Quotes About Presence

If we are to trust God, we must learn to see that He is continuously at work in every aspect and every moment of our lives.

Christ's whole demeanor was such that people were often restful in His presence. This effect is another outworking of the grace of gentleness. People are at rest, or at ease, around the Christian who is truly gentle.

Our goal in the pursuit of godliness should be to grow more in our conscious awareness that every moment of our lives is lived in the presence of God; that we are responsible to Him and dependent on Him. This goal would include a growing desire to please Him and glorify Him in the most ordinary activities of life. Of

He is with us in our troubles.

He watched me breathe. He knew my breath.

I had never realized how much I needed the attention of others to confirm my own presence.

It's really hard to do nothing totally. Even just sitting here, like this, our bodies are churning, our minds are chattering. There's a whole commotion going on inside us.

La penumbra del cuarto, en su muda ausencia, envuelve el cuerpo del hombre sobre un rincón de la alfombra

mis compañeros de clase, tolerantes pero reservados con relación a mi presencia, trataban siempre de evadirme con respeto, disimulaban el fastidio que les causaba mi presencia. Ante eso, yo no peleaba. Me reía.

And even if they don't find what they're looking for, isn't it enough to be out walking together in the sunlight?

There would seem to be nothing more obvious, more tangible and palpable than the present moment. And yet it eludes us completely. All the sadness of life lies in that fact. —Milan Kundera

He lived where he was, began to enjoy the moment he was in, instead of fuming about the moment of departure which should have, and had not, arrived. These were his life's beatitudes, times when his own nature did not separate him from his life; when the needle of his being held steady at the very moment and place of his existence. It was his ambition to live his whole life in this way; though he had schemes and plans for everything else, he knew no way to scheme himself into such moments.

For the first time in a long while, he looked down and saw his hands. If you have had this experience, you'll know just what I mean.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Love is about needing someone, about feeling as if the day isn't quite right if they're not there. Its about knowing that, no matter how bad a day you've had, the moment you see them again or hear their voice, the world is back in its place.

I never think of the future. I never imagine what comes next.

Still, I was present. I kept a promise I made to myself a little over a year before to show up in my own life. To feel things, whether they were the result of bad memories, or good ones in the making.

To be concentrated means to live fully in the present, in the here and now, and not to think of the next thing to be done, while I am doing something right now.

While we teach knowledge, we are losing that teaching which is the most important one for human development: the teaching which can only be given by the simple presence of a mature, loving person.

Mother's love is unconditional, it is all-protective, all-enveloping; because it is unconditional it can also not be controlled or acquired. Its presence gives the loved person a sense of bliss; its absence produces a sense of lostness and utter despair. Since mother loves her children because they are her children, and not because they are "good," obedient, or fulfill her wishes and commands, mother's love is based on equality.

Das Wort Interesse stammt vom lateinischen inter-esse, das heisst dabeisein, beim anderen sein, nicht in sich selbst eingeschlossen sein.

Si uno está concentrado, poco importa qué está haciendo; las cosas importantes, tanto como las insignificantes, toman una nueva dimensión de la realidad, porque están llenas de la propia atención.

Estar concentrado significa vivir plenamente en el presente, en el aquí y el ahora, y no pensar en la tarea siguiente mientras estoy realizando otra. Es innecesario decir que la concentración debe ser sobre todo practicada por personas que se aman mutuamente. Deben aprender a estar el uno cerca del otro, sin escapar de las múltiples formas acostumbradas.

Was hatte er in dieser Stadt, in diesem verrückt gewordenen Steinbaukasten, zu suchen? Blumigen Unsinn schreiben, damit die Menschheit noch mehr Zigaretten rauchte als bisher? Den Untergang Europas konnte er auch dort abwarten, wo er geboren war. Das hatte er davon, dass er sich einbildete, der Globus drehe sich nur, solange er ihm zuschaue. Dieses lächerliche Bedürfnis, anwesend zu sein!