Quotes About Presence

This is why one becomes a monk: to cultivate in every moment presence to the beauty of the world.

La perfection, la sainteté recherchée par les taoïstes, c'est l'union mystique avec le tao éternel: c'est 's'effacer vivant dans cette présence originelle et souveraine qui enveloppe tout sans être jamais enveloppé', dans le 'sans forme qui engendre toutes les formes, dans le tao qui possède une vie éternelle'. Et c'est atteindre, du même coup, l'immortalité.

Palabras. No hay manera de quitárselas de encima. No le dejan a una estar verdaderamente sola.

La Guapa es presencia, esencia y perfume. No es sólo que la quiera, sino que, además, me cae bien.

Llámate cuerpo a secas, no te esmeres en ser de otras palabras el reflejo, la oscura huella, su inasible sombra.

Qué es! ¡Qué és! ¡Qué es! Se ve. Se siente. El pueblo está presente.

A veces se hacía presente con un silbido, que decía algo así como «Fufichu». Si en un momento dado no sabía quién estaba en la casa gritaba: «¡Alguno!» Pero con el correr del tiempo alguno se volvió nadie, y cerrados nuestros oídos a sus palabras nadie volvió a hacerle caso. La voz mandona de Lía sólo la oyeron entonces las paredes. O las vecinas.

We need to think about what cooking is, what context it takes place in and what its relationship to the world of art is. If there were criticisms of my presence at Documenta, that's a good thing because it means we were doing something new. Your mission in creating something artistic is to produce something new and polemical.

You can live your whole life in your brain and not experience what's around you. You go crazy that way.

In yourself right now is all the place you've got.

Some people make the sky more beautiful to gaze upon. They stay in our lives for awhile, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.

Although people feel blessed in the presence of a holy man who wants the world to be right and people to be happy, the holy man cannot make that happen.

It sometimes seems to us that some impression of those now dead must be left upon their familiar earthly surroundings. We saw them, on such a day, in such a spot, in such an attitude, smiling - or not smiling - and the impression of the scene is so deeply engraved upon our own hearts that we feel they must have left some more enduring trace, though invisible to mortal eyes.

I suddenly became conscious that, for the first time in my whole life, I was essential to somebody. I could not enter a room without realising that he was instantly aware of my presence; I could not leave a room without knowing that he would at once feel and regret my absence.

W]e are almost always in one place with our minds somewhere quite other.

A Collect for the Presence of Christ Lord Jesus, stay with us, for evening is at hand and the day is past; be our companion in the way, kindle our hearts, and awaken hope, that we may know you as you are revealed in Scripture and the breaking of bread. Grant this for the sake of your love. Amen.

When there is really nothing left to do or believe, except to remember, walking helps retrieve the absolute simplicity of presence, beyond all hope, before any expectation.

You don't walk to kill time but to welcome it, to pick off its leaves and petals one by one, second by second.

suele decir que caminar te «vacía la mente». Al contrario: andar te llena el espíritu de una consistencia distinta. No la de las ideas o las doctrinas, no en el sentido de una cabeza atiborrada de frases, citas y teorías, sino llena de la presencia del mundo. Esa presencia, al andar, se ha ido depositando en el alma a lo largo de todo el día,

And as we know from the pilgrimage diaries of Swami Ramdas, it is when we renounce everything that everything is given to us, in abundance. Everything: meaning the intensity of presence itself.

Humility is no substitute for a good personality.

No podía imaginarme que pudiese poseer una cualidad alegre: pertenecía a esa clase de individuos cuya presencia hace que todo salga mal.

My business in the Capital is concluded,' Tamarind explained. 'Kindly send a letter to Mr Kohlrabi's lodgings, telling him that I require his presence as soon as he is back in the city, then bring me a dish of tea, the latest issue of the Gazette and a bag of dead cats.

here in the drawing room, each lady quietly relaxed and became more real, expanding into the space left by the men. Without visibly changing, they unfolded, like flowers, or knives.