Quotes About Presence

There is a spectre inside every photograph.

If the does not come today he exists, he breathes this air and walks these streets.

I began to call friends and relatives. Some called me. They'd heard the news on the radio. Others just came by. I greeted each one in the foyer. Few words were spoken. Mostly, we embraced. People often say they don't know what to say to someone like me at a time like this. Nothing need be said. The presence of those you care about is comfort enough; a warm embrace communicates far more than words do.

One woman put it this way: "...I'm a compassionate person, but I also don't want to be friends with somebody who doesn't full show up as well.

So I placed my heart under lock and key To take some time, and take care of me But I turn around and you're standing here

Love is what's in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening presents and listen. Bobby - Age 5

In reality we are present, we can do absolutely nothing to alter that. But we can fantasise that we are somewhere else. In fact we have evolved such ingenious devices to delude ourselves that we are absent that it is extremely difficult to switch them off.

No matter what the need or when she called for help, He was there with everything she required. There was never any lack either in His love or His provision.

I don't want to be alone," she whispered. "You won't be, through any of this." "It feels very alone. Death is like a cloud coming near that shadows and blocks the color from life." "I'll be here, Rae. Whatever you need. And God promised He would never leave you. He meant it. For the rest of eternity you will never be alone.

Dalam raga ada hati, dan dalam hati ada ruang tak bernama. Di tanganmu tergenggam kunci pintunya. Ruang itu mungil, isinya lebih halus dari serat sutra. Berkata-kata dengan bahasa yang hanya dipahami oleh nurani. Begitu lemahnya ia berbisik, sampai kadang-kadang engkau tak terusik. Hanya kehadirannya yang terus terasa, dan bila ada apa-apa dengannya, duniamu runtuh bagai pelangi meluruh usai gerimis.

Whose idea was it that we should all get jobs, work faster, work better, race from place to place with our brains stewing on tweets, blogs, and sound bites, on must-see movies, must-do experiences, must-have gadgets, when in the end, all any of us will have is our simple beating heart, reaching up for the connection to whoever might be in the room or leaning into our mattress as we draw our last breath.

Whose idea was it that we should all get jobs, work faster, work better, race from place to place with our brains stewing on tweets, blogs, and sound bites, on must-see movies, must-do experiences, must-have gadgets, when in the end, all any of us will have is our simple beating heart, reaching up for the connection to whoever might be in the room or leaning into our mattress as we draw our last breath. I hate to put it in such dramatic terms, but it's kinda true.

These days I find that I am happy enough in the same way that I am warm enough - the goal isn't bliss or even comfort in some cases. The goal is to feel alive.

Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet. It's a way of entering into the quiet that's already thereóburied under the 50,000 thoughts the average person thinks every day

The whole banquet is in the first spoonful.

The presence of GOD is everywhere, you have only to embrace it with your attention

How can you seek God if he's already here? It's like standing in the ocean and crying out, 'I want to get wet.' You want to get over the line to God. It turns out he was always there." Francisco's eyes began to gleam. "Grace comes to those who stop struggling. When it really sinks in that there's nothing you can do to find God, he suddenly appears. That's the deepest mystery, the only one that counts.

How can you seek God if he's already here? It's like standing n the ocean and crying out, 'I want to get wet.' You want to get over the line to God. It turns out he was always there." Francisco's eyes began to gleam. "Grace comes to those who stop struggling. When it really sinks in that there's nothing you can do to find God, he suddenly appears. That's the deepest mystery, the only one that counts

Franz Kafka, the Austrian philosopher and poet, once said, "You need not leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. You need not even listen, simply wait. You need not even wait, just learn to become quiet, and still, and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked. It has no choice; it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

See innocently and you will give life.

Experience isn't a place; it's a focus of attention. You can live there, at the still point around which everything revolves.

The divine doesn't appear by glimpses, in peak moments with sudden blinding light. The divine is constant; it is we who come and go.

There is a force of love present everywhere and it can be trusted to bring your own life into order and peace.

When you can arrive at the point where looking and listening comes from your entire being, you are setting the stage to be an inspiring leader.