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“...to be lost is to be fully present, and to be fully present is to be capable of being in uncertainty and mystery. And one does not get lost but loses oneself, with the implication that it is a conscious choice, a chosen surrender...”
― Rebecca Solnit, A Field Guide to Getting Lost

“If I were in his(Prophet Muhammad) presence, I would wash his feet.”
― Hercules

“Wherever you are, be there. If you can be fully present now, you’ll know what it means to live.”
― Steve Goodier

“Sin and grace, absence and presence, tragedy and comedy, they divide the world between them and where they meet head on, the Gospel happens.”
― Frederick Buechner, Telling the Truth: The Gospel as Tragedy, Comedy, and Fairy Tale

“Don’t live in the past �� you’ve already been there. And don’t live in the future, either. Tomorrow will be here soon enough. Live in this moment now �� it is sacred and unrepeatable. This moment alone holds valuable gifts that should not be missed.”
― Steve Goodier

“I honestly didn't believe I could bear any more suffering. I was convinced that the child within me was just too young to endure all this, much less understand it. She just wanted to be normal. But another part of me knew that to become normal, all the pieces of this puzzle had to become conscious.
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― Suzie Burke, Wholeness: My Healing Journey from Ritual Abuse

“A Dickens character to me is a theatrical projection of a character. Not that it isn't real. It's real, but in that removed sense. But Sherlock Holmes is simply there. I would be astonished if I went to 221 1/2 B Baker Street and didn't find him."

[An Invitation to Learning, January 1942]”
― Rex Stout

“Can you allow yourself to be impaled on the present moment?”
― T. Scott McLeod, All That Is Unspoken

“Be like the sun. Not only does it shine through the day but also makes its presence felt at night by allowing the moon to reflect its light.”
― Chirag Tulsiani

“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, Presence - Working from Within. The Psychology of Being

“Spontaneity in the therapeutic work arises when the therapist can allow creative and authentic impulses to arise from moment to moment from the inner being, from the meditative quality within, from the inner emptiness, from the capacity to surrender to life. Then the therapist becomes less of a technician and more of an artist in the therapeutic work. It is then when the therapist and client meets in awareness without any barrier between.”
― Swami Dhyan Giten, Presence - Working from Within. The Psychology of Being

“When we pray, instead of trying to produce love in our souls toward God, we should be basking in God's love for us. How foolish to stay indoors in the cold, dark little room off the self, trying to turn on the light and turn up the heat, when we can just go outside into God's glorious Sonlight and receive his rays! How silly to fuss with artificial tanning salons and lotions and lights when the Son is out!”
― Peter Kreeft, Prayer for Beginners

“Our ultimate goal is to be fully present for life. It takes practice”
― Janet Gallagher Nestor

“In the therapeutic process based on awareness, there exists no ”I" �� it just exists a presence, a light, a love and a silence.”
― Swami Dhyan Giten, Presence - Working from Within. The Psychology of Being

“In situations where I feel unclear or I do not know what to say or do, I turn my attention within myself. Then I listen to what my intuition and to what Existence within myself wants in this moment. Through listening within in this way, an answer often comes in the form of a creative and authentic impulse to say or do something or simply being silent until Existence is ready to respond.”
― Swami Dhyan Giten, Presence - Working from Within. The Psychology of Being

“I had a sense of your presence constantly.”
― Michael Kelahan, The World's Greatest Love Letters

“The future belongs to the one most fully alive in the present.”
― Paul Palnik, Eternaloons: The Palnik Anthology

“He understands the texture and meaning of the visible universe, and 'sees into the life of things,' not by the help of mechanical instruments, but of the improved exercise of his faculties, and an intimate sympathy with Nature. The meanest thing is not lost upon him, for he looks at it with an eye to itself, not merely to his own vanity or interest, or the opinion of the world. Even where there is neither beauty nor use—if that ever were—still there is truth, and a sufficient source of gratification in the indulgence of curiosity and activity of mind. The humblest printer is a true scholar; and the best of scholars - the scholar of Nature.”
― William Hazlitt, Table-Talk, Essays on Men and Manners

“A man's life is his whole life, not the last glimmering snuff of the candle; and this, I say, is considerable, and not a little matter, whether we regard its pleasures or its pains. To draw a peevish conclusion to the contrary from our own superannuated desires or forgetful indifference is about as reasonable as to say, a man never was young because he has grown old, or never lived because he is now dead. The length or agreeableness of a journey does not depend on the few last steps of it, nor is the size of a building to be judged of from the last stone that is added to it. It is neither the first nor last hour of our existence, but the space that parts these two - not our exit nor our entrance upon the stage, but what we do, feel, and think while there - that we are to attend to in pronouncing sentence upon it.”
― William Hazlitt, Table-Talk, Essays on Men and Manners

