Quotes About Presence

By the way he carried himself, you really thought that Bon Scott was immortal.

At the end of the day, be in the game as the game's ending. That's the most important part.

Whenever I am called upon to play, I always try to give my best and make sure that I can impose myself on the game.

When you see Zlatan up close, he's even more imposing than on the television. Zlatan is very, very big, very strong, and his control of the ball is incredible. It can seem like he's not there, and then he goes and scores the decisive goal.

You can always make an imprint on the game no matter what you do.

I'm a very anxious person, and it's hard for me to be in the moment. Improv demands that you be in the moment.

The rule of improvisation I took to heart was, 'Don't think.' I tend to over-think things, so that was a big lesson for me.

I know there are some actors who are just brilliant at improvising and brilliant at just being in the moment and doing it there and then. I'm not one of those actors.

I don't believe necessarily the past is in the past. It's eternal, it's all around us.

Living in the past or living in the future - those aren't real. The moment is now, and that's where safety and comfort and all that good stuff is.

I can disappear into things very easily. But with acting, you have to be in the moment, and it gives me this incredibly fulfilling emotion: being really present.

The cool breeze that ruffled her hair felt like something more than wind. 

Every painted image of something is also about the absence of the real thing. All painting is about the presence of absence.

In one way fear is also God's daughter, redeemed on the night of Holy Friday. She is not beautiful to look at -- oh no! -- ridiculed at times, at others cursed, disowned by everyone ... and yet, make no mistake about it, she is present at every deathbed--she is man's intercessor.

He believed that everything and everybody in the world was worthy of notice but this person beside him was something beyond that. To him her presence was as important as the world. And the stars around it. If she was an instance of the goodness in this world then passing through by her was miracle enough.

concentrating on a magnetized needle prevents one from participating in the real universe, seen and unseen, where a sailboat moves.

Et toi, Grand-mère, comment vas-tu ? - Moi ? J'existe. C'est déjà une occupation de chaque instant.

the force of her presence had the effect of diminishing everyone else's

the house breathes differently when Yazz isn't there

In the production of finite existence the first act was the evolution of the Memra, or the Word, which was the first point in the descending series of beings, and from whom in nine other degrees of manifestation emanated those forms which at once compose the universe and express the attributes and presence of its eternal ruler.

Every new thought suggestive or explanatory of it is crowned by him, and by it he forms a new heaven. It is said that whenever a man gives expression to such a word it ascends at once into the divine presence, who taketh and embraceth it and adorneth it with seventy crowns, all engraveth with his holy name.

Zazen is the elimination of distance between subject and object.

Bearing witness is not something to be done only at Auschwitz. When we bear witness to the unfolding of our daily lives, not shrinking from any situation that arises, we learn. We open to what is. And in that process, a healing arises.

Think! How the hell are you gonna think and hit at the same time?