If the present is really all we have, then the present lasts forever.
Not everything is understood the way it is presented and not everyone presents the way it is understood.
GERTRUDE Gertrude Appleman, 1901-1976 God is all-knowing, all-present, and almighty. --A Catechism of Christian Doctrine I wish that all the people who peddle God could watch my mother die: could see the skin and gristle weighing only seventy-nine, e...
Presence is the capacity to be present for another person with an open heart and to be grounded in our inner being. It is to be present for another person as a supporting light, as a supporting presence – and simply to be present with another perso...
You cannot do what's important now for you if your mind cannot accept what is happening in this present moment.
To lose yourself: a voluptuous surrender, lost in your arms, lost to the world, utterly immersed in what is present so that its surroundings fade away. In Benjamin’s terms, to be lost is to be fully present, and to be fully present is to be capable...
What you present as the gospel will determine what you present as discipleship. If you present as the gospel what is essentially a theory of the atonement, and you say, 'If you accept this theory of the atonement, your sins are forgiven, and when you...
Men see only the present; heaven sees the future.
There is nowhere to arrive except the present moment.
The present was perfect and I was going to stay in it for as long as possible.
I take complete and sole responsibility for my present situation.
Use the energy that fear creates to focus the mind more intently on the present moment - where fear doesn't exist.
My future is in my past and my past is my present. I must now make the present my future.
If there's not love present, it's much, much harder to function. When there's love present, it's easier to deal with life.
The past doesn't EXIST. Neither is the future, so be present in the present. Just BE!
History is about the past. Yet it exists only in the present – the moment of its creation as history provides us with a narrative constructed after the events with which it is concerned. The narrative must then relate to the moment of its creation ...
We make big promises to avoid little presents.
A story is only half told if there is only one side presented.
New research into cognitive functioning—how the brain works—proves that bullet points are the least effective way to deliver important information. Neuroscientists are finding that what passes as a typical presentation is usually the worst way to...
The answer is, who you are cannot be defined through thinking or mental labels or definitions, because it's beyond that. It is the very sense of being, or presence, that is there when you become conscious of the present moment. In essence, you and wh...
Once I thought it delightful and astonishing to find a present so big that it only went halfway into the stocking. Now I am delighted and astonished every morning to find a present so big that it takes two stockings to hold it, and then leaves a grea...
