Quotes About Presence

To reveal what is obvious, unavoidable, and never-not-here requires an approach that is not result-oriented, an approach that goes nowhere, an approach that is utterly useless and without purpose.

The Holy Reality is already here, fully complete. And if you think otherwise, then simply stop, look and listen.

You're not going anywhere.

She lived among us for a while And brought joy where she went. We thought she was a gift of God But learned she was but lent.

For what is it that angels do? They bring us good news. They open our eyes to moments of wonder, to lovely possibilities, to exemplary people, to the idea that God is here in our midst. They lift our hearts and give us wings.

The Hawaiians have gifted us with the lovely knowledge that when the breeze stirs in a wedding, as it's doing lightly at this very moment in this garden, it's the presence of their ohana, or family, who are physically absent but are surrounding the brides at this moment with their love, support and blessing.

The biggest gift you can give is to be absolutely present, and when you're worrying about whether you're hopeful or hopeless or pessimistic or optimistic, who cares? The main thing is that you're showing up, that you're here and that you're finding ever more capacity to love this world because it will not be healed without that. That was what is going to unleash our intelligence and our ingenuity and our solidarity for the healing of our world.

The great open secret of gratitude is that it is not dependent on external circumstance. It's like a setting or channel that we can switch to at any moment, no matter what's going on around us. It helps us connect to our basic right to be here, like the breath does.

There is no need to say anything when you pray," the dean had heard Bishop Robert say at a recent confirmation in the city. "Just take time to look at God. And let Him look at you. That's all.

The world clamors, "Do more! Be all that you can be!" But our Father whispers, "Be still and know that I am God.

We are as intimate with God as we choose to be."7 The only limitations of God's presence in our lives are the limits we ourselves set—the excuses we set up to avoid being filled to the measure with God.

And Jesus' words to Martha are the words he wants to speak to your heart and mine: "You are worried and upset about many things, but only one thing is needed." The "one thing" is not found in doing more. It's found by sitting at his feet.

Incluso en estos tiempos en los que soy feliz de otra manera, todos los días tienen ese instante en que me jugaría la primavera por tenerte delante.

Quando se ama deveras e se está com o objeto do amor, não se recorda, não se deseja, não se quer mais nada!

No one wants to disappear. Words pin things down and make them real, and they last so much longer than we do.

He smiled again, and I felt the smile in my fingers and in the soles of my feet; it invaded me like a bad spirit, and Tiger Lily shivered

It's good in some ways, not to have a language. It makes you see things. You turn your attention, not to babbling about yourself, broadcasting each and every thought to everyone within earshot-as people do- but to observing.

Tufty, a recently arrived border terrier, jumped up on her lap, licking her face. Leeda pulled him close, suddenly, and held him, sinking her face into his ears, feeling the warmth of his body against hers, feeling guilty that he wasn't Barky but also feeling happy that he was there. She couldn't imagine holding another person that way. It was love at its simplest.

There are two kinds of people in this world. Those who walk into a room and say 'Here I am' and those who walk into a room and say, 'There you are.

ask what sorts of rethinking and reformulations might allow a better understanding of the political grammar of colonialism's durable presence, the dispositions it fosters, the indignities it nourishes, the indignations that are responsive to those effects.

think through the conceptual habits we bring to the study of colonial presence, not least the assumption of "confident access" to what that presence entails: how it manifests and on whom it most impinges.

It occurred to him, for the first time, that just because you never thought about someone didn't mean they weren't inside you.

The past gets carried with us. It's always there.

This discourse, Count Morano, sufficiently proves, that my affections ought not to be yours," said Emily, mildly, "and this conduct, that I should not be placed beyond the reach of oppression, so long as I remained in your power. If you wish me to believe otherwise, cease to oppress me any longer by your presence.