Quotes About Presence

Where I am, death is not; where death is, I am not.

The presence of God is the finest of rewards.

Une mère, c'est une présence que ni l'érosion du temps ni les défaillances de la mémoire ne peuvent altérer.

if the creator of the universe is spending all his time watching you, it must surely be because he loves you

when I really paid close attention, when my mind was open and my senses acute, I was able to find intense joy in the simplest of things.

The only time we can experience happiness is in this moment, here and now.

As outside, so within. Thoughts arose, quite naturally, and I treated them the same as sounds or smells. As always, they would arise, abide, and pass. If I didn't engage with them, there was nowhere for them to remain—they had no power to do so on their own.

Everything was fine, and she had the rare, new sensation of being exactly where she wanted to be.

Light travels differently in a room that contains another person; it reflects and refracts so that even when she was silent or sleeping I knew that she was there.

Remember the French saying: 'He who is absent is always wrong.

The final test of a leader is the feeling you have when you leave his presence after a conference. Have you a feeling of uplift and confidence?' Alcoholics

My mom, she's still always there for me. Always.

Be Thou my vision, O Lord of my heart; Naught be all else to me, save that Thou art: Thou my best thought by day or by night, Waking or sleeping, Thy presence my light. .

Lord, be with me this day, Within me to purify me; Above me to draw me up; Beneath me to sustain me; Before me to lead me; Behind me to restrain me; Around me to protect me. Amen. —PATRICK OF IRELAND (c. 387–c. 460)

be Thou the beginning and the end of all; the pattern whom I follow, the Redeemer in whom I trust, the Master whom I serve, the Friend to whom I look for sympathy. May I never shrink from my duty through any fear of man; make me faithful unto death; and bring me at last into Thy eternal Presence, where with the Father and the Holy Ghost, Thou livest and reignest for ever. Amen. —EDWARD BOUVERIE PUSEY (1800

This is to affirm that since the resurrection and ascension of Jesus, he is present bodily in the world through his people.

I was miles and years away and then suddenly aware my hour was at hand, feeling all their eyes on me.

When a pathogen leaps from some nonhuman animal into a person, and succeeds there in establishing itself as an infectious presence, sometimes causing illness or death, the result is a zoonosis.

your head. Sally Kempton

What remains of your past if you didn't allow yourself to feel it when it happened? If you don't have your experiences in the moment, if you gloss them over with jokes or zoom past them, you end up with curiously dispassionate memories.

You show how much you love someone by being there for them when they need you, by knowing what they need and anticipating those needs.

Humility means accepting reality with no attempt to outsmart it.

In a true you-and-I relationship, we are present mindfully, nonintrusively, the way we are present with things in nature.We do not tell a birch tree it should be more like an elm. We face it with no agenda, only an appreciation that becomes participation: 'I love looking at this birch' becomes 'I am this birch' and then 'I and this birch are opening to a mystery that transcends and holds us both.

Most people think of love as a feeling but love is not so much a feeling as a way of being present.