Quotes About Presence

Chandler wrote like a slumming angel and invested the sun-blinded streets of Los Angeles with a romantic presence.

No one looks at the mountains. But they were there, making them all look silly.

Silence is letting what there is be what it is. In that sense it has to do profoundly with God: the silence of simply being. We experience that at times when there is nothing we can say or do that would not intrude on the integrity and the beauty of that being.

In me you exist,' says the house.

The silence sat down with them like an invisible creature with its finger to its lips.

It may happen to me at any time that everything will be just what it is, with no stories in anything.

A secret of growth is to never lose sight of the quiet place within you, the silent harbor of the Lord's presence. Enjoy your memories from days of old, but prize nothing more than the Lord and the value He places on each day.

If we're busy borrowing distress from yesterday or anxiety from tomorrow, we miss today's best opportunities, thereby postponing our growth in grace, in faith, in character.

Even in times of grief, we can keep from being submerged and shattered if we seek out God's words of comfort today, letting shafts of sunlight from His presence break through our darkness.

Zazen is better than a home. Zazen is a home that you can't ever lose.

When you beat a drum, you create NOW, when silence becomes a sound so enormous and alive it feels like you're breathing in the clouds and the sky, and your heart is the rain and the thunder.

Think not-thinking. How do you think not-thinking? Nonthinking. This is the essential art of zazen.

Drawing my thoughts out of my mind and holding me down to earth at the same time.

The cat still seemed to be somewhat there with him, but only as an absence, a cat-shaped hole.

There had been moments when she'd sensed his presence nearby, like when the crows left her gifts, for example. Her trinket bowl was chockablock full of screws, paper clips, buttons, broken clamshells, bits of tinfoil, beads and stray earrings.

Jiko also says that to do zazen is to enter time completely.

No era un poema. Era un único carácter. Cinco trazos. Sei. Ikiru. Vivir. Sujetando aún el pincel, nos miró a mi padre y a mí: —Por el momento —nos dijo a los dos—. Por ahora.

That's the thing about Jiko, one of her superpowers, is that just by being in the same room with you, she can make you feel okay about yourself.

Children, I came to understand, need you around, even if they ignore you. In fact they need you around so they can ignore you.

Hey, take a good look, isn't the world still under your feet? I'm on this ground, and on this same ground are trees and grass and ants carrying sand to their nests, little girls chasing rolling balls, and puppies running. This ground runs under countless houses and mountains and rivers and seas, under everywhere. And I'm on it. Don't be scared, I'd told myself, the world is still under me.

I don't really know how to say it, but if you're really honestly having fun, you're not supposed to think and look for things right in the middle of it, am I right?

Kiedy si? spieszysz, nic nie widzisz, nic nie prze?ywasz, niczego nie do?wiadczasz, nie my?lisz! Szybkie tempo wysusza najg??bsze warstwy twojej duszy, st?pia twoj? wra?liwo??, wyja?awia ci? i odcz?owiecza.

Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.

The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard, nor read about, nor seen, but, if one will, are to be lived.