Mindful Presence Quotes

'Focusing' is no conventional repackaging of self-help wisdom. It is at once a manual and a philosophy. It talks about the body's wisdom, the steps of the focusing technique, how to discover the richness in others by learning to listen.

Try putting your iPhones down every once in a while and look at people's faces.

Few of us ever live in the present. We are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what has gone.

Mindfully practicing authenticity during our most soul-searching struggles is how we invite grace, joy and gratitude into our lives.

Too often we spend our time in the past or the future. We need to learn to live now - mentally as well as physically and spiritually.

It is a mark of soulfulness to be present in the here and now. When we are present, we are not fabricating inner movies. We are seeing what is before us.

If you put your cameras down you might be able to live in the moment. You have a memory there of something you've never lived.

Within each of us there is a silence as vast as the universe. We long for it. We can return to it.

Without silence, there cannot be any real appreciation in life, which is as delicate in its inner fabric as a closed rosebud.

We can make our minds so like still water that beings gather about us that they may see, it may be, their own images, and so live for a moment with a clearer, perhaps even with a fiercer life because of our quiet.

The present moment is the only moment available to us and it is the door to all other moments.

I have come to think that one of the most satisfying experiences I know — and also one of the most growth-promoting experiences for the other person — is just fully to appreciate this individual in the same way that I appreciate a sunset.

Be a calm beholder of what is happening around you.

The false self lives mainly through memory and anticipation. Past and future are its main preoccupation.

The true creativity comes out of sitting silently. When you are so totally quiet that there is no thought, no wave in the ocean of your being, out of this silence comes a different kind of creativity.

Connecting to the feelings in your body brings you back into present-moment awareness.

Presence is not some exotic state that we need to search for or manufacture. In the simplest terms, it is the felt sense of wakefulness, openness, and tenderness that arises when we are fully here and now with our experience.

That is why those who are not capable of being there in the present moment, they don't really live their life - they live like dead people.

By far the most important form of attention we can give our loved ones is listening... True listening is love in action.

When you walk around braced for impact, you're dramatically decreasing your chances. Your chances to avoid the outcome you fear, your chances to make a difference, and your chances to breathe and connect.

Doing nothing is opting for the sweetness of stillness...Instead of fighting with that which you cannot control, you might as well just see it through.

I'm from Kentucky. I used to be very personable and make eye contact and smile at people, and now all I do is look down. When I'm at dinner and one person after another keeps interrupting to take pictures, it's like, "I can't live like this."

When you are in touch with your body and heart, it allows you to then be in the world and act with intention and clarity and kindness.

We live in a society in which it seems that every space, every moment must be 'filled' with initiatives, activity, sound; often there is not even time to listen and dialogue... Let us not be afraid to be silent outside and inside ourselves, so that we are able not only to perceive God's voice, but also the voice of the person next to us, the voices of others.

In the presence of your own loving attention, you create the inner conditions that are necessary to step into the next greatest evolution of yourself.