Quotes About Presence

Too often in our culture of BlackBerrys and cell phones, people are disengaged and disconnected and distracted from their immediate surroundings.

Sitting with Ronan on the couch I often thought 'How can I make this moment more precious? and then I'd realize with a sense of panic that no additional meaning needed to be sought or found. This was all there was. 'But still', I would think, 'What if I can't remember the way his hands feel, his hair. What if I forget how he smells? The sound of his laugh? The shape of his two front teeth?' Time was both too contracted and forever seeming.

Ma's in Room still, I want her here so much much much.

She was with Jude so rarely that when she was, every cell of her body rang with grateful knowledge of it.

The root of all difficulties is a lack of the sense of the Presence of God.

It is not possible that you could ever find yourself anywhere where God was not fully present, fully active, able and willing to set you free.

You guys looking for my dad? People are always, like, looking for him, and he's never around. Daddy is so not here. And I mean that literally and spiritually.

Ik herinner me hem wel, Holly. Ik herinner het me allemaal. Vooral jou. Het is een hele troost dat jij hier bij me bent.' … 'Dat is heel lief van je, Artemis,' zei ze na even te hebben nagedacht. 'Maar je hoeft voor mij niet te doen alsof.

Caretake this moment. Immerse yourself in its particulars. Respond to this person, this challenge, this deed. Quit evasions. Stop giving yourself needless trouble. It is time to really live; to fully inhabit the situation you happen to be in now.

my father...there was never any mistaking his love for me. When I walked into the room, his eyes lit up and he wrapped me in his arms as if it was Christmas morning and I was the best gift imaginable.

Vous jouez à ravir parce que vous vous abandonnez. Vous consentez à la musique, ainsi que vous consentez à l'amour. Vous voilà capable d'épouser chaque instant, chaque note, chaque inflexion. Vous cessez de vous raidir, vous ne filtrez plus.

She was drawn to nature more than to her fiancé. She suspected that happiness was hiding out of doors, behind a tree, like a rabbit; she could see the tip of its nose, she could sense its presence, its invitation, its impatience .

To be fully awake is the condition for not being bored, or being boring—and indeed, not to be bored or boring is one of the main conditions for loving. To be active in thought, feeling, with one's eyes and ears, throughout the day, to avoid inner laziness, be it in the form of being receptive, hoarding, or plain wasting one's time, is an indispensable condition for the practice of the art of loving.

looking for the next thing to do or the newest gadget to use is only a means of protecting oneself from being close to oneself or to another person.

Buddhist concept of mindfulness means precisely a way of being in which one is fully concentrated on everything one is doing at any given moment, whether it is planting a seed or cleaning a room or eating. Or as a Zen master has said: "When I sleep I sleep, when I eat I eat …" 10.

We're always pushing through, hurrying on our long way, trying to get to some other place instead of enjoying the place we'd already got to.

We are so used to the elephant in the room that sometimes we forget it is there

Silence is the language of Om. We need silence to be able to reach our Self. Both internal and external silence is very important to feel the presence of that supreme Love.

You are a Golden Witnessing Screen. Meditation is the effortless effort to keep that screen 24x7 clean, clear and relaxed.

You are a Golden Witnessing Screen. Meditation is the effortless effort to keep that screen clean, clear and relaxed.

I know nothing of this silence except that it lies outside the reach of my intelligence, beyond words - that is why this silence must win, must inevitably defeat me, because it is not a presence at all.

She suffered from the opposite of "phantom limb" syndrome; something essential appeared to be present, but it was not.

We eat a couple of cookies in bed and I point out that there's been a change (not a bad thing but still…) in Rachel Maddow's lip gloss and he admires my keen eye and we brush the cookie crumbs onto the floor because no one is watching. I plump my pillow so vigorously, it knocks everything off my nightstand, and he laughs and says that I'm a danger to myself and others. Those moments are all I want. I want a life of this. He sighs and I sigh.

I would like to go for a ride with you, have you take me to stand before a river in the dark where hundreds of lightning bugs blink this code in sequence: right here, nowhere else! Right now, never again!