Quotes About Presence

Keep it always with you that laughter who knock at your door and say: 'May I come in?' is not the true laughter. No! He is king, and he come when and how he like. He ask no person; he choose no time of suitability. He say: 'I am here.

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The memories are so close I feel your presence everywhere. And I see forward so clearly and sadly to a time when the memories will be distant. I won't be able to picture your painting things scattered on a flat rock in Ammoudi or your bare feet soaking up the sunshine on Valia's garden wall. Now I see them. Long after that I will remember them.

When we really want to hear, and be heard by, someone we love, we do not go rushing into noisy crowds. Silence is a form of intimacy. That's how we experience it with our friends and lovers. As relationships grow deeper and more intimate, we spend more and more quiet time alone with our lover. We talk in low tones about the things that matter... That is why Christ comes to us when our hearts and minds are still and silent.

When we discover the secret of being inwardly at worship while outwardly at work, we find that the soul's silence brings us to God and God to us. Silence takes us beyond the limits of consciousness and into the heart and mind and will of God.

Everyone who was gone was really still here.

One world at a time. —Thoreau, on his deathbed

Oh my God!" She hurried to him and swept him into her arms. Then she knelt on the floor in front of him and took his hands. "Where were you? Where did you go? I was so worried about you!

Traditionally—if such a contraction be allowed—any form of intellectual aim that did not take account of this antecedent, archetypal order of reality would have been considered all but invalid. Now, in many quarters, to give any sort of credence to its effective presence is likely to be seen as a sign of willful eccentricity.

Doing nothing when nothing is happening is no relaxation.

There is more to life than just increasing its speed.

Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond." – Rumi

Rumi says: 'die before you die'. It means live each moment fully. Then, when the moment dies, there is no pain or regret because you'd already lived it completely," said Zoya.

All is love...All is love. With love comes understanding. With understanding comes patience. And then time stops. And everything is now.

Sometimes just showing up for someone else is good enough. I

Instead of trying to "have" fun, focus on "being" fun. I

I cannot imagine how religious persons can live satisfied without the practice of the presence of GOD. For my part I keep myself retired with Him in the depth of centre of my soul as much as I can; and while I am so with Him I fear nothing; but the least turning from Him is insupportable.

That we should establish ourselves in a sense of GOD's Presence, by continually conversing with Him. That it was a shameful thing to quit His conversation, to think of trifles and fooleries.

Think often on God, by day, by night, in your business and even in your diversions. He is always near you and with you; leave him not alone.

We should fix ourselves firmly in the presence of God by conversing all the time with Him...we should feed our soul with a lofty conception of God and from that derive great joy in being his. We should put life in our faith. We should give ourselves utterly to God in pure abandonment, in temporal and spiritual matters alike, and find contentment in the doing of His will,whether he takes us through sufferings or consolations.

O my God, since thou art with me, and i must now, in obedience to thy commands, apply my mind to these outward things, i beseech thee to grant me the grace to continue in thy presence; and to this end do thou prosper me with thy assistance, receive all my works, and possess all my affections. (Bro. Lawrence implored His grace and offered to Him all his actions).

That we need only to recognize GOD intimately present with us, to address ourselves to Him every moment, that we may beg His assistance for knowing His will in things doubtful, and for rightly performing those which we plainly see He requires of us, offering them to Him before we do them, and giving Him thanks when we have done.

The King, full of mercy and goodness, very far from chastising me, embraces me with love, makes me eat at His table, serves me with His own hands, gives me the key of His treasures; He converses and delights Himself with me incessantly, in a thousand and a thousand ways, and treats me in all respects as His favorite. It is thus I consider myself from time to time in His holy presence.

Dr. Perry: That's a wonderful example of the glue of love. It is in the small moments, when we feel the other person fully present, fully engaged, connected, and accepting, that we make the most powerful, enduring bonds.