#presence

There is no good singing, there is only present and absent. ↗

— Jeff Buckley

#music #presence #voice #music

Be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence. ↗

— Minor White

#attention #object #presence #still #until

Your hand opens and closes, opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralysed. Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding, the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated as birds' wings. ↗

— Rumi

#change #growth #presence #the-middle-way #beauty

More than happiness or joy or lower blood pressure, the practice of God’s presence gives us meaning. Through this practice we become more closely aligned with Jesus and we learn His desire for us more completely.Life can be hard. The Practice of The Presence of God makes it easier. As Brother Lawrence said, “There is not in the world a kind of life more sweet and delightful than that of a continual conversation with God. ↗

— David Paul Kirkpatrick

#prayer #life

When we develop the heart chakra, we begin to influence the surroundings with our spiritual presence. When we develop the communication chakra, we begin to influence the country with our spiritual presence. When we develop the seventh chakra, we begin to influence the world with our spiritual presence without doing anything. ↗

— Swami Dhyan Giten

#communcation-chakra #consciousness #heart-chakra #meditation #presence

I live in the faith that there is a Presence and Power greater than I am that nurtures and supports me in ways I could not even imagine. I know that this Presence is All knowing and All Power and is Always right where I am ↗

— Ernest Holmes

#power #presence-of-god #support #faith

Often the presence of mind and energy of a person remote from the spotlight decide the course of history for centuries to come. ↗

— Stefan Zweig

#come #course #decide #energy #history

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#conviction #deep #emotional #forms #god

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best. ↗

— Epictetus

#best #calls #company #forth #keep

I like actors that are good with pantomime and that can transmit a lot by their presence and attitude more than through their dialogue. ↗

— Guillermo del Toro

#dialogue #good #i #like #lot