Quotes About Presence

There is too much doing - too little being! When we begin to get strenuous, life begins to grow intolerable.

Life is too short to rush around and be too busy for your kids.

Look at how beautiful life is, and just keep looking until you see it. You don't see what is in front of you because you're so distracted by your thoughts.

Just see beauty as you walk around through your day. Feel things. Unhook from your thoughts and all the busy things you are doing. Start to look at life. This is mindfulness.

Whereas we are inclined to equate the reality and the sense of the reality, these are different things—there can be a reality of God's presence and activity whether we feel it or not, and we can have a sense of God's reality and activity but the sense may be false.)

One of the earliest lessons I learned as a child was that if you looked away from something, it might not be there when you looked back.

Para multiplicar el tiempo necesitamos tener más presencia de Dios. Entonces trabajaremos con más paz e intensidad y con más ganas de hacer bien las cosas. Nuestro tiempo se multiplicará como resultado porque hacemos las cosas bien, con más interés y ganas de hacerlo correctamente. De esta forma nos distraeremos menos y perderemos menos el tiempo».

Several of them were discussing this in low tones as they waited for Halt to arrive - until they realized that he was already among them. They weren't used to this. Kings were supposed to sweep into a room majestically - not suddenly appear without anyone seeing their arrival.

Behind him, in the darkness, the ancient, invisible presence that inhabited the hill slipped silently back to its resting place, satisfied that another interloper had moved on.

The dead live." "How do they live?" "By love.

If the heart of a man is depressed with cares, The mist is dispelled when a woman appears.

God is not a Sunday plumber - he's always available...

you are not what you seem - you're a Sylph - you leave and the air retains your image - you haunt me...

yes, I am your priest, your magician, your lover - I make charms to incant your presence...

I pluck every day from my sweater or chair, red hairs...strands of significance, traces of you in my life ...

when you enter a room, my wound opens, but there is light, always light, when you come in...

I learn about the sacred in the everyday - I look in your face...

A madeleine moment - a sound, a scent can incant her presence...

yes I understand your spells—your sex magic—at least, I know this: all lights dim when you walk in...

The book of the hours - Tres Riche Heures - what did it matter when I had you?...

At some point, you gotta stop looking up at the sky, or one of these days you'll look back down and see that you floated away, too.

And then the line was quite but not dead. I almost felt like he was there in my room with me, but in a way it was better, like I was not in my room and he was not in his, but instead we were together in some invisible and tenuous third space that could only be visited on the phone.

Perhaps, however, it will help us to remind ourselves that salvation is more importantly about what we are saved to (renewed access to the presence of God and relationship with him) than what we are saved from. This point is significant because too many Christians find it too easy to think only that they are saved, forgiven and on their way to heaven instead of taking seriously the idea that we are to be in deepening relationship with God day by day here and now.

It is in suffering that we are withdrawn from the sway of time and mere things, and find ourselves in the presence of profounder truth.