Quotes About Presence

Very simply, for the mind, absence can be a catalyst for presence.

All I can say is that every time I'm with him, she's there. She walks through every game I play with him. She whispers behind me every time I talk to him. When we draw, she's there. When we build blocks, she's there. When I scold him, she's there. Whenever I look up, she's there.

I know, but he must have felt it that way, that evil was an emptiness, a lack of something, not a presence.' He turned his head fast and looked at me. 'That's what desire is, isn't it? The lack of something.

The page can resurrect what's lost and what's dead, what's not there anymore and what was never there.

Alone, I was strident and articulate in a way I could never be when I faced him. His presence made me shrink, and though it irritated me, I also looked forward to that sensation of being dwarfed, couldn't wait to sit beside him in his office again.

A child's true independence is the product of a strong, reassuring parental presence, and it is that presence that we take with us when we walk out the door for good.

But I missed Ruth terribly, and I understood once she was gone how much her presence colored mine. Ruth was the heroine of her own life story, and when we were together, she made me the heroine of mine. She gave daily hardships the stature of romance and drama.

It wasn't until I was living with Violet that I saw how bizarre my life had been with Lucille. Violet's so present, so vital. She grabs me all the time and tells me she loves me. Lucille never said that." Bill stopped talking. "Not once." He looked up from the screwdriver. "For years, day in and day out, I lived with a fictional character, a person I'd invented.

When you love someone, the best you can offer is your presence.

We only deliberately waste time with those we love -- it is the purest sign that we love someone if we choose to spend time idly in their presence when we could be doing something more 'constructive.

Make the decision to love this day, this place, this moment, this special experience of life with the people around you. And there will be so very much to love.

People have fallen in love with words and lost the world. It's time to regain it.

The person who makes all cares into one care the care for simply staying present will be cared for by that presence which is creative love.

I love hearing my audience breathe.

If ever you want to touch the hand and the heart of God Almighty, you can do it through the body of someone you love. Anytime. Anywhere. Without no middleman.

I love you and I'm here for you.

You are so near to my thoughts and my heart yet so far from my body and my arms... I once loved the whole world because you were in it.

Seeking love keeps you from the awareness that you already have it—that you are it.

When you start having lunch and actually eating, it's already over.

There is One Infinite Mind which of necessity includes all that is, whether it be the intelligence in man, the life in the animal, or the invisible Presence which is God.

Joy has come to live with me. How can I be sad? I do so love Thy presence, which is joy within me.

Love is a collection of moments where you were really there with somebody. A child, a lover, a friend, yourself.

I confess it, I love the camera. When it's not on me, I'm not quite alive.

O Jesus, here present in the Holy Eucharist, Thy Heart is all aglow with love for me! Thou dost call me, Thou dost urge me to come to Thee.