Quotes About Presence

You are only here now; you're only alive in this moment.

We do not think of life - we live it. We do not think of ourselves too much. We do not think of others too much... We just behave in a natural way.

EMILY: "Does anyone ever realize life while they live it...every, every minute?" STAGE MANAGER: "No. Saints and poets maybe...they do some.

Life is where you're at. Whatever you're doing is enough. You don't need to do everything well all the time. When you live your life like that, it's a huge relief.

Actors ought to be larger than life. You come across quite enough ordinary, nondescript people in daily life and I don't see why you should be subjected to them on the stage too.

Beautiful things don't ask for attention.

If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments.

If there is any secret to this life I live, this is it: the sound of what cannot be seen sings within everything that can & there is nothing more to it than that.

Not only do we have to be good at waiting, we have to love it. Because waiting is not waiting, it is life.

The point of life is not to get anywhere-it is to notice that you are, and have always been, already there.

You're either going to walk through life and experience it fully or you're going to be a voyeur. And I'm not a voyeur.

Life simply is. It follows its course. Give yourself to the moment. Let life reveal itself to you.

It is the familiar that usually eludes us in life. What is before our nose is what we see last.

An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.

Stop trying to distinguish the joy of meditation from the messiness of life. Begin to see the divine in everything. She is in the joy just as much as the misery.

Now is all you ever have. There never is anything else. So, you might as well make the now your friend. Otherwise, you are out of alignment with life itself.

We're so busy watching out for what's just ahead of us that we don't take time to enjoy where we are.

What a relief to be empty! Then God can live your life.

I've been given lots of great advice, in my life. As an actor, just being as honest and as present as you can be.

As far as I know, you only get one shot at this life. It only goes round once and time is precious. When I'm not working, you'd better spend that time with someone important.

Focus on this moment. Hold your hand and see what it feels like. Go look at some grass. Talk to a palm tree. Outrun a Ferrari. Experience life.

I seem to have spent a good part of my life - probably too much – in just standing and staring.

Think with the whole body.

The Holy Land is everywhere.