Discover the most popular and inspiring quotes and sayings on the topic of Presence. Share them with your friends on social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, or your personal blogs, and let the world be inspired by their powerful messages. Here are the Top 100 Presence Quotes And Sayings by 83 Authors including Siri Hustvedt,Darrell Calkins,Sharon Butala,Pope Paul Vi,Idries Shah for you to enjoy and share.
Very simply, for the mind, absence can be a catalyst for presence. -- Siri Hustvedt
If you don't practice presence, you never learn how to have busyness facilitate accomplishment. -- Darrell Calkins
I began to see, in the place of emptiness, presence. I began to see not only the visible landscape but the invisible one, a landscape in which history, unrecorded and unremembered as it is, had transmuted itself into an always present spiritual dimension. -- Sharon Butala
It is called the real presence, not in an exclusive sense, as though other forms of presence were not real, but by reason of its excellence. It is the substantial presence by which Christ is made present without doubt, whole and entire, God and man. -- Pope Paul Vi
A certain person may have, as you say, a wonderful presence; I do not know. What I do know is that he has a perfectly delightful absence. -- Idries Shah
Presence always wins out over principles. -- Bill Johnson
When we are authentic, when we act out of presence and awareness, it also gives nourishment to the inner being of people around us. -- Swami Dhyan Giten
feeling Presence has less emotions but more excitement in comparison of Love. -- Unknown
Actually, the ability to choose presence depends on the degree of presence that's emerging in you. Ultimately, you are not choosing, there's nobody there to choose. When you think you are choosing, presence is simply emerging in that moment. -- Eckhart Tolle
You are the light of Presence, the awareness that is prior to and deeper than any thoughts and emotions. -- Eckhart Tolle
The other person's presence ultimately is the same as your presence, because it is in presence that there is true meeting. -- Eckhart Tolle
In you, as in each human being, there is a dimension of consciousness far deeper than thought. It is the very essence of who you are. We may call it presence, awareness, the unconditioned consciousness. -- Eckhart Tolle
It is strange that an absence can feel like presence. A missing so complete that if it were to go away, I would turn around, stunned, to see that the room is empty after all when before it had something. -- Ally Condie
In theatre, presence is the matrix of power; the postmodern theatre of resistance must therefore both expose the collusion of presence with authority and resist such collusion by refusing to establish itself as the charismatic Other. -- Philip Auslander
We communicate much more through our presence than the words. -- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Presence is like a gap in the flow of history, where all of [a] sudden it is not past and not future. -- Peter Zumthor
We know that an object that is not consciously noticed at the time of a first visit can, by its absence during subsequent visits, provoke an indefinable impression: as a result of this sighting backward in time, the absence of the object becomes a presence one can feel. -- Ivan Chtcheglov
When we think of digitally disconnecting and inviting presence into our lives, we are creating the conditions of integration within and between. -- Alanis Morissette
The Feeling Being -- George Jelinek
There are personalities so powerful that they leave their stamp on any place they inhabit. Their presence is always there, like a spoor, whether or not they themselves are. -- Caroline Llewellyn
You say you felt a presence, but I only sensed an absence. A vague pain without a source. I was like a patient who cannot tell the doctor where it hurts, only that it does. -- Khaled Hosseini
Special people make their presence felt by their absence.. -- Abha Maryada Banerjee
It is exceedingly difficult to maintain a sense of absence without turning that absence into some kind of presence -- Mark Epstein
The master is presence. The world is relativity and relativity has limitations. Presence is unlimited. -- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
The verb "to be" here means to generate your own presence, your real presence. -- Thich Nhat Hanh
The purpose of art is to bring people into presence. -- Jim Carrey
Photography's vaunted capture of a moment in time is the seizure and freezing of presence. It is the image of simultaneity, of the way that everything within a given space at a given moment is present to everything else; it is a declaration of the seamless integrity of the real. -- Rosalind E. Krauss
The event is placed at such a distance, and contained, that these images move beyond the context in which they were made, the geographic setting, and so on, and engage the viewer in a one-to-one relationship solely through their physical presence. -- Jean-Marc Bustamante
Sometimes it takes sadness to know happiness, noise to appreciate silence and absence to value presence. -- Anonymous
Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it. -- Benjamin Franklin
How to use and leverage the presence and power of certain places for accessing
