When Presence Isn't Enough

When Presence Isn’t Enough reflects on moments when simple awareness no longer feels sufficient. It speaks to those times when calm is present, yet something deeper remains unresolved - a quiet sense that there is more beneath the surface of experience.

Rather than offering solutions, techniques, or guidance, this book turns attention toward a deeper recognition. It explores the space in which presence itself comes into view - a more intimate, living awareness that remains when effort, understanding, and calm fall away.

Gently, it reveals how presence can become familiar without fully touching the deeper layers of conditioning, identity, and emotional residue. It points to a subtler clarity that does not arise through effort or practice, but through noticing what has quietly been overlooked.

The book explores how awareness, stillness, and movement are known through lived experience, not as ideas to adopt or resolve. Presence is seen not as an endpoint, but as something that appears within a deeper, intimate Space - one that is understanding, inclusive, and quietly alive.

Written for readers who understand presence, this book speaks to those who sense that calm alone does not fully answer the deeper questions of being. It does not ask for change, improvement, or becoming something new.

It simply points to what remains when nothing more needs to happen.

girl reading spiritual awakening book with blanket and cookies
girl reading spiritual awakening book with blanket and cookies

Calm Isn't Clarity

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Rosemarie Quay Publishing

You may also be drawn to Living in Presence, a book that reflects on awareness as it is lived and experienced in daily life.

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What People Are Saying

Your book, Hidden Emotional Blocks, put words to the quiet ache I’ve carried and felt for years. I didn’t realize how much of my inner struggle came from misunderstanding my own reactions and trying to ‘fix’ myself. Every chapter felt like someone gently turning a light on inside me. This book beautifully addresses my questions. Highly recommend!

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I’ve read countless spiritual books, but this is the first one that cut through the noise and helped me understand why I kept getting stuck. The explanations about emotional triggers, overthinking, and the chase for answers were eye-opening. It showed me that nothing was wrong with me, I was just misreading the signals. I feel more grounded, more aware, and more myself than I have in years.,

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