Quotes About Presence

So what is love? It's an unbuttoning of the self. Not an unbuttoning of the clothing covering your sexy self, but the reassurance that, without any camouflage, cover-ups or compromise, you're safe. You're in the presence of another person who would rather be with you than with anyone else.

The Lord had made no promises that life would be safe and secure. He'd only promised to be with her through it all.

Let us perform all our actions with the thought that God dwells in us. We shall thus be His temples, and He Himself will be our God, dwelling in us (cf. Eph. 15: 3).

Pour les gens qui vous entourent, vous n'êtes jamais là, toujours en retard ou en avance d'une seconde sur leur temps.

Il avait à peine besoin de disparaître pour ne plus exister.

Imagination consists in expelling from reality many incomplete persons, making use of the magical and subversive powers of desire, to obtain their return in the form of a completely satisfying presence. This, then, is the inextinguishable, uncreated reality.

there is no absence that cannot be replaced

dans la tradition hindoue, le mantra qui a été appris autrement que de la bouche d'un guru autorisé est sans aucun effet, parce qu'il n'est pas « vivifié » par la présence de l'influence spirituelle dont il est uniquement destiné à être le véhicule. Ceci s'étend d'ailleurs, à un degré ou à un autre, à tout ce à quoi attachée une influence spirituelle.

Stillness is always waiting for you to reconnect to it; to know the truth once again

The slowest-talking man I know tends to loom in elevator doors, in hallways, booths, and other narrow places.

good stance and posture reflect a proper state of mind. ~ Morihei Ueshiba

She shrugged. "I guess not, but at the same time, sometimes the best things are right in front of you.

You can't be so busy building a life that you forget to live.

We hardly find traces of information about their presence. One didn't take notice of the dogs, because their presence was taken for granted.

Your presence here, Miss Eads, is preposterous. This is neither a rooming house nor an asylum for hysterical women; it is my—" "I'm not hysterical!" "Very well, I withdraw it. It is not an asylum for unhysterical women; it is my office and my home.

But when you're there, there you are, and

You are so engrossed in the fact that you are oblivious to its environment

It stuck out all over him, one of those born-to-command guys. I never invite them to parties.

As with all journeys, the Way has an end, though it should not be imagined as a straight road leading to a fixed destination but rather as a majestic mountain whose peak conceals the presence of God. There are, of course, many paths to the summit-some better than others. But because every path eventually leads to the same destination, which path one takes is irrelevant.

He smelled more powerfully like himself now that he was dead than he had when he was alive.

For me the bare feet are grounding. I'm connected to the Earth in a way that I cannot be any other way.

Court the moments of joy

That's the thing with magic. You've got to know it's still here, all around us, or it just stays invisible for you." Charles de Lint (B. 1951) WRITER AND CELTIC FOLK MUSICIAN

You will reach a point where you know with certainty that you are in the realm of divinity, or for those who prefer to use the word "God," in the presence of God. To be in the presence of God or the realm of divinity is to be beyond the mind.