Quotes About Presence

Self-reliance? Yes, but that first spring I had to learn dependency too. By crying for help and seeing help come from several directions, I began to learn what the village is all about: on the one hand, respect for privacy, and on the other, awareness of each other's needs. So, however solitary some of us may look to an outsider, we are in truth part of an invisible web and supported by its presence.

There is really only one possible prayer: Give me to do everything I do in the day with a sense of the sacredness of life. Give me to be in Your presence, God, even though I know it only as absence.

When I am alone the flowers are really seen; I can pay attention to them. They are felt as presences. Without them I would die. Why do I say that? Partly because they change before my eyes. They live and die in a few days; they keep me closely in touch with process, with growth, and also with dying. I am floated on their moments.

Anne lives each moment of the day as if it were the first and the last, with the whole of herself.

O, in this single hour I live, All of myself and do not move. I, the pursued, who madly ran, Stand still, stand still and stop the sun!

Be present in all things and thankful for all things.

In all the institutions I try to be present and accountable for all I do and leave undone. I know that eventually I shall have to be present and accountable n the presence of God. I do not wish to be found wanting.

I walk into a room Just as cool as you please, And to a man, The fellows stand or Fall down on their knees.

This bed yawns beneath the weight of our absent selves.

Every day I awaken I am grateful. My intent is to be totally present in that day. And laugh as much as possible.

When I walk in, they may like me or dislike me, but everybody knows I'm here

If you must look back, do so forgivingly. If you will look forward, do so prayerfully. But the wisest course would be to be present in the present gratefully.

If you want to know how important you are to the world, stick your finger in a pond and pull it out. Will the hole remain?

You don't have to nurse her. There are nurses here to do that. I only want you to hold her hand.

Watch for me and you will see That I'm present in the songs that children sing." People

La esencia se escapa, pero su aura permanece

If you must look back, do so forgivingly. If you must look forward, do so prayerfully. However, the wisest thing you can do is be present in the present gratefully.

You're not going to lose me. Never that. I'm always going to be here.

You never once looked away from your food. It was as if you were afraid it was going to get up and walk off your plate.

I need to be with him. I don't want him to think I left. He needs me.

Eyes," he snapped. "On me, Mia. Always on me. You don't come with your eyes closed. I want to see everything you have when I'm inside you. You don't ever shut me out.

Oh my soul, so may thy face be by me when I close my life indeed; so may I, when re alities are melting from me like the shadows which I now dis miss, still find thee near me . . . David Copperfield to Agnes, Charles Dickens

But I intend to enjoy the weeks I have left with you to the fullest. Because I know from my study of the philosophy of time, whatever is going to happen in the future is already unavoidable.

What is the sound of one hand clapping? What is the weight of a single grain of sand? The answer is equal to my interest in the message you are about to leave so make it short. -- Mitch Hertzog's voice mail message.