the authentic dimension of self in individuals and in communities,
is one of the most interesting research questions for the years to come. -- Otto Scharmer
Sense your presence, the naked, unveiled, unclothed beingness. It is untouched by young or old, rich or poor, good or bad, or any other attributes. -- Eckhart Tolle
When we hear some beautiful piece of Mozart or admire a wonderful building, we suddenly become present in ourselves. That's unusual nowadays because dishevelment and distraction have become an art form. -- John O'donohue
Christ is your God-essence or the Self, as it is sometimes called in the East. The only difference between Christ and presence is that Christ refers to your indwelling divinity regardless of whether you are conscious of it or not, whereas presence means your awakened divinity or God-essence. -- Eckhart Tolle
BEAUTY ARISES IN THE STILLNESS OF YOUR PRESENCE -- Eckhart Tolle
Those who are apparently absent can feel more present than the people right in front of you. -- Sylvia Brownrigg
It is the Divine Presence that gives value to life. This Presence is the source of all peace, all joy, all security. Find this Presence in yourself and all your difficulties will disappear. -- Mirra Alfassa
There's a reason they call God a presence-because God is right here, right now. -- Elizabeth Gilbert
If you are in a state of intense presence you are free of thought, yet
highly alert. If your conscious attention sinks below a certain level, thought rushes in, the mental noise returns, stillness is lost, you're back in time. -- Eckhart Tolle
The presence of the present has become insistent, undeniable, and I dare not look away. -- Wendell Berry
Time, presence and physical attentiveness are our most basic proxies for something ultimately unprovable: that we are understood. -- Tom Chatfield
People also leave presence in a place even when they are no longer there. -- Andy Goldsworthy
Being present is being connected to All Things. -- S. Kelley Harrell
To feel the joy of presence, do not try to express or impress. -- Debasish Mridha
When you wash your hands, when you make a cup of coffee, when you're waiting for the elevator - instead of indulging in thinking, these are all opportunities for being there as a still, alert presence. -- Eckhart Tolle
Corporeal reality is much more rich and precious than we realize. It feels good to have a body, to surge on currents of emotion, to have nerve endings, mitochondria in our cells, tangible focused energy, the embodiment of light - given a voice. -- Laurie Perez
The empirical usability of the sacred ceremonial words makes both the speaker and listener believe in their corporeal presence. -- Theodor Adorno
Human presence is a creative and turbulent sacrament, a visible sign of invisible grace. -- John O'donohue
When the presence is like thunderstorm , the absence prevail deep dark silence. -- Upasana Banerjee
And it is strange that absence can feel like presence. -- Ally Condie
The reality of the moment is so palpable and powerful that it holds imagination in a tight orbit from which it never fully escapes. -- Daniel M. Gilbert
Your presence is the most precious gift you can give to another human being. -- Marshall B. Rosenberg
The most powerful presence in the room is his absence. -- Claudia Gray
stillness, the ruler of movement. -- Lao-Tzu
In fact, the collective energy field of presence can be very helpful when people come together. It can give you an enormous boost. -- Eckhart Tolle
The moment you are there You know but the moment cannot be explained for it is beyond language and expression. It is a moment of silence, joy, bliss, void, crying, dancing but nothing confirms to normal. -- Maitreya Rudrabhayananda
When people are in their Element, they connect with something fundamental to their sense of identity, purpose, and well-being. -- Ken Robinson
We expect God's presence to be thunderous, spectacular, monumental; but it is our need that is so large. The real presence slips past our demands for spectacle. It slips past our despair. -- Tim Farrington
Feel my presence. Recognise my soul. Love my heart. -- Truth Devour
Sufficient unto the moment is the appearance of reality. -- D.h. Lawrence
We're a feeling, an awareness encased here -- Carlos Castaneda
As our various electronic devices gain more and more sensory awareness, we open up the potential for entirely new forms of interaction. Not just new interfaces - tapping and shaking and whatnot - but a shift in presence. -- Jamais Cascio
Once you have had a glimpse of awareness or Presence, you know it firsthand. It is no longer just a concept in your mind. -- Eckhart Tolle
When you are truly present, you illuminate everything around you. -- Leonard Jacobson
The seconds of presence are where most inspiration comes. There are sunsets that promote it. -- Russell Simmons
I have felt a presence that disturbs me with the joy of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime of something far more deeply interfused, whose dwelling is the light of setting suns, and the round ocean, and the living air, and the blue sky, and in the mind of man ... -- William Wordsworth
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. -- John Bradshaw
Funny how an absence can feel like a presence, like that space practically glows with her outline and make me notice how she's not here. -- Joan Steinau Lester
