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Silver Lining Of Your Cloud
Life Quotes and Sayings
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