“Denial returned, like a nagging cough you can never quite shake. Actually, it was always close at hand, and even though "satanic ritual abuse" did describe what had happened to me when I was a child. the concept was so foreign and so horrific that some part of me still wanted to stay in denial.
Devil worship dominated my childhood. That was undeniable, even if it was still nearly impossible to contemplate. Both of my parents and any number of their friends, as well as "respected" members of our community, had worshipped Satan.
I pushed the notion aside with all the power I could muster. I kept thinking to myself that it was ridiculous and impossible.
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― Suzie Burke, Wholeness: My Healing Journey from Ritual Abuse

“On its own, my internal dissociated part now came to the surface, and I found myself hiding from everyone. I still was not connecting it to the dream I'd had. At one time I had thought I could control these sudden episodes, but I was apparently mistaken. I had grown very unsure about every facet of my mental health. A disturbed part of me was taking over and I was terrified. I began to wonder if Big Suzie would completely cease to exist.”
― Suzie Burke, Wholeness: My Healing Journey from Ritual Abuse

“Presence is not a question of judging or evaluating a client or a client’s situation. Presence is to see the client’s situation in a positive and creative light with a vision for how the present situation of the client relates to his further spiritual development. It is to accept a person as he is. It is to understand that the person is exactly where he needs to be in order to take the next step in his spiritual development. It is not about fighting with problems, darkness, drama and defences on the personality level, it is about becoming aware. It is about lighting the light in the inner being of another person.”
― Swami Dhyan Giten, Presence - Working from Within. The Psychology of Being

“Presence is about how every action can arise from the quality, which we call awareness �� the presence of our inner being, the presence of our soul.
It is a large difference between working with people from the inner being and working with people from duty or a specific technique. Through working from the inner being, we can touch the soul of the other person, while we can only touch the personality of the other person, his surface and periphery, if we just work from a technique.”
― Swami Dhyan Giten, Presence - Working from Within. The Psychology of Being

“My plate is full; I dig that. And I can't be everywhere all the time, but my mind, heart and spirit has no bounds.”
― T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence

“Maybe journey is not so much a journey ahead, or a journey into space, but a journey into presence.”
― Nelle Morton, The journey is home

“Emptiness and the not-“I�� is the quality that arises when the therapist consciously moves out of his own way without hindering the therapeutic process through his own ideas, attitudes, expectations and concepts. He is present, available and responds with the truth in the moment.”
― Swami Dhyan Giten, Presence - Working from Within. The Psychology of Being

“Smiling for no reason at all is the reason i'm smiling”
― Luke Kennedy

“Practicing the Presence of God is bringing our “heart�� �� body, soul, and mind �� to God, to be in His Presence �� to love Him, to worship Him, to lay our troubles and triumphs with Him, to rest in Him. What a glorious idea��.but few of us ever find that rest!”
― David Paul Kikrpatrick

“This new co-consciousness brought me to a state of awareness in which my core personality was directly able to experience "her" personality. Being co-conscious with her, he explained, would stop me from experiencing the feeling of leaving my body or dissociating.”
― Suzie Burke, Wholeness: My Healing Journey from Ritual Abuse

“Should you operate upon your clients as objects, you risk reducing them to less than human. Following the culture of appropriation and mastery your clients become a kind of extension of yourself, of your ego. In the appropriation and objectification mode, your clients�� well-being and success in treatment reflect well upon you. You “did�� something to them, you made them well. You acted upon them and can take the credit for successful therapy or treatment. Conversely, if your clients flounder or regress, that reflects poorly on you. On this side of things the culture of appropriation and mastery says that you are not doing enough. You are not exerting enough influence, technique or therapeutic force. What anxiety this can breed for some clinicians!



DBT offers a framework and tools for a treatment that allows clients to retain their full humanity. Through the practice of mindfulness, you can learn to cultivate a fuller presence to the moments of your life, and even with your clients and your work with them. This presence potentiates an encounter between two irreducible human beings, meeting professionally, of course, and meeting humanly. The dialectical framework, which embraces contradictions and gives you a way of seeing that life is pregnant with creative tensions, allows for your discovery of your limits and possibilities, gives you a way of seeing the dynamic nature of reality that is anything but sitting still; shows you that your identity grows from relationship with others, including those you help, that you are an irreducible human being encountering other irreducible human beings who exert influence upon you, even as you exert your own upon them. Even without clinical contrivance.”
― Scott E. Spradlin