Quotes About Presence

The only thing more important than your to-do list is your to-be list. The only thing more important than your to-be list is to be. ~

Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts.

The Tao, which is the Force, is fully present, alive, and unassailable by the illusions that cloud our vision as we plod through a world of shadows and distortions.

What do you think is there that you cannot find here?

Not the Force, but a more ancient, more highly developed sense in man half convinced him they were being watched.

She didn't know what Senta was saying, beyond the recurrent sounding of the word Mann, but she sensed the presence of passionate love, and felt the air of legend, which had a natural hold on her.

Where are they now, as he sits at his bedside table, listening to the sound of his running bath, vaguely perceiving the change in the light.

I found it very difficult to feel easy around the guy, even once I'd got used to the shock of his presence. It's a strange feeling...the first time you meet him your brain wants to scream, blow a fuse and shut itself down immediately, refusing to accept that he exists. This lasts for a couple of minutes, at which time he's still there and hasn't gone away, and in the end you just accept him because he's standing there and talking to you and after a while it almost seems normal. Almost.

Indeed, there is something in this valley, some spirit and some life, and much to talk about in the huts. Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.

It's no wonder we don't defend the land where we live. We don't live here. We live in television programs and movies and books and with celebrities and in heaven and by rules and laws and abstractions created by people far away and we live anywhere and everywhere except in our particular bodies on this particular land at this particular moment in these particular circumstances.

Like when you sit in front of a fire in winter — you are just there in front of the fire. You don't have to be smart or anything. The fire warms you.

Kenangan itu adalah hantu di sudut pikir. Selama kita cuma diam dan nggak berbuat apa-apa, selamanya dia tetap jadi hantu.

Look! Why want anything more marvellous than what is.

What we need is here. —Wendell Berry

For where all love is, the speaking is unnecessary

Why was he here? Why was he always, always, always around? Didn't he have a life? Didn't he have anything better to do?

Find your place, and let the world gravitate to you. None of this mix-and-mingle business.

You gotta have style to get up in the morning

to their cars in the driveway. I smiled, watching

even though I couldn't have him or touch him or talk to him or even look into his eyes. I needed his presence. I needed him close by. I

I had the feeling if I hadn't been there

Mrs Forrester said you could ruin a thing by wishing for something else. "If you're having fun at the beach, like we are, but you spend all your time here wishing you could be here all the time, you're wasting the time you're here.

The man who heard the land was not farming, was not hunting, was not gathering wood for the log pile beside the house, but was an ordinary man driving on a highway, and the car stopped, and he heard the land. He thought it might have been the wind he heard, but knew it was the land. He couldn't understand the words, but he knew the land was speaking.

so if you feel a little breeze or smell a donut smell sometimes, why, you know it's just my thoughts passing through.