Quotes About Presence

Watch your mind. Without training it might run away and leave your heart for the immense human feast set by the thieves of time. Do not hold regrets.

You're gone now, and I'm still in this predicament called living, Charlie. I imagine things don't change much when you cross the line. You're still you. And I'm still here at the other end of this long, long wave, listening.

Gather strength, pull it in Be right where you are.

We inhabit ourselves without valuing ourselves, unable to see that here, now, this very moment is sacred; but once it's gone – its value is incontestable.

I am the presence standing here at this juncture of Time & Space- who else?

I don't want anything from you but the fact of you.

Impossible not to imagine the dead observing us. Our love for them a soft, shimmering gossamar that trails behind us.

But you are a solace just by existing, vividly in my thoughts if not here before me.

The Playwright had long been fascinated by the strange mercurial personality of the Actor. What is acting. and why do we respond to great acting as we do? We know that an actor is acting and yet - we wish to forget that an actor is acting, and in the presence of talented actors we quickly do forget. This is a mystery, a riddle. How can we forget the actor acts? Is the actor acting on our behalf? Is the subtext of the actor's acting always and forever our own buried (and denied) acting?

She was there beside him, an incalculable distance away.

Happiness is being in one place. The picture fixes you in one place.

I am the presence standing here at this juncture of Time & Space—who else? & that night in my sand-colored 1987 Ford van with the American flag decal covering the rear window cruising Cedar Street, Dale Springs & parked in shadow & with my binoculars trained to the mostly shaded or darkened windows I thought, If this is where I am this is who I am. & so it was.

I could see how, the more time you spent in the man's presence, the less silly he seemed. There is a kind of erosion, a wearing away, in one's perception of foolishness, if the object of derision gives no sign that he acknowledges it.

You lay your hand against his skin and just rib his back. Blow into his ear. Press that baby up against your own skin and walk outside with him, where the night air will sourround him, and moonlight fall on his face. Whistle, maybe. Dance. Hum. Pray. (how to calm a crying baby)

Lord, what if I miss You? What if I miss You? What if I miss You? Oh, I'm so scared! God, what if I miss You? He answered simply, Joyce, don't worry; if you miss Me, I will find you.

Millions of people miss today because either they refuse to let go of the past or they worry about the future.

is full of people and situations that don't please us, so if we are waiting for perfect circumstances to make us happy, we will be waiting forever. That's why we must learn to base our happiness and joy not on outward circumstances, but on the Lord's presence inside us. Thankfully, we can learn not to fret or have any anxiety about anything, but in

Psalm 16:11 tells us in His presence is fullness of joy. If we have received Jesus as our Savior and Lord, He, the Prince of Peace lives inside us.

Father, help me get to a place where my natural reaction is praise. Thank You that I can look to You and Your goodness rather than the cares of the world. I am grateful for Your presence and power in my life.

The present moment is the greatest gift we have from God, but if we are not present we miss it.

Your presence is a present to the world. You are unique and one of a kind. Do not ever forget, for even a day… how very special you are!

Victory is not the absence of problems; it is the presence of God's power.

God has said repeatedly that we do not need to fear because He is with us. The prayer

Por qué te abates, alma mía, y por qué te turbas dentro de mí? Espera en Dios, pues he de alabarle otra vez por la salvación de Su presencia. Salmo 42:5