Quotes About Presence

To see the preciousness of all things, we must bring our full attention to life

All the best bits of a film happen when I'm looking down at my phone. Life, is similar.

When there's nothing to see, when there are no thoughts, life comes instead.

Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absence.

It is very important for an actor or actress to look around at everything and everyone and never forget about real life.

As you get older, you see how rapidly the years and decades fly by, so I would encourage anyone, no matter the age, to seize their life and be fully present.

It was my life — like all lives, mysterious and irrevocable and sacred. So very close, so very present, so very belonging to me. How wild it was, to let it be.

On the bookshelf of life, God is a useful work of reference, always at hand but seldom consulted.

The effect of standing before God by welcoming him before us will be the transformation of our entire life.

Now my ability to notice things and respond to things and be here is far more profound. With that comes happiness, with it comes sadness, but it's a beautiful life.

Life is not a journey you want to make on autopilot.

I'm not trying to find answers anymore. I'm trying to live what I know.

One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.

I only come to life when there are people watching.

Most of life is showing up. You do the best you can, which varies from day to day.

When we keep choosing between right and wrong. We spend our energy sorting life rather than living it.

If you are not present, you are unable to have an effect on that unique, fleeting moment called now that truly determines what happens next. Now is the only creative moment we have. Fear was causing me to project my past into my future, never allowing me to engage in the now. Worry and fear are thieves that rob us of our ability to change.

One should not stand at the foot of a sick person's bed, because that place is reserved for the guardian angel.

The essence of a thing is found only in its absence.

Everything was dark. His tall figure dissolved into the night, but I could still feel his eyes on me, shining despite the darkness.

To be compassionate is to move into the right here, right now with an open heart consciousness and a willingness to be supportive.

A]fter all, the position of a reader in a book is very like that occupied by angels in the world, when angels still had any credibility. Yours is, like theirs, a hovering, gravely attentive presence, observing everything, from whom nothing is concealed, for angels are very bright mirrors. Hearts and minds are as open as the landscape to their view, as to yours; like them you are in the fabled world invisible.

God is ever present. He's in every breath, in every step. He's here, always, always.

I wake up some mornings and sit and have my coffee and look out at my beautiful garden, and I go, 'Remember how good this is. Because you can lose it.'