Quotes About Presence

To live is enough.

The true purpose [of Zen] is to see things as they are, to observe things as they are, and to let everything go as it goes... Zen practice is to open up our small mind.

When you were still here, Isobe thought, death seemed so far removed from me. It was as though you stood with both arms outstretched, keeping death from me. But now that you're gone, suddenly it seems right here in front of me.

Books, books, books. It was not that I read so much. I read and re-read the same ones. But all of them were necessary to me. Their presence, their smell, the letters of their titles, and the texture of their leather bindings.

Mrs Pargeter had that rare quality in any surroundings of being always conspicuous, but never out of place.

You are people in a labyrinth. Just be. He needed to say nothing more. It was the essence of everything. The distillation of a thousand sacred texts and self-help manuals. Life can be a maze. Don't always look for something more. Enjoy the now. Live for the moment.

le parole fissano la verità solo dopo averla assassinata; lasciano sfuggire ciò che v'è in essa di più importante: la sua presenza.

Vous êtes tellement jeune! a-t-elle ajouté. On me dit ça souvent, et me sens flattée. Soudain, le mot m'a agacée. C'est un compliment ambigu qui annonce de pénibles lendemains. Garder de la vitalité, de la gaieté, de la présence d'esprit, c'est rester jeune. Donc, le lot de la vieillesse c'est de la routine, la morosité, le gâtisme. Je ne suis pas jeune, je suis bien conservée. C'est different.

En general la soledad no me aterra y en pequeñas dosis hasta me distiende: las presencias que me son caras me fatigan el corazón.

Le nom, c'est ma présence totale rassemblée magiquement dans l'objet.

Si no soy sino un cuerpo, sólo un lugar al sol y el instante que mide mi suspiro, entonces heme aquí liberado de todas las inquietudes, los temores, las penas. Nada me conmueve, nada me importa. No estoy ligado sino a ese minuto que llena mi vida: ella sola es una presa tangible, una presencia. No existe sino la impresión del momento.

No existe muerte natural: nada de lo que sucede al hombre es natural puesto que su sola presencia cuestiona al mundo. Todos los hombres son mortales: pero para todos los hombres la muerte es un accidente y, aunque la concozca y la acepte, es una violencia indebida.

Mencionou cinco filmes que merecem ser vistos. Impossível. Houve tempo em que podia ir sozinha ao cinema, ou mesmo ao Teatro. É que não estava só. Havia em mim e à minha volta a sua presença. Agora, quando estou só, digo-me: - Estou só. - E tenho medo.

Así, todo esfuerzo del hombre por establecer una relación con el infinito es vana. No puede entrar en relación con Dios, sino a través de la humanidad, y en la humanidad, no alcanza jamás sino a ciertos hombres, y no puede crear sino situaciones limitadas. Si sueña con dilatarse al infinito, se pierde rápidamente. Se pierde en sueños pues, de hecho, no deja de estar ahí, de testimoniar por sus proyectos infinitos su presencia finita.

My eyes followed André. Maybe it is during those moments, as I watch him disappear, that he exists for me with the most overwhelming clarity: his tall shape grows smaller, each pace marking out the path of his return; it vanishes and the street seems to be empty; but in fact it is a field of energy that will lead him back to me as to his natural habitat: I find this certainty even more moving than his presence.

Ter a porta fechada, os lábios fechados: mas o meu silêncio proclama ordens.tu não dizes nada, e eu vou ou não dizes nada, e eu não vou. Toda a minha presença é palavra. Avança então, avança no lodo da noite. Decide. Eu decidi a tua morte e não estamos pagos. Mais ainda. Queria pedir misericórdia: não há misericórdia.

C'était tellement attendu, et tellement inconcevable, (...). C'était elle encore, et à jamais son absence.

Devant le sac de paille, rempli de pelotes de laine et d'un tricot inachevé, devant son buvard, ses ciseaux, son dé, l'émotion nous a submergées. C'est connu le pouvoir des objets : la vie s'y pétrifie, plus présente qu'en aucun de ses instants.

He who has not God in himself cannot feel His absence.

Perfect joy excludes even the very feeling of joy, for in the soul filled by the object no corner is left for saying 'I'. We cannot imagine such joys when they are absent, thus the incentive for seeking them is lacking.

God can never be perfectly present to us here below on account of our flesh. But he can be almost perfectly absent from us in extreme affliction. This is the only possibility of perfection for us on earth. That is why the Cross is our only hope.

To see a landscape as it is when I am not there... When I am in any place, I disturb the silence of heaven and earth by my breathing and the beating of my heart.

Through my suffering I only felt the presence of a love analogous to that which one reads in the smile of a beloved face.

God can only be present in creation under the form of absence.