Quotes About Presence

And get this, I'm with you. Don't stop talking to me, please. It's as important as if we were the only people alive . . . .

Or music heard so deeply That it is not heard at all, but you are the music While the music lasts.

Who is the third who walks always beside you? When I count, there are only you and I together But when I look ahead up the white road There is always another one walking beside you Gliding wrapt in a brown mantle, hooded I do not know whether a man or a woman —But who is that on the other side of you?

As God's presence made the tabernacle holy, so too the presence of the Holy Spirit sanctifies believers. Elsewhere

Not the intense moment Isolated, with no before and after, But a lifetime burning in every moment.

Quick now, here, now, always-- A condition of complete simplicity (Costing not less than everything)

Distracted from distraction by distraction

music heard so deeply That it is not heard at all, but you are the music While the music lasts.

The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence

Because I know that time is always time And place is always and only place...

At the still point, there the dance is.

The lady of situations.

Your shadow at morning striding behind you Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you;

Who is the third who walks always beside you? 360 When I count, there are only you and I together But when I look ahead up the white road There is always another one walking beside you Gliding wrapt in a brown mantle, hooded I do not know whether a man or a woman —But who is that on the other side of you?

I thought that if I died To you, I who had only been a ghost to you, You might be able to find the road back To a time when you were real -

You are here to kneel.

Who is the third who walks always beside you?

La llum, el recordatori visible de la llum invisible.

I not a person, in a world not of persons But only of contaminating presences.

Who is the third that walks always beside you? When I count there are only you and I together.

One should treasure those humdrum tasks that keep the body occupied but leave the mind and heart unfettered

Snowbébé, Snowbébé... These days...your memories of me have left you too, haven't they? My voice reaches you no more. You look wonderful, Snowbébé—so strong and valiant. Fight on, with your tail held high! I'm always right here. Always watching everyone from up here... Snowbébé, Snowbébé... Snowbébé, Snowbébé...

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone. —George Eliot

Reflect as if you have all of time, even when time is short.