Presence and it's practice as prescribed in centering prayer is not defined by but involves the dis-identification with thought (and absence of thought) and is a consent of the will to the will of God. The will of God is to love what is- hence there involves an awareness and attentiveness to what is but not as things in their particularity (ie the noise of a distant seagull or hum of a car or feel of the chair etc) and not as the concept of a common ground of being (as Eckhart Tolle being aware of the space or silence behind/beneath all things) but in the simplicity of mutual connectedness itself. The relating itself is the common ground ... Kenosis and connectedness as movements and means are the things themselves ... Or relational kenosis. Relationship not as a thing in itself but as a movement - relat-ing ...