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“What world is this I now inhabit, and how shall I live in it?”
― Kate DiCamillo, The Beatryce Prophecy

“Some things are little on the outside, and rough and common, but I remember the time when the dust of the streets were as pleasing as Gold to my infant eyes, and now they are more precious to the eye of reason.”
― Thomas Traherne, Centuries of Meditations

“Do not wait for a change of environment before you act; get a change of environment by action. You can so act upon the environment in which you are now as to cause yourself to be transferred to a better environment. Hold with faith and purpose the vision of yourself in the better environment, but act upon your present environment with all your heart, and with all your strength, and with all your mind.”
― Wallace D. Wattles

“It’s the job of the soul to stretch out across the body of the desert and touch, without skin or fingers or nerves, the hidden creek that wets our knowledge of who we are. Who we are before and after. Who we are when we’re alone and a goddess looks into our eyes, looks into our dreams and says, yes. I see you clearly.”
― Laurie Perez, Virga in Death Valley

“There are two ways to reach me: by way of kisses or by way of the imagination. But there is a hierarchy: the kisses alone don’t work.”
― Anaïs Nin, Henry and June: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1931-1932

“She was attuned to the presence of his body in a microscopic way.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“The 'working mind' acts without a motive from the past or an expected future outcome (without doership). The 'working mind' is the natural flow of pure consciousness.”
― Siddharth Tripathi, unMind: A Graphic Guide to Self-Realization

“This state of complete awareness that Mindfulness puts you in won’t let you escape or choose something bad or unwise because you will be conscious of the choices you are making, and you will want to make the best ones. But, if you don’t, that means you weren’t letting Mindfulness do what it does so well—keep you present with total awareness.”
― Ora Nadrich, Mindfulness and Mysticism: Connecting Present Moment Awareness with Higher States of Consciousness

“Do not give your creative impulse to Original Substance, and then sit down and wait for results; if you do, you will never get them. Act now. There is never any time but now, and there never will be any time but now. If you are ever to begin to make ready for the reception of what you want, you must begin now.”
― Wallace D. Wattles

“Life is about living, and for that, we need to be here, nowâ€�100% in it—not immersed in anxiety, negative self-talk, fantasy, or lost in endless thought. Life happens here, not there. When we are here, now, we become connected. Embodied in the fullness of our beings, we create space, let go of what does not matter, and get clarity and alignment. We do less multitasking, more discernment—less busyness, more presence. Here, now, we feel what we feel, cut the bullshit, deal with whatever arises, and live.”
― Aline Ra M, Bullshit-Free Mindfulness: An Uncommon Guide for Joy in Everyday Life

“We live thinking that we are scared of dying and avoiding it at all costs. Still, we try to escape from the present moment. This shows that what we are actually afraid of is living and failing at it.”
― Aline Ra M, Bullshit-Free Mindfulness: An Uncommon Guide for Joy in Everyday Life

“Mindfulness helps us, and we need it. We must not be so arrogant to think we can stay present and alert in every moment. We can’t.”
― Ora Nadrich, Mindfulness and Mysticism: Connecting Present Moment Awareness with Higher States of Consciousness

“Cultivating the power of presence comes from creating the space to observe one’s mind and one’s self.”
― Dee Waldeck

“the Divine is ever present before us and that evil need hold no sway over the life of humanity, for truth as light is ever before us. Even on the darkest night of our soul we know we are not alone.”
― L.B. Ó Ceallaigh, The Book of Common Prayer: Ecclesia Seclorum

“This is another way of saying that “nowâ€� is nothing but a gathering place where the past, present, and future congeal, fester, and proliferate. To be a seer is to know that these three time-persons are a single Holy Trinity. The Holy comes not from a singular time-body, but from all three: Squatting in the gathering place. Breaking bread. Laughing.”
― Sondra Charbadze, The Sea Once Swallowed Me: A Memoir of Love, Solitude, and the Limits of Language

“Bertie is the soul of the desert. Her body’s Navajo brown inside the dawn of civilization. Her heart, the rumble of wind across dark boulders, across the ocean of dry soil. He holds her now inside his small, growing frame.”
― Laurie Perez, Virga in Death Valley

