Quotes About Presence

como un gato que mira fijo pero se ve que está por completo en otra cosa; que es otra cosa.

Viata, ca un comentariu despre ceva ce nu putem cuprinde si care se afla aici, la un pas de saltul pe care nu-l facem.

Vos crees que estás en esta pieza pero no estas. Vos estás mirando la pieza, no estás en la pieza

Salt and the center of the world have to be there, in that spot on the tablecloth.

Estábamos bien, y poco a poco empezábamos a no pensar. Se puede vivir sin pensar.

Lo que llamábamos amarnos fue quizá que yo estaba de pie delante de vos

Llegó a creer que la continua presencia de la Maga lo rescataría de divagaciones excesivas

Ahora voy a pensar en ti, querida, solamente en ti toda la noche. Voy a pensar solamente en ti, es la única manera de sentirme a mí mismo, tenerte en el centro de mí mismo como un árbol, desprenderme poco a poco del tronco que me sostiene y me guía...

Above all else, their eyes obsessed me. In the standing tanks on either side of them, different fishes showed me the simple stupidity of their handsome eyes so similar to our own. The eyes of the axolotls spoke to me of the presence of a different life, of another way of seeing.

Un tráfico secreto ordena este desorden, ten confianza y espera. Verás, oirás, perfumarás tu cara con las presencias que derrama esta constelación de sangre.

Mis dioses están en la tierra, no en otro lado.

Don't look now, but there's one too many in this room and I think it's you.

Love happened. Love came to show you that you could be more than you could ever imagine, because love forced you out of the narrows of yourself and thrust you into a vastness that stretched from one end of time to the other. Nothing mattered except being in the presence of love, the greatest beauty of all.

WELCOMING ANGELS In the arduous simplicity of this moment I open my heart, mind, and soul to stillness. In the deeper quiet I sense the greater Life that is my life. I do not live only; I am lived. I do not breathe only; I am breathed. I am not only the one I appear to be but also the One who appears as me. —rabbi rami m. shapiro

Let's just breathe together until the last breath

They were like a vision, they had slipped into eternity, a zone beyond time. There and not there, a presence unseen but felt, like stars in the daytime sky.

As long as we remember a person, they're not really gone.

We can't see the ocean through the haze, but we can hear its susurrations on the shore below, feel its misty presence on our skin, imagine the way it fills up the horizon and how it, like fog, shrouds the earth's body, reflecting light on the surface but remaining impenetrably dark beneath, down in the deep soul of the world.

When I'm with you the world stops spinning for a moment and I lose myself completely."-Master Noah to his submissive Emilia

Just breathe. Ten tiny breaths … Seize them. Feel them. Love them.

Beginning to sense his call to preach boldly in dangerous situations even though he was young and slight, the author agreed to go only if God would give him a particular sense of His presence. The next morning, the author says it was as if God took out his human eyes and replaced them with God's own because he saw other people so much more vividly.

Lifting your eyes from the things of this world is an activity that must begin WHERE YOU ARE.

Prayer is waiting before Him and meditating long enough in His presence until our hearts are touched and moved with His concerns and burdens, so that we become channels for Him to work through.

just throw away all thoughts of imaginary things, and stand firm in that which you are.