Quotes About Presence

I liked how she never offered any physical comfort. I appreciate people who have a healthy respect for personal boundaries. Our culture is too touchy-feely; everyone wants a hug these days. But Dr. Cooper just sat and was present.

Here we free ourselves of distractions and try to be present in a world that conspires against it

The easiest way of communicating with those on the Earth plane is while they sleep. You'll be able to tap into their dreams easily and spend time with their souls, and they'll wake up feeling as if you've been with them. The reality is, you have. Your souls will be connected: as they leave their body through the natural sleep process and astral-travel, you'll be able to meet with them and talk, and even have fun together.

When you are able to embrace the reality that in any given moment you have everything you need, you'll find a way to be happy with what you have.

In our darkest moments, when we cry out to God and wonder if He's listening, He sometimes whispers, Wait. It's a hard word to hear yet comforting as well. It means He is there, He is with us, and He has a plan, even if it is not our plan.

The ocean filled the footprints where a boy and cat had stood.

Dying is a very solitary thing. The only thing we can do it be there when she wants us there.

From across the room, Mama watched them

Signs of the Bastard's holy presence tend to be unmistakable, to those who know Him. The screaming, the altercations, the people running in circles - all that was lacking was something bursting into flame, and I was not entirely sure for a moment you weren't going to provide that as well.

People give themselves to you, in their talking, and in other ways, if you are quiet and patient and let them, and not in such a damned rush to give yourself to them you go bat-blind and deaf.

For Berry, you just be there, Whit. Be the one person in the wide green world she doesn't have to explain it to, because you were there and saw it all for yourself. Hand her a clean cloth if she cries or bleeds, and some warm thing for the pain that doubles her over. The time to hold her will come. This day isn't over yet.

The world is made by the people who show up for the job

He claims that the gods, and we, are both right here all the time, a shadow's thickness apart. We've no distance to cross at all to get to each other.

In a voice not his own, as resonant in this cell as the reverberations in a bass drum, Iroki said, 'Take better care of my gift this time, child. You're going to need it.' The sense but not the sound of an immense belly laugh, tidal, oceans deep. And then as vast as the presence, somehow vaster, absence. The emptiness left was like a room stripped of its very air. One would weep for the loss if one could only breathe.

I'm frightened all the time, yet I can't wish myself elsewhere.

The world is made by the people who show up for the job," Miles agreed.

Joy is a mark of Them, you see.

Preacher, was there

I am sorry, Fletcher," said Tandy, beating him to the apology. "But to explain the hows and whys of my earthly presence would be to explain something your brain is not capable of processing. No offense, of course." "No offense taken." "And please remember that I'm new to this, too. I am certain there will be many situations for which I have no explanation.

In my mother's house there is still God. Act 1, Scene 1 ~ A Raisin in the Sun

No matter that you anticipate a thing; you get so used to it as part of the future that its actuality, its arrival, its force and presence, startles you, takes you by surprise, as would a ghost suddenly appearing in the room wearing familiar perfume and boots.

Thoughts of leaving will move in, bivouac throughout the living room; they will have eyes like rodents and peer out at you from under the sofa, in the dark, from under the sink, luminous glass beads positioned in twos.

And he saw Thire, in a helmet with bright crimson flares. He was searching for something. And with him was another presence—one that felt like a vast storm in the Force, full of malice and greed. Troubled, Yoda opened his eyes.

You stick your finger in the water and you pull it out, and that is how much of a hole you leave when you're gone.