A Quote by Rajneesh

Your absence is the presence of godliness.

Rajneesh

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Rajneesh
Indian - Priest
December 11, 1931 - January 19, 1990

What exists is a godly existence, a divine existence. God not as a person but as a presence certainly exists. But to understand that presence, you have to understand your own inner presence first, because it is from there that you can take off, it is from there that you can have the first glimpse of what godliness is. If you have not known yourself you will never know God.

Rajneesh

Darkness is the absence of light. Happiness is the absence of pain. Anger is the absence of joy. Jealousy is the absence of confidence. Love is the absence of doubt. Hate is the absence of peace. Fear is the absence of faith. Life is the absence of death.

Jess Bowen

God is not a person at all. You cannot worship God. You can live in a godly way but you cannot worship God - there is nobody to worship. All your worship is sheer stupidity, all your images of God are your own creation. There is no God as such, but there is godliness, certainly - in the flowers, in the birds, in the stars, in the eyes of the people, when a song arises in the heart and poetry surrounds you... all this is God. Let us say `godliness` rather than using the word `God` - that word gives you the idea of a person, and God is not a person but a presence.

Rajneesh

When a person disappears, everything becomes impregnated with that person's presence. Every single object as well as every space becomes a reminder of absence, as if absence were more important than presence.

Doris Salcedo

It is exceedingly difficult to maintain a sense of absence without turning that absence into some kind of presence

Mark Epstein

The only consolation I can find in your immediate presence is your ultimate absence.

Shelagh Delaney

Your presence in this house is almost as painful and enormous as your absence.

Donald Hall

Your absence of mind we have borne, till your presence of body came to be called in question by it.

Charles Lamb

You are my angel and my damnation; in your presence I reach divine ecstasy and in your absence I descent to hell.

Isabel Allende

When you hear that your neighbor or friend has reproached you in your absence or presence, then show love and praise him.

John Climacus

Your absence weighs more than someone else’s presence

Jeffrey McDaniel

There is By my leaning over the precipice Of your presence and your absence in hopeless fusion My finding the secret Of loving you Always for the first time

Andre Breton

What can be seen on earth points to neither the total absence nor the obvious presence of divinity, but to the presence of a hidden God. Everything bears this mark.

Blaise Pascal

Every painted image of something is also about the absence of the real thing. All painting is about the presence of absence.

John Berger

Play is an expression of God's presence in the world; one clear sign of God's absence in society is the absence of playfulness and laughter.

Mike Yaconelli

The key to the many is often the one; it is how you regard and talk about the one in that one's absence or presence that communicates to the many how you would regard and talk about them in their presence or absence.

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