Quotes About Presence

And we kept dancing. It was the only time all day that I really wanted the clock to stop. And just be there for a long time.

Because I was standing in the tunnel and I was really there. And that was enough to make me feel infinite.

The feminine comes to us in nature. Go outside. Look at the amazing waves of green, of lilacs, of blue mountains. We are in the presence of the manifestation right here. And she's reaching for you.

Many of us ordinary folk have tasted these moments of union - on the ladder, in the pond, in the jungle, on the hospital bed. In the yogic view, it is in these moments that we know who we really are. We rest in our true nature and know beyond a doubt that everything is OK, and not just OK, but unutterably well. We know that there is nothing to accept and nothing to reject. Life just is as it is.

The maddened four men followed frantically, for it is better to be in the presence of the awful than only within hearing. (The Black Dog)

Answered prayers aren't merely highly unlikely coincidences. They are fingerprints of a living, loving God who invites all of us to draw close to Him, the One who made us and "is not far from each one of us; for in Him we live and move and have our being

She knew with suddeness and ease that this moment would be with her always, within hand's reach of memory. She doubted if they all sensed it - they had seen the world - but even George was silent for a minute as they looked, and the scene, the smell, even the sound of the band playing a faintly recognisable movie theme, was locked forever in her, and she was at peace.

It don't matter if you believe in God Nick, he believes in you.

Do the day and let the day do you.

Just promise me you'll stop every once in a while and acknowledge the day, honey. It's the only one you'll have until tomorrow.

Horace, like all dogs, heard dead-voices quite often, and sometimes saw their owners. The dead were all around, but living people saw them no more than they could smell most of the ten thousand aromas that surrounded them every minute of every day.

Dead people put on weight, it seems to me; both in their flesh and in our minds, they put on weight.

Woody Allen was right: eighty percent of success is just showing up.

Enjoy every moment as much as you can because you never know when those memories will show their back to you.

We, the human race, are so accustomed to having instead of being. What wastage of the revelations and magic in every moment.

When you are searching, don't loose what you already have.

Take time to breathe in the aroma of Life.

I don't want to be a memory, I want to be a thought

She needed intimacy and a sense of partaking in, not just observing, real life.

To be awake is the refreshness of being.

Meaning is often found embedded in the silent moments of our lives when we can hear and see what matters most, the things audible and visible only to the spirit.

A past will never die. It's always there and always present as long as your living breathing and able to remember.

Find the gold in every moment.

I sink into it completely, letting everything else fall away so all that's left is this. A moment like a poem.