Quotes About Presence

I'd much rather be in the world than in some ivory tower somewhere.

A tennis racket lurks in my earliest memories like a sick relative who had come to live with us. When I look at my baby pictures, there it is, resting in my crib in the place of a rattle or chew toy.

Holding hands, for example, is a way to remember how it feels to say nothing together.

Breath is aligned with both body and mind and it alone can bring them together.

So awareness and enjoying this life can grow together simultaneously. And this is my vision of the whole man.

We say very little, for we do not need to. We are silent together, each in her own world, knowing the other is just at her back.

The true test is wonwhen being togetherwithout saying a wordis everything.

Barefoot travel allows you to get the true feel of a place.

Lord, make me see thy glory in every place.

Listen--are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?

And remember, no matter where you go, there you are.

When you are everywhere, you are nowhere. When you are somewhere, you are everywhere.

You need not even listen, just wait...the world will offer itself freely to you, unmasking itself.

To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while. Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Who is everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.

The fastest way to travel is to be there already.

No matter where you go, there you are. (Uriel to Harry Dresden)

My witness is the empty sky.

If we go somewhere on foot, we know the way perfectly, whereas if we go by car or airplane, we are hardly there at all. It becomes merely a dream.

You don't need a vacation when there's nothing to escape from.

One must stand stiller than still. On reverse time travel.

I aimlessly travel, meaning I have no agenda other than to get small in the world, be quiet and observe people.

Around me the trees stir in their leaves and call out, Stay awhile.

To return to my own trees, I went among them often, acknowledging their presence with a touch of my hand against their trunks.