Being Present

God dwells with us. He is always at home within us. But alas, most of the time we are not home.
--M. Basil Pennington, OCSO, The Way Back Home

In order to pray, you have to stop being "too elsewhere" and to be
there. ... You have to care enough so that you will collect yourself,
move back into your own soul from the distant suburbs where much of
life tends to be spent, and honestly be there.
-- Douglas V. Steere, Dimensions of Prayer