„Be afraid of nothing. Hating none, giving love to all, feeling the love of God, seeing His presence in everyone, and having but one desire – for His constant presence in the temple of your consciousness – that is the way to live in this world.“

— Paramahansa Yogananda

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„Many people of various beliefs and faiths have written about the practice of the presence of God, and all speak of the happiness they receive from being in His presence.“
— Hazrat Inayat Khan
„To look away from the world, or to stare at it, does not help a man to reach God; but he who sees the world in Him stands in His presence.“
— Martin Buber
„When a man becomes steadfast in his abstention from harming others, then all living creatures will cease to feel enmity in his presence“
— Patañjali
„She was feeling the pressure of the world outside and she wanted to see him and feel his presence beside her and be reassured that she was doing the right thing after all.“
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
„There are many for whom the Qualification of Desirelessness is a difficult one, for they feel that they are their desires — that if their distinctive desires, their likings and dislikings, are taken away from them, there will be no self left. But these are only they who have not seen the Master; in the light of His holy Presence all desire dies, but the desire to be like Him.“
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
„God would grant all of us wisdom, calm, and peace, that his presence would be in the operating room, and that his will might be done.“
— Ben Carson
„In solitude, at last, we’re able to let God define us the way we are always supposed to be defined—by relationship: the I-thou relationship, in relation to a Presence that demands nothing of us but presence itself. Not performance but presence“
— Richard Rohr