Quotes About Presence

The extent to which we live from day to day, from week to week, intent on details and oblivious to larger presences, is a gauge of our impoverishment in time.

A Simple lifestyle of reduced consumption allows more time for interaction with living, dynamic beings, more opportunity for meeting the Other more fully and unencumbered.

I have realized sometimes I do better working under a crazy schedule. It gives me less time to overthink things and forces me to be present.

Every time I see him, he's not there.

If you don't know how to meditate at least try to spend some time every day just sitting.

You live in my head all the time.

I have spent too much time with my eye glued to the viewfinder and ended up missing both the image of the mind and that on film.

When you're on stage, the real world just drops away for that time. It's pretty intense.

The day is conscious of itself.

When you are fully present, you are truly living; the rest of the time, you are merely existing

No matter where she is, it is as though Lol is there for the first time. She no longer experiences the invariable distance that memory provides: she is there, in the present.

Sometimes, after long intervals, I have thought to feel the slight stir of an approach, a touch as light as the contact of eyelashes and warm as the hollow of a hand. And the shade of Patroclus appears at Achilles' side..

Lo guardé a mi servicio; su presencia me sirve de advertencia, quizá de castigo. No había querido dejar tuerto a aquel miserable. Pero tampoco había querido que un niño que me amaba muriera a los veinte años.

Il n'est pas difficile de nourrir des pensées admirables lorsque les étoiles sont présentes. Il est plus difficile de les garder intactes dans la petitesse des journées ; il est plus difficile d'être devant les autres ce que nous sommes devant Dieu. (p. 65)

The stars are always there, even in the daytime. Sometimes we just can't see them.

When happiness makes a guest appearance in one's life, it's important to make the most of it. It may not stay around for long and when it has gone wouldn't it be terrible to think that all the time one could have been happy was wasted worrying about when that happiness would be taken away?

The stars are always there, even in the daylight. Sometimes we just can't see them.

When happiness makes a guest appearance in one's life, it's important to make the most of it. It may not stay around for long and when it bas gone wouldn't it be terrible to think that all the time one could have been happy was wasted worrying about when that happiness would be taken away?

It's not how long it glows. It's not how long the light lasts. It's what it says while it's still visible.

How a person seems to show up for us is intimately connected to how we choose to show up for them.

The only way to gain power in a world that is moving too fast is to learn to slow down. And the only way to spread one's influence wide to learn how to go deep. The world we want for ourselves and our children will not emerge from electronic speed but rather from a spiritual stillness that takes root in our souls. Then, and only then, will we create a world that reflects the heart instead of shattering it.

Love is everywhere, but if our eyes aren't open to see it, we miss out. Who among us hasn't missed out on love because we were looking for it in one package and it came in another? Our problem is rarely a lack of love so much as a mental block to our awareness of its presence.*

Enlightened people don't have anything we don't have. They have perfect love inside, and so do we. The difference is that they don't have anything else.

God is in you. GOD. IS. IN. YOU. There is nowhere to go, nothing to fill up, nothing to seek, there is only going inside