“We cannot attain the presence of God. We're already totally in the presence of God. What's missing is awareness.”

“The search for God's presence was much of a mystery as God himself, and what was God if not a mystery?”

“There is a presence in what is missing.” That presence is our own.”

“The goal of prayer is to live all of my life and speak all of my words in the joyful awareness of the presence of God.Prayer becomes real when we grasp the reality and goodness of God's constant presence with 'the real me.' Jesus lived his everyday life in conscious awareness of his Father.”

“The practice of giving thanks...eucharisteo...this is the way we practice the presence of God, stay present to His presence, and it is always a practice of the eyes. We don't have to change what we see. Only the way we see.”

“It is not objective proof of God's existence that we want but, whether we use religious language for it or not, the experience of God's presence.”