Quotes About Presence

To realize that you are not your thoughts is when you begin to awaken spiritually.

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When George Hirsch ran the New York City Marathon in 1976, the first year the course snaked through all five boroughs, the event was a lean affair. He and two thousand others dodged wayward bicycles and pedestrians on the streets, with little help from an anemic police presence.

Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.

Birth control that really works: Every night before we go to bed we spend an hour with our kids.

When you almost lose something, you have to touch it often to reassure yourself it's still there.

At times of great emotion, good or bad, I find I am gone, somewhere else, watching it happen to me, a different me. I miss a lot of my own life, my own moments, because I step outside myself. I feel it all more in retrospect than in actual time.

Let her be with her memories. Better that than be aware of this reality.

To encounter anything fully is to touch its absence… from "Letterbox

Mrs. Gley came down in a rush. She had on a kind of tea gown whose draperies flew out behind her, like the tail of a blowzy comet.

He was a man of fifty-five or so wearing an open-necked white shirt from which his head jutted like a weathered statue.

You can't worry about the rest of the world, never mind the rest of the universe. All you can do is look to your left and your right and try to be kind to whoever is there.

Memory is the 'self', because it is my presence to myself, the way in which I constitute myself and understand myself as a subject with a continuous history of experience.

True positiveness is the effect on life that comes about simply through not being affected by it. This beautiful thing comes to pass by discovering a relationship with our Parent Self. If we let the Presence within affect us more than our environment, we remain calm—less and less affected by stress.

Ah! Que linda prova de amor é plantar uma árvore para que alguém amado, ausente, possa se assentar à sua sombra.

De repente os muitos desapareceram da minha frente, e o seu era o único rosto que eu via. Queria estar ao seu lado, segurar a sua mão. Mas você está longe – e fui então para a minha solidão.

só temos o momento. Não percam o agora.

Essa ausência tem o nome de saudade. Eu não tenho saudade. É a saudade que me tem. Mora, dentro de mim, a "ausência

aconchegar minha saudade nos meus braços. Porque saudade é um estar em mim. Assim, por favor, não tentem me consolar.

the gap between wanting and getting, while the 'being' mode has no voice, it's just directly sensing something; and being in the eye of the experience.

Are you alive, do you still exist?

I had been afraid of the awful presence of the river, which was the soul of the river, but through her [Ultima] I learned that my spirit shared in the spirit of all things.

'Tisn't beauty, so to speak, nor good talk necessarily. It's just It. Some women'll stay in a man's memory if they once walked down a street.

You go from village to village on your horse asking everyone, "Has anyone seen my horse?"