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Quotes About Presence

Some things never leave a person: scent of the hair of one you love, the texture of persimmons, in your palm, the ripe weight.
~ Li-Young Lee
I walk through the seasons and always the birds are singing and screaming and keening for love When you're with me it seems so absurd that I should be jealous of the jay and the dove.
~ Maggie Stiefvater
Pay attention; don't let life go by you. Fall in love with the back of your cereal box.
~ Jerry Seinfeld
I'll be inside the one who holds you. And then I won't be.
~ Francesca Lia Block, Wasteland
love is like Someone is camping in your head
~ Helen Fisher
My precious child, I love you and will never leave you Never, ever, during your trials and testings. When you saw only one set of footprints, It was then that I carried you.
~ Margaret Fishback
Perhaps we always want the person we love, to have the existence of a ghost.
~ Adolfo Bioy Casares
Whenever Beauty looks, Love is also there.
~ Rumi
In Samadhi, that very deep state of meditation, you are given energy and long-lasting bliss. It carries you higher and higher until your very presence radiates love
~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
When we love anyone with our whole hearts, life begins when we are with that person; it is only in their company that we are really and truly alive.
~ William Barclay
Looking at everything through your phone is only numbing your perception - it does not really enhance your experience of life in any way.
~ Jaggi Vasudev
Love is not of the mind, it is not in the net of thought, it cannot be sought out, cultivated, cherished; it is there when the mind is silent and the heart is empty of the things of the mind.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
Of course the sad truth is that if we are not present to the moment, our true love could come and go and we wouldn't even notice.
~ Joshua Waitzkin
They are living in the moment. They are not ashamed of the past; they are not worried about the future. Little children express what they feel, and they are not afraid to love.
~ Miguel
Being in love means seeing the Beloved all around me.
~ Ram Dass
All human desire is poised on an axis of paradox, absence and presence its poles, love and hate its motive energies.
~ Anne Carson
Love can be seeing that here we are and there's this world here.
~ Bill Murray
Love is a choice -- not simply, or necessarily, a rational choice, but rather a willingness to be present to others without pretense or guile.
~ Carter Heyward
We are united to Him, we are one, and it is when His Passion becomes real to us, through experience and love, that we grow aware of His presence in us.
~ Caryll Houselander
Even though there may be times It seems I'm far away Never wonder where I am 'Cause I am always by your side.
~ Celine Dion
There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person.
~ Fred Rogers
Nothing can be delicious when you are holding your breath.
~ Anne Lamott
Where there is love, there is God also.
~ Leo Tolstoy
O Love, O pure deep Love, be here, be now, be all.
~ Rumi