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“John O’Donohue, “Where there is a depth of awareness, there is a reverence for presence. Where consciousness is dulled, distant, or blind, presence grows faint and vanishes.”
― Presence and Encounter: The Sacramental Possibilities of Everyday Life
― Presence and Encounter: The Sacramental Possibilities of Everyday Life
“It is releasing distractions, preoccupations, and prejudgments and being available for absorption.”
― Presence and Encounter: The Sacramental Possibilities of Everyday Life
― Presence and Encounter: The Sacramental Possibilities of Everyday Life
“Radically ordinary hospitality characterizes those who don’t fuss over different worldviews represented at the dinner table.”
― The Gospel Comes with a House Key: Practicing Radically Ordinary Hospitality in Our Post-Christian World
― The Gospel Comes with a House Key: Practicing Radically Ordinary Hospitality in Our Post-Christian World
“Let me set them out in propositional form before we reflect on them together. Presence to anything starts with presence to self. Presence to anything is constrained by presence to everything. Presence to anything is a threshold to the Transcendent.”
― Presence and Encounter: The Sacramental Possibilities of Everyday Life
― Presence and Encounter: The Sacramental Possibilities of Everyday Life
“Presence to the present moment brings a sense of inner stillness and peace. This comes from releasing pressing inner agendas and the stress of obsessive remembering and anxious anticipation. It represents the fruit of the inner alignment that is yours when you do just one thing at a time and you do it with presence.”
― Presence and Encounter: The Sacramental Possibilities of Everyday Life
― Presence and Encounter: The Sacramental Possibilities of Everyday Life
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