Quotes About Presence

We didn't sit around looking at our phone or looking at our computer or looking at the television. We didn't sit around looking at screens. We didn't wait for a screen to give us a signal to do something: We were off doing whatever we wanted.

We didn't sit around looking at our phone or looking at our computer or looking at the television. We didn't sit around looking at screens. We didn't wait for a screen to give us a signal to do something: We were off doing whatever we wanted." I

Le début de l'amour, c'est toujours lorsque non seulement on est heureux de la présence de la personne qu'on chérit, mais qu'on l'aime rien que de souvenir, quand elle est absente.

The earth knows exactly how to hold us if we just let it.

Ohhh, that feels lovely. The earth knows exactly how to hold us if we just let it.

When you have a well developed body and you're confident, you see people bending your way, wanting to be on your side, wanting to do things for you.

if one had to think about every footstep one took, ordinary walking would be impossible.

But for goodness sake, Frank— forget you're an engineer, and simply enjoy the view.

The absence of the latter means nothing, though its presence may mean everything

and your presence may be of assistance to me. Now is the dramatic moment of fate, Watson, when you hear a step upon the stair which is walking into your life, and you know not whether for good or ill.

All day the wind had screamed and the rain had beaten against the windows, so that even here in the heart of great, hand-made London we were forced to raise our minds for the instant from the routine of life and to recognise the presence of those great elemental forces which shriek at mankind through the bars of his civilisation, like untamed beasts in a cage.

Where I am always thou art. Thy image lives within my heart

Marnie shook her head, trying to banish the memory, the fear and smell of him. Even now his presence seemed to fill the bed and the tiny house.

All I can report is that I felt pretty sick, nearly as sick as I'd been when I fell into Ara's chickenyard. Sick at heart as well, for I knew there was no escape for Meliara Astiar after all; therefore I resolved that my last job was to summon enough presence of mind to die well.

Life Infinite Beyond words, this no-thingness within, Which I've become. So to remain Only one thing's needed: Zen sitting. I think, breathe with my whole body - Marvellous. The joy's so pure, It's beyond lovemaking, anything. I can see, live anywhere, everywhere. I need nothing, not even life.

Materializations are often best produced in rooms where there are books. I cannot think of any time when materialization was in any way hampered by the presence of books.

It is only with the eyes open that a corporeal form returns, and assembles itself firmly around the hard core of sight.

When they were silent for a moment the quiet weight of the house pressed down from all around them.

Eleanor felt, as she had the day before, that the conversation was being skillfully guided away from the thought of fear, so very present in her own mind. Perhaps she was to be allowed to speak occasionally for all of them so that, quieting her, they quieted themselves and could leave the subject behind them;

Now what was here, she wondered, what was here and is gone, or what was going to be here and never came?

if hungry people were present, they were no doubt choristers and

The Ayurvedic route to great health involves two simple steps: 1. Doing less; 2. Being more.

In zazen, leave your front door and your back door open. Let thoughts come and go. Just don't serve them tea.

When you do something, you should do it with your whole body and mind; you should be concentrated on what you do. You should do it completely, like a good bonfire. You should not be a smoky fire. You should burn yourself completely. If you do not burn yourself completely, a trace of yourself will be left in what you do.