter is a passing state of spirit. ~Hazrat Inayat Khan If you are willing to be lived by it, you will see it everywhere, even in the most ordinary things. ~Lao Tzu Eye cannot see It, Tongue cannot utter It, Mind cannot grasp It. There is no way to learn or to teach It. It is different from the known, Beyond the unknown. In this all the ancient masters agree.~Upanishads If we really want to define spirit, the best definition is pure intelligence. ~Hazrat Inayat Khan I hear it in the deep heart’s core. ~William Butler Yeats Consciousness expresses itself through form. Your form is a vehicle for the expression of your consciousness. ~Steven Sadleir Consciousness is all there is, and whatever appears or happens is merely a movement of consciousness. ~Ramesh Balsekar If you can see it, hear it, feel it, taste it, touch it, or smell it, you can be present with it. It is of the present moment, and so it brings to you the opportunity to be present with it. ~Leonard Jacob When morning lights the mountain range, I greet you there too, all- brightening. Then, as the sky grows round above me, all-heart-expanding, it is You I inhale. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Give up the search for something to happen and fall in love, fall intimately in love with the gift of presence in ‘what is.’ ~Tony Parsons There is something of the divine mystery in everything that exists. We can see it sparkle in a sunflower or a poppy. We sense more of the unfathomable mystery in a butterfly that flutters from a twig—or in a goldfish swimming in a bowl. But we are closest to God in our own soul. Only there can we become one with the greatest mystery of life. In truth, at very rare moments we can experience that we ourselves are that divine mystery. ~ Jostein Gaarder you can hear it when it doesn’t even move you can hear it when the wind forces itself past rocks ~Ikkyū Sōjun For the breath of life is in the sunlight and the hand of life is in the wind. ~Khalil Gibran How to sustain the miracle of Being, that like a muted bell, or like some ocean-breathing shell, quivers, intense and still? ~Babette Deutsch Life is this simple: we are living in a world that is absolutely transparent and the divine is shining through it all the time. This is not just a nice story or a fable, it is true. ~Thomas Merton There’s no stone, no flower, not a single piece of straw lacking your existence. ~Muhammad Shirin Maghribi You do not have to wait for wisdom to befall you in order to know what move to make now. The wisdom, the insight, the answer you have been waiting for is waiting for you. It is already inside of you. ~Neale Donald Walsch The presence that pervades the universe is imperishable, unchanging—beyond both is and is not: how could it ever vanish? ~Bhagavad Gita If you have your attention on what is, see its fullness in every moment, you will discover the dance of the divine in every leaf, in every petal, in every blade of grass, in every rainbow, in every rushing stream, in every breath of every living being. …[For] beyond memory and judgement lies the ocean of universal consciousness. ~Deepak Chopra Inside everything where nothing else is: He is there: the god. ~In Teotl, Nahuatl Shaman You say that you are just a body, but inside of you is something greater than the universe. ~Iman Shafi The more awake you are, the less there is of you here. At the very deepest level of Presence, you have disappeared and only God is. ~Leonard Jacobson There is in the body a current of energy, affection and intelligence, which guides, maintains and energizes the body. Discover that current and stay with it. ~Nisargadatta Maharaj I am Presence; not I am present or you are present or he is present. When one sees the situation as it really is, that no individual is involved, that what is present is Presence as a whole, then the moment this is perceived there is liberation. ~Nisargadatta Maharaj Behind every atom of this world hides an infinite universe. ~Rumi In this very breath that we take now lies the Secret that all great teachers try to tell us. ~Peter Mathiessen Being the knowing creates a clear space of loving presence that allows all things and all people to be as they are. ~Eckhart Tolle Way down underneath all the busyness, something waits for us to come home to who we truly are. ~Macrina Wiederkehr You don’t have to strive for it. You only have to connect. Sit and feel the Presence, be part of the Divine. Then nothing in the world can tire you. ~Sri Sri Ravi Shankar There is a presence, a silence, a stillness which is here by itself. There is no doer of it, no creator of this stillness. It is simply here in you, with you. It is the fragrance of your own self. There is nothing to do about this, it is naturally present. This fragrance of peace, this spaciousness, it is the fragrance of your own being. ~Mooji When we see that the seeker is the sought, there’s a giving up of all striving to become… and what remains is a current of love, of presence. ~Jean Klein There is in the body a current of energy, affection and intelligence, which guides, maintains and energizes the body. Discover that current and stay with it. ~Nisargadatta Maharaj I am Presence; not I am present or you are present or he is present. When one sees the situation as it really is, that no individual is involved, that what is present is Presence as a whole, then the moment this is perceived there is liberation. ~Nisargadatta Maharaj Behind every atom of this world hides an infinite universe. ~Rumi In this very breath that we take now lies the Secret that all great teachers try to tell us. ~Peter Mathiessen Being the knowing creates a clear space of loving presence that allows all things and all people to be as they are. ~Eckhart Tolle Way down underneath all the busyness, something waits for us to come home to who we truly are. ~Macrina Wiederkehr You don’t have to strive for it. You only have to connect. Sit and feel the Presence, be part of the Divine. Then nothing in the world can tire you. ~Sri Sri Ravi Shankar There is a presence, a silence, a stillness which is here by itself. There is no doer of it, no creator of this stillness. It is simply here in you, with you. It is the fragrance of your own self. There is nothing to do about this, it is naturally present. This fragrance of peace, this spaciousness, it is the fragrance of your own being. ~Mooji When we see that the seeker is the sought, there’s a giving up of all striving to become… and what remains is a current of love, of presence. ~Jean Klein The quieter we are, the more patient and open we are in our sadnesses, the more deeply and serenely the new presence can enter us, and the more we can make it our own, the more it becomes our fate. ~Rainer Maria Rilke