Without moving, you walk through lands you imagine you can see, and your thoughts, weaving in and out of the story, delight in the details or follow the outlines of the adventures. You merge with the character; you think you're the one whose heart is beating so hard within the clothes he's wearing. -- Gustave Flaubert
My presence speaks volumes before I say a word. -- Mos Def
Affect, Imagery, Consciousness, a four-volume work so dense that its readers were evenly divided between those who understood it and thought it was brilliant and those who did not understand it and thought it was brilliant. -- Malcolm Gladwell
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 Jacobson
[H]uman experience is determined as much by the nature of the mind and the structure of its senses as by the external objects whose presence the mind reveals. -- Alan W. Watts
Abundant feeling of your presence in front of Allah is enjoy full solitude state where you are in bodily on earth and souly at somewhere on universe -- M.i.shaikh My Self
To achieve contact with reality is not to transport oneself elsewhere; it is not transcendence but thorough immersion in one's surroundings - a reality which is neither purely physical nor metaphysical, but both at once. -- Antoni Tapies
Standing in this glittering room with the music in the background and the press and hum of scores of people, the clink of glasses, the faint smells of warmth, champagne, stiff material and sometimes of flowers and perfume, -- Anne Perry
This silence felt not like the absence but the presence of something. I felt seen. It was so quiet it felt loud, like that moment between a breath in and a breath out. The woods' lungs seemed full, as if they were ready at any moment to speak. -- Isaac Oliver
Without absence in our lives, we risk fooling ourselves into believing that things (a message from a lover, the performance of a song, the face of a human body) matter less. De -- Michael Harris
His presence is the only place where invisible weight is lifted. The only place where hidden, broken spaces are mended. The only place where we are defined apart from our successes and our failures. -- Jennie Allen
It is through realizing loving presence as our very essence, through being that presence, that we discover true freedom. -- Tara Brach
There's a resonance inside us, a sense of who we are. We're a multi-bodied traveler. We're an essence. We're a feeling, an awareness that has an ancient existence. -- Frederick Lenz
There are moments of existence when time and space are more profound, and the awareness of existence is immensely heightened. -- Charles Baudelaire
Whenever you interact with people,don't be there primarily as a function or a role,But as a Field of conscious Presence -- Eckhart Tolle
When you become present, your mind is silent. There is no agenda. You are not holding onto anything. You are not seeking anything. You are just here with what is, and it is enough. -- Leonard Jacobson
The memory of an absent being kindles in the darkness of the heart; the more it has disappeared, the more it beams; the gloomy and despairing soul sees this light on its horizon; the star of the inner night. -- Victor Hugo
People who matter in our lives stay with us, haunting our most ordinary moments. They're with us in the grocery store, as we turn a corner, chat with a friend. They rise up through the pavement; we absorb them through our soles. -- Christina Baker Kline
The truth within moves as intimacy of being. -- John De Ruiter
Being present means being completely aware of all that is. It means you're not in denial, you're not pretending, and you're not avoiding. -- Debbie Ford
A streak of presence surrounded by a dim glow of absence. -- John Crowley
Being present means just that. Feeling your feelings as they come up. Experiencing your sensations as they occur. -- Callisto Media
There's a great space in which this moment takes place. There's a great silence that is listening to the thoughts. -- Adyashanti
The suddenness of it all. And the permanence. The lonely reality of the truth. -- Kami Garcia
In presence, there is no right or wrong, because there is no duality. There is no judgment. -- Leonard Jacobson
The world we experience with our unaided senses is fluid and animate, shifting and transforming in response to our own shifts of position and of mood. -- David Abram
Stillness offers an experience of being and a recognition that being ... my essence ... is a part of all Being, all Essence. -- Nancy J. Napier
I am the presence standing here at this juncture of Time & Space- who else? -- Joyce Carol Oates
When awareness embraces the senses, it enlivens them. -- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Through mastering the means of perception, the promise of who you are in physical form is opened with an increasing opportunity for fulfilment. -- Georgi Y. Johnson
The real essence of your distinctive footprints may least be felt in your presence and much more in your absence -- Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Yet Clare's love was doubtless ethereal to a fault, imaginative to impracticability. With these natures, corporeal presence is sometimes less appealing than corporeal absence; the latter creating an ideal presence that conveniently drops the defects of the real. -- Thomas Hardy
