Quotes About Presence

How you can already miss someone when you are in the same room with them, I have no idea. But I do.

And she knows how to come into a home and not step on the toes of a ghost.

S? te bucuri de clipa prezent? înseamn? s? accep?i cu bucurie cine e?ti în acel moment.

Your life is your practice. Your spiritual practice does not occur someplace other than in your life right now, and your life is nowhere other than where you are. You are looking for answers, insight, and wisdom that you already possess. Live the life in front of you, be the life you are, and see what you find out for yourself.

Attention is the most concrete expression of love. What we pay attention to thrives. What we do not pay attention to withers and dies. What will you pay attention to today?

On a perfect day in your perfect little world (and it's always perfect) there is breakfast time, playtime, lunchtime, nap time, snack time, dinnertime, bath time, story time, and bedtime. There is time for everything when you are the timekeeper.

Now is the only cure for then.

You have to step through the gate, the false barrier of your critical mind, to see all the ways we habitually reject the very place our lives have landed us. And then, we have to stop plotting an escape. That's what practice is for: staying put.

You can't fill a hole that doesn't exist.

The world doesn't need another wanderlusting soul seeker. The world needs a homemaker - me - to make my home within it.

Can you give yourself totally to the reality of your life and its unknowable outcome?

We had taken her for granted until she was no longer there, like an ancient tree you don't truly see until it is felled, and then only from the empty space in the sky do you suddenly grasp its stature.

He didn't just occupy space; he saturated it. The room had been full of books before, now it was full of him.

I'm the one who will always watch over you. Always be there to fuck you back to your senses when you need it, the one who will never let you die.

Yesterday was a memory. Tomorrow was a hope. Today was another day to live and do one's best to love

You & I are here but the wind is everywhere. Cast no words upon it you don't wish followed back to you.

Her absence in my life was so painful that it was a presence.

The other day upon the stair, I saw a man who wasn't there. He wasn't there again today; how I wish he'd go away!" ~Gabrielle O'Callaghan towards Adam Black

You will not look at me," she heard him say to the valets. "You will see only her." A silence. Then, "And you will not look at her breasts.

I'm usually so excited by the life I'm living I forget to take pictures.

Just like that. Blink of an eye, if I'd blinked. I hadn't. He'd vanished

expected—"  He inhaled a deep breath.  "We only

Focusing techniques that enhance attentiveness (such as mindfulness meditation) help to increase appreciation for the simple blessings of life and banish incompatible thoughts from consciousness. For that reason, celebrating the ordinary is a practice that requires paying attention. Embrace the temporary. Live in the moment. Be grateful for all the little things. Let your eyes linger on what's right in front of you.

I was starting to realize how much the presence of a child could make adults act more like adults.