Quotes About Presence

Los grandes hombres, sólo con existir, emiten una luz que ilumina a quienes están a su alrededor, y cuando esta luz se apaga proyecta una sombra pesada, irremediablemente.

That's because you think about everything in words ... You can go around and around the same question all you like, and never find an answer. I know that's how you cope, how you get through time, so I've never thought it was immature, or unhelpful. But there's another way of doing it: to sit with an empty space, and just look at it, without thinking anything, just enduring. Some people can do that.

There was one thing that always disturbed me profoundly. Sometimes, no matter how intently I would be staring at him, I would have the feeling that Hitoshi wasn't there.

Qui il tempo non esiste. È come se fossimo separati dal resto del mondo. Ci siamo soltanto lui e io, fuori dal tempo e senza età. Il tempo si è fermato e io guardo Nakajima senza desiderare nulla in particolare. Sento che questa è la felicità.

For the first time, I saw the difference we made by being there for people over the years, in the background of their lives.

Descubrí que el cuerpo es un mero recipiente en el momento en que el alma deja de mirarte

Truly great people emit a light that warms the hearts of those around them. When that light has been put out, a heavy shadow of despair descends. Perhaps Eriko's was only a minor kind of greatness, but her light was sorely missed.

I grandi personaggi nel loro semplice esistere emettono luce e rischiarano lo spirito di chi sta loro accanto. Così, quando si spengono, inevitabilmente scende un'ombra pesante.

I also think the media's presence simply raised the question: If the media could get to these places, why couldn't the federal government?

Don't silent your heart. Make a date and show up.

She is an immense presence in the world. Tragedy and strength have so perfectly coalesced in her, as if one fed off the other. When she cries, it is not out of sorrow but out of a complex mass of emotions that address the trade-offs of life, the risks and the inevitable losses. Joy and sadness are two sides of the same thing.

There is never any valid reason for not being in full mental focus.

her anger a third presence in the room

There is a light that shines in the darkness, which is only visible there.

God shows up in whirlwinds, starry skies, burning bushes, and perfect strangers.

The miracle is not to walk on water but on the earth. —Thich Nhat Hanh

I was so busy serving the Divine Presence that we never got any time alone anymore.

Whoever you are, you are human. Wherever you are, you live in the world, which is just waiting for you to notice the holiness in it. So welcome to your own priesthood, practiced at the altar of your own life. The good news is that you have everything you need to begin.

I can begin to love the dried ink marks on the page more than I love the encounters that gave rise to them. If I am not careful, I can decide that I am really much happier reading my Bible than I am entering into what God is doing in my own time and place, since shutting the book to go outside will involve the very great risk of taking part in stories that are still taking shape.

Most of us spend so much time thinking about where we have been or where we are supposed to be going that we have a hard time recognizing where we actually are. When someone asks us where we want to be in our lives, the last thing that occurs to us is to look down at our feet and say, "Here, I guess, since this is where I am.

Or I can set a little altar, in the world or in my heart. I can stop what I am doing long enough to see where I am, who I am there with, and how awesome the place is.

NOT EVERYONE is able to walk, but most people can, which makes walking one of the most easily available spiritual practices of all. All it takes is the decision to walk with some awareness, both of who you are and what you are doing. Where you are going is not as important, however counterintuitive that may seem.

As much as I love the written word, I am aware of the ways this love removes me from the world.

When you live in God, your day begins when you lose yourself long enough for God to find you, and when God finds you, to lose yourself