Quotes About Presence

Often the hardest person to fight for is... yourself. But you must. Your heart is needed. You must be present and engaged in order to love well and fight on behalf of others. Without you, much will be lost." Chapter 11 "Warrior Princess

Plimpton was a presence. He looked for ways in which he could make himself ridiculous. That made him a great storyteller.

He sensed the presence of death, he sensed the presence of undying love: something broke open inside him, and he thought of the invisible woman, incorporeal and passionate, as one might think of distant music.

Time is helpless, he thought to himself, helpless in the face of our feelings. Nine years have passed, and not a note in her voice is different, not a nerve in my body hears her in any other way. Nothing is lost, nothing is past and over, her presence is as much of a tender delight now as it was then.

Lorsque j'ouvrais les yeux dans l'obscurité et que je te sentais contre mon flanc, je m'étonnais qu'il n'y eût pas d'étoiles au-dessus de moi, tant le ciel semblait présent.

He was sure of one thing only, and on this single security he built up the whole of his teaching: a living man, through his mere presence and through his personal influence, may do more to cure the sick than can any other remedy in the world. "Of all bodies in nature, none is so potent in its influence upon man as is the body of man himself.

Pero no te diste cuenta de mi presencia, ni mucho menos, aunque estaba cada noche en tu calle, tanto si nevaba como si soplaba ese viento vienés que parece que te corta al pasar.

Zaman nerede kald??" —"Zaman bizim içimizde

Cuando abría los ojos en la oscuridad y sentía que estabas a mi lado, me asombraba de no ver el firmamento por encima de nosotros, hasta tal punto me sentía como en el cielo. No, nunca me he arrepentido, amor mío, de aquella noche. Aún recuerdo cómo dormías, cómo sentía tu respiración, tu cuerpo, y cómo lloré de felicidad en la penumbra.

Daima senin etraf?ndayd?m, daima gergin ve hareketliydim; ama sen bunu, cebinde ta??d???n ve karanl?kta sab?rla saatlerini sayan ve duyulmayan kalp at??lar?yla sana e?lik eden ve milyonlarca t?k?rt?l? saniyesinden sadece bir tanesine aceleci bak??larla bakt???n saat zembere?ini hissetti?in kadar hissettin.

She could not be said to dislike Colonel Trumpet so much as not to notice he was there.

Resist the temptation to be someone once again. Allow yourself to be no one; allow your mind to be empty of thought, unfurnished, until the identities gradually filter back in. Notice the space between your identities and the awareness of them. Notice if a similar gap appears at other times during the day, an empty space that you may have ignored before but can now lean into and prolong. Continue to open to the openness.

Meditation increases awareness and sensitivity; as such, it can be an antidote to numbness and distraction.

of a thousand miles begins with a single step. In the case of meditation, this simple but essential step involves turning your mind away from its usual preoccupation with external events — or, just as often, with the story it tells you about external events — and toward your inner sensate experience. If you're like most people, you're so caught up with what's happening around you

The rat, which transported bubonic plague, and the louse, which carried typhus, were despised but accepted presences in almost every human society, although the latter could travel places (such as the Arctic) where even the rat couldn't survive.

Someone who has a similar confidence in their own inner reality, and who trusts that they go on existing whether or not anyone else is present, does not need to be constantly checking on their sense of self. They are, without much thinking about it, 'calm, restful, relaxed and feeling one with people and things when no excitement is around'.

Just because I'm not forever by your side doesn't mean that's not precisely where I want to be.

Once we stop asking ourselves to be happy or perfect or anything else other than what is simply true for us in the moment, we can more easily stop asking the same of others as well.

Only in the heart can one experience the divine presence of truth.

I tell the truth: your enemy is also your friend-his presence makes your life fuller and richer.

When one is able to overcome the romantic and emotional attitude, one discovers truth even in the kitchen sink.

This is the wonderful truth, my dear friends: the Word, which became flesh two thousand years ago, is present today in the Eucharist

You don't get to vote on what is. Have you noticed?

If you really want to feel the life, use not your umbrella! Touch the truth directly!