Quotes About Presence

you prepare for a pitch, meeting, speech, or negotiation, the goal is to know your material so well that you are free to be in the moment.

awareness changes the situation; any action carried out with awareness is transformed through awareness itself.

My experiment with surrender had taught me to always be present in the current moment and do my best to not allow my personal preferences to make decisions for me.

Spirituality is not about being fixed; it is about God's being present in the mess of our unfixedness. (Messy Spirituality)

Think about how many of us have wondered why we don't fit, why our faith doesn't stabilize us, why we seem so out of sync with most of the world. Genuine faith is the isolating force in our lives that creates tension wherever we go. To put it another way, faith is the unbalancing force in our lives that is the fruit of God's disturbing presence.

Speed damages our souls because living fast consumes every ounce of our energy. Speed has a deafening roar that drowns our the whispering voices of our souls and leaves Jesus as a diminishing speck in the rearview mirror.

Tout bruit passager est marqué d'hallucination, puisqu'il ne laisse pas de traces, et tout son peut retentir dans l'éternité d'un passé composé de l'écoute.

La présence d'une voix humaine structure l'espace qui la contient.

When I dance, I dance; when I sleep, I sleep; yes, and when I walk alone in a beautiful orchard, if my thoughts drift to far-off matters for some part of the time for some other part I lead them back again to the walk, the orchard, to the sweetness of this solitude, to myself.

Wie overal is, is nergens.

Mi estatura está algo por bajo de la media: este defecto no es solamente feo, sino incómodo, principalmente para los que tienen mando o ejercen cargos, pues la autoridad que procura la presencia hermosa y la corporal majestad les faltan.

the sense that they were not on the same page—that they needed different things at this crucial time—entered the car like a discomfiting presence.

The best listening, Elsa said, was silence dilated by love and attention.

She was a truth that had filled his every moment.

I'm always where I'm supposed to be. - Aunt Polly

Some people have a gift for making you feel okay, just by the fact of their presence.

She was magnificent. She wasn't so much a person as an event, a gigantic presence.

We recall that the warping of the bedsheet was determined by the presence of the rock. Einstein summarized this analogy by stating: The presence of matter-energy determines the curvature of the space-time surrounding it.

What I want is to hold you like a bell holds space between the hours.

They are living in the moment. They are not ashamed of the past; they are not worried about the future. Little children express what they feel, and they are not afraid to love.

If you live in a past dream, you don't enjoy what is happening right now because you will always wish it to be different than it is.

The real you is still a little child who never grew up. Sometimes that little child comes out when you are having fun or playing, when you feel happy, when you are painting, or writing poetry, or playing the piano, or expressing yourself in some way. These are the happiest moments of your life — when the real you comes out, when you don't care about the past and you don't worry about the future. You are childlike.

You are alive, so take your life and enjoy it. Don't resist life passing through you, because that is God passing through you. Just your existence proves the existence of God. Your existence proves the existence of life and energy.

Just to be alive is enough.