“Being with the Divine may be less like taking a class and more like taking a break. It is certainly learning to be still and go within without any intentions or expectations. It’s not an emotional high that fades away, it is something I experience that was already a part of me. It’s less like taking a trip and more like coming home. Being with the Divine in me is loving in its truest sense. I feel the compassion, mercy and grace deeply—it changes me from within. Being where I am means being where God already is. Being who I am is recognizing that I already possess this love and I become what I have always been—a unique imprint of the Divine.”
― Karl Forehand, Being: A Journey Toward Presence and Authenticity

“Your genuine presence is a sensual skill you develop and cultivate over time.”
― Lebo Grand

“This,â€� The Actor turns to indicate me, one arm casually wrapped around his good friend’s shoulder, “is the secret weapon I was telling you about. Amie Martine.â€�

“Amie,� he takes my hand, “you look surprised.�

“I’m sorry,� my smile’s so nonstop, it’s mechanically difficult to speak, “I guess, when he said ‘producer,� I—�

“—didn’t picture me?�

“I’m guilty. Of thinking of you as an actor first.�

“Me, too.� His smile antes mine, then wins the bet. “I’m always an actor at heart. That’s who I am. You got it absolutely right.�

Compelling dark brown eyes with hints of golden amber. His body conducts such radiance, I’m sure the circuits in this room have all been blown by the solar flares in his present emanation.”
― Laurie Perez, The Look of Amie Martine

“Padre Huerta is so present when you ask him a question, you feel as if you've stepped inside of him to hear his response. He leans closer to me and takes my hand in his. I don't mind it. His hands are warm and soft, slightly fat. He doesn't squeeze, but just holds me steady. I'm being so careful not to look in the direction of the coffin on the other side of the room. When he touches me, I sense he knows that.”
― Laurie Perez, Torpor: Though the Heart Is Warm

“The present moment is as old as existence â€� and as long as eternity.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Your twenties are not your prime, they're your primer.”
― Jenni Johnson

“Be present with your pain, and be willing to feel it, really feel it. Yes, it can be very uncomfortable, but if you quickly try to numb yourself from it, then you are choosing to be in the moment half-asleep, and what kind of way is that to go through life?”
― Ora Nadrich, Mindfulness and Mysticism: Connecting Present Moment Awareness with Higher States of Consciousness

“At the back door she lifted her jacket from its hook and left the house. The air smelled good and she breathed it in deeply. The Creator, after all, gave us the magic of crickets singing in the darkness, soft nights and sighing trees, universal skies with their messages of stars.”
― Martha Brooks, True Confessions of a Heartless Girl

“Do you know what lives in the present moment? Joy. It’s not in the past, not in the future, not in endless "have to, should do, must do", and not in daydreaming. Joy is here, now.”
― Aline Ra M, Bullshit-Free Mindfulness: An Uncommon Guide for Joy in Everyday Life

“Life wants to live and life feeds on life. And yet, we keep trying to escape the present moment.”
― Aline Ra M

“Some say the point of meditation is to get an empty mind and to not think about anything. I'd say that is pretty much impossible and sounds like an attempt to replace the escapism of not being present with another one: getting rid of thinking and feeling. For me, personally, meditation has been a powerful training in not escaping from the present moment.”
― Aline Ra M, Bullshit-Free Mindfulness: An Uncommon Guide for Joy in Everyday Life

“Meditation is a tool of purification of the mind, as it empties us from what is not important, and connects us to the essence of being. In this way, we are training ourselves to penetrate life in its deepest sense.”
― Aline Ra M, Bullshit-Free Mindfulness: An Uncommon Guide for Joy in Everyday Life

“The three of them and the five of us, we are as weather is upon the planet. I breathe them and they breathe me. Clouds and breezes, lightning strikes and claps of thunder, we are the land, the air, the motion of existence, confirmed by sound and light and change.”
― Laurie Perez, The Cosmos of Amie Martine

“God’s distance from you is a perception caused by the foolishness of your actions and not by the reality of His presence.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough