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Quotes About Presence

Cease partiicipation, if only for one day this year --- if only to make sure that we don't lose forever the rare and vanishing human talent of appreciating ease.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
Si a Dios lo llaman presencia es por algo: Dios está aquí ahora mismo. El lugar para hallarlo es el presente y el momento es ahora.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
at any given moment, and that night, going back to
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
she would like to spend as much time as possible in such a state of transcendence while she is still here on earth. That's all. That's what I call creative living.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
There's a reason they call God a presence—because God is right here, right now. In the present is the only place to find Him, and now is the only time.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
It helped that Celia Ray could walk into a joint like nobody I've ever seen. She would throw her resplendence into a room ahead of her, the way a soldier might throw a grenade into a machine gunner's nest, and then she would follow her beauty right on in and assess the carnage.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
The other problem with all this swinging through the vines of thought is that you are never where you are. You are always digging in the past or poking at the future, but rarely do you rest in this moment. It's something like the habit of my dear friend Susan, who-whenever she sees a beautiful place-exclaims in near panic, It's so beautiful here! I want to come back here someday! and it takes all my persuasive powers to try to convince her that she IS already here.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
Why have I been chasing happiness my whole life when bliss was here the entire time?
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
Bless his heart, Giovanni doesn't try to put a reassuring arm around me, nor does he express the slightest discomfort about my explosion of sadness. Instead, he just sits through my tears in silence, until I've calmed down.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
Yoga is about self-mastery and the dedicated effort to haul your attention away from your endless brooding over the past and your nonstop worrying about the future so that you can seek, instead, a place of eternal presence from which you may regard yourself and your surroundings with poise. Only
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
Para hallar el equilibrio que buscas te tienes que convertir en esto. Debes tener los pies tan firmemente plantados en la tierra que parezca que tienes cuatro piernas en lugar de dos. De este modo podrás estar en el mundo. Pero debes dejar de mirar el mundo con la mente. Tienes que mirarlo con el corazón. Así llegarás a conocer a Dios.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
believe that we are surrounded by a host of unseen friends and loved ones, now passed away, who exert an influence upon our lives, and who never abandon us.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
Anyway, I quite liked the way he lived inside my imagination as a massive and powerful presence, built out of his poems and the stories I'd heard about him. So I decided to know him only that way—through my imagination. And that's where he remains for me to this day: still alive inside me, completely internalized, almost as though I dreamed him up.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
There's a reason the call God a presence ~ because God is right here , right now. In the present is the only place to find Him, and now is the only time.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
There's a reason they call God a presence ~ because God is right here , right now. In the present is the only place to find Him, and now is the only time.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
She was paying me the compliment of her undivided attention, ...
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
She saw that Matavai Bay had become, in the hushed and balmy night, as smooth as a mirror. The entire canopy of stars above her was reflected perfectly in the water, as though there were two heavens now: one above, one below. The silence and purity of this was formidable. The beach felt heavy with presences. Had Ambrose ever seen such a thing while he was here? Two heavens, in one night? Had he ever felt this dread and wonderment, this sense of both loneliness and presence?
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
He was aware, suddenly, of the chill condensing clammily on his skin, the smell of damp cobblestones, of the very air flowing in and out of his lings. But most of all he was aware of the woman, this woman, his woman, standing so proudly, waiting patiently for him, only him. He walked toward her and knew with every fiber of his being that he walked to life itself.
~ Elizabeth Hoyt
There was no sound, but she felt a movement, a shifting of the air in her room, the warmth of another presence. Isabel opened her eyes. He was there, at the foot of her bed, a single candle in his hand, dressed only in shirtsleeves, waistcoat, and breeches. "Forgive me," he whispered as he set the candle down. "I could not stay away.
~ Elizabeth Hoyt
It was no use. Edward rolled his head back against his shoulders, trying to ease the tension. He would have to make a trip to London soon to spend a night or even two at Aphrodite's Grotto. Perhaps after that he could be in his secretary's presence without lustful thoughts taking over his mind.
~ Elizabeth Hoyt
There are people who stick in one's memory much more clearly after a brief acquaintance than others whom one sees day after day after a long period.
~ Elizabeth Kostova
What did I know about the horrors of the past? Did they leak into rooms like mist, under doors? Or shatter windows and burst directly into one's presence?
~ Elizabeth Kostova
But when you accept an intruder for too long, you invite him back later as a guest.
~ Elizabeth Kostova
El problema de localizar fotografías confirma la indiferencia ante la presencia de las mujeres en la historia, cosa que se refleja constantemente en los medios, libros, archivos históricos, museos y bibliotecas universitarias. The problem of locating photos often confirms the indifference to women's presence in history, as reflected in the media, books, historical records, museums, university libraries.
~ Elizabeth Martínez