Quotes About Presence

Every day should be a good day. People fool themselves that they'll be here forever.

I have a theory that the only way you can be any good is if the camera likes you. If the camera doesn't like you, you are gone.

The only thing I know is that no one ever sat in a therapist's or a psychiatrist's room saying, 'My parents just loved me too much.' The only thing you can do is love them and be around. Kids don't really care what your car is like or how big their house is. All they really care about is that you are around.

To the perfect, if it be perfect, there is nothing that can be added; therefore, the will is not capable of any other desire, when that which is of the perfect is present with it, highest and best.

Often when He comes, He finds the soul occupied. Other guests are there, and He has to turn away. He cannot gain entry, for we love and desire other things; therefore, His gifts, which He is offering to everyone unceasingly, must remain outside.

When they say 'action,' I am into it completely and forget everything around. When they say 'cut,' I am back to myself.

Being in the thick of things is a good thing.

The only thing you ever have is now.

That's why I love theatre, because things happen in the moment. I think you work without being conscious that you're working.

I feel God's presence in my life, as a direct result of prayer. We say, 'Why, God?' when bad things happen to us. But I don't know how anybody can live without faith.

I'm not a good thinker of tomorrow, looking forward. I live day-to-day. It's much easier for me that way.

I stopped thinking; I just go out, and everything is in the moment. I just stop thinking and start moving - you just gotta be you.

When reading, only read. When eating, only eat. When thinking, only think.

When the dog looks at you, the dog is not thinking what kind of a person you are. The dog is not judging you.

The thinking mind is what is busy. You have to stay in your heart. You have to be in your heart. Be in your heart. The rest is up here in your head where you are doing, doing, doing.

I think people generally are lost, as they keep thinking about what is going to happen and what they have done. They are not alive anymore. The art of listening is missing. In their head, they are doing something else.

In life, you are struck by the importance of presence, of the small moments of meaning, the miracle of your child's breath, the feelings of deep human connection. When you are thinking about technology, your mind is not on all of that.

I daydream just like everybody else. I just do it with my body facing the field, so everybody thinks I'm paying attention.

And then there's also this element of - some people would describe it as spirits or a presence that appears when things are very difficult, physically and emotionally. You know, when you're really putting out. So the third man aura is sort of an appearance. It's the yeti.

I think some people have a rare ability to focus. As a player, Earl Thomas has it. When he was at practice or in a game, he was always on; he was right there.

If there is anybody in this land who thoroughly believes that the meek shall inherit the earth they have not often let their presence be known.

God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that he is so.

The existence of dark matter and dark energy are inferred from observations! They are not theoretical constructs. Though invisible, both reveal their presence through the effects that they exert on motions of celestial bodies and in the case of dark matter - the bending of light as well.

Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.