Quotes About Presence

Si vas por la vida traduciéndola mientras la observas, no la vivirás.

We don't need to know or prove anything. Just to be, to take a risk and enjoy your life, is all that matters.

Cuanto más te amas a ti mismo, más disfrutas de tu vida y más disfrutas de la presencia de todas las personas que te rodean.

in short, you sensed that she was there, Moscow, right there, around the turn, and about to heave herself upon you and engulf you.

She felt something warm and velvety by her leg. It was Behemoth.

How could she feel nostalgia when he was right in front of her? How can you suffer from the absence of a person who is present? You can suffer nostalgia in the presence of the beloved if you glimpse a future where the beloved is no more

We all need someone to look at us. We can be divided into four categories according to the kind of look we wish to live under . . . The fourth category, the rarest, is the category of people who live in the imaginary eyes of those who are not present. They are the dreamers.

It was time laid bare, time in and of itself, time at its most basic and primal, and it forced me to call it by its true name (for now I was living pure time—pure, vacant time) so as not to forget it for a moment, keep it constantly before me, and feel its weight.

Es que hasta la alegría que produce la presencia del hombre a quien se ama se siente mejor a solas. Si la presencia fuera de el continua, sólo estaría presente en su constante transcurrir. Detenerla sólo es posible en los ratos de soledad

Actually, he had never before looked at the scenery. He had always driven toward a goal, to arrange or discuss something, and for him the world's space had become a negative, a waste of time, an obstacle slowing down his activity.

Es posible que no seamos capaces de amar precisamente porque deseamos ser amados, porque queremos que el otro nos de algo (amor), en lugar de aproximarnos a él sin exigencias y querer sólo su mera presencia

Es posible que no seamos capaces de amar precisamente porque deseamos ser amados, porque queremos que el otro nos dé algo (amor), en lugar de aproximarnos a él sin exigencias y querer sólo su mera presencia.

Forse non siamo capaci di amare proprio perchè desideriamo essere amati, vale a dire vogliamo qualcosa (l'amore) dell'altro invece di avvicinarci a lui senza pretese e volore solo la sua semplice presenza.

Možda nismo u stanju da se volimo upravo zato što želimo da budemo voljeni, tj zato što od onog drugog tražimo nešto (ljubav), umesto da mu prilazimo bez zahteva i želimo samo njegovu prisutnost. - Nepodnošljiva lako?a postojanja, Milan Kundera

Si nous sommes incapables d'aimer, c'est peut-être parce que nous désirons être aimés, c'est-à-dire que nous voulons quelque chose de l'autre (l'amour), au lieu de venir à lui sans revendications et ne vouloir que sa simple présence.

Ležal je poleg Kamile, vedel je, da jo neizmerno ljubi, toda v mislih ni bil prisoten. Božal jo je po licu, kot da bi jo božal iz neizmerne daljave, iz nekaj sto kilometrov velike razdalje.

The darkness is the deepening shadow of your presence; the silence a process in the metabolism of the being of love.

Devotion is love overflowing. Even when there is nobody, it is overflowing - to things, to tables, to chairs, to walls. It is just overflowing, it is not a question of to whom.

Desire disappears as you become more and more aware. When awareness is one hundred percent, there is no desire at all.

I hang out with my guru in my heart. And I love everything in the universe. That's all I do all day.

And then the witness, if you go down into the witness, that has the spiritual being. Down there, in your soul, you'll get far more love than you ever got out there.

So I'm all of love that could make it today.

We must love all facts, not for their consequences, but because in each fact God is there present.

There is only one immediate question: Where is God? The immediate answer is: God is where My heart's love-breath is.