Quotes About Presence

Take a deep breath, open your eyes, and close the book.

Presents don't really mean much to me. I don't want to sound mawkish, but - it was the realization that I have a great many people in my life who really love me, and who I really love.

It is enough to be, nothing more is needed." The

The night itself is riddled with her, wide with her, and alive with her.

When awareness is grounded, we become aware of what is going on in our bodies in the space between our heads and our feet.

I don't want to die," A.J. says after a bit. "I just find it difficult to be here all the time.

I am here with you, his body seemed to say, but I acknowledge that we are separate beings.

As he said to Sam, "If I've done the work in the scenes before I die, if I've made a real impression, they'll feel me in the scenes I'm not in anyway.

Showing up is what counts, A.J.

The two of them had easily slipped back into the rhythms of their friendship, and they saw each other several times a week for movies, meals, games. He felt fortified in her presence. His arguments and observations were sharper.

The way you are now, showing up. Showing up is what counts

El cuerpo no sintió dolor pero solo porque el cuerpo no estaba.

Let her know you're there. And if you can manage it, bring her a cookie, a book, a movie to watch. Friendship," Marx said, "is kind of like having a Tamagotchi.

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone. —GEORGE ELIOT, Scenes of Clerical Life

I mean it today. And tomorrow, it will be today again, and I will mean it for that today. It's always today, Pearl. Don't worry about tomorrow, because it's always today, and every today we have, I will mean it. I will not leave you. Not willingly. Dont't make my mistake. Let me unmake it. Don't throw me away.

When there is an openness to fear, where can it be found?

If spiritual practices serve the purpose of stopping the mind, they are strong allies. But if they deepen the belief that you are someone in particular who practices something in particular in order to get something that you do not believe is already here, then they are an obstruction.

Fear, anger, grief, or despair only exists when linked