Quotes About Presence

Six flashlights turned on, beacons that said, We're here, come eat us!

Was she cold? If he'd stayed with her last night, she wouldn't be cold.

Arroo!" I am here. "Arroo!" I am here. I am here. I am here. Alone.

It felt like forever, and since I hadn't gone back inside the house to get my wristwatch before we headed out, time was measured by how it felt.

she made it clear that artists and audiences need to find the inner capacity to meet an event with spaciousness and a sense of possibility. Both life and art can prepare us for the openness that we need to bring ourselves to the unfolding moment.

My mother forbad us to walk backwards. That is how the dead walk, she would say. Where did she get this idea? Perhaps from a bad translation. The dead, after all, do not walk backwards but they do walk behind us. They have no lungs and cannot call out but would love for us to turn around. They are victims of love, many of them.

for when I look at you, even for a moment, no speaking is left in me

The presence of want awakens in him nostalgia for wholeness. His thoughts turn toward questions

WHEN HE IS there they list the stones together. The stones are her lungs.

Could you visit me in dreams? That would cheer me. Sweet to see friends in the night, however short the time.

Every soul innately yearns for stillness, for a space, a garden where we can till, sow, reap, and rest, and by doing so come to a deeper sense of self and our place in the universe. Silence is not an absence but a presence.

Silence is not an absence but a presence. Not an emptiness but repletion. A filling up.

paused in the ineluctable presence of the other, and inhaled.

When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead. Then he placed his right hand on me and said: "Do not be afraid. I am the First and the Last. REVELATION 1:17

And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, "Now the dwelling of God is with men, and he will live with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God." REVELATION 21:3

This is what the LORD says … "Fear not, for I have redeemed you, I have called you by name; you are mine. When you pass through the waters, I will be with you." ISAIAH 43:1 – 2

We know that we live in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit. And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. 1 JOHN 4:13 – 14

The LORD appeared to him and said, "I am the God of your father Abraham. Do not be afraid, for I am with you; I will bless you." GENESIS 26:24

It's been said that peace is not the absence of danger but the presence of God.

And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age. MATTHEW 28:20

Every soul innately yearns for stillness, for a space, a garden where we can till, sow, reap, and rest, and by doing so come to a deeper sense of self and our place in the universe. Silence is not an absence but a presence. Not an emptiness but repletion A filling up.

How do you define difficult?" "By your presence." She grinned fully, delighted to feel the tension dissipate. "Now you are just flattering me for no reason." He grunted. "On the contrary," she said, as if his grunt had been a worded response. "It was most flattering." He stared at her. "What? Did you think I wouldn't figure out how to interpret your grunts?

Like other ghosts, she whispers; not for me to join her, but so that, when I'm close enough, she can push me back into the world.

When you are alone - at sea, in the polar dark - an absence can keep you alive. The one you love maintains your mind. But when she's merely across the city, this is an absence that eats you to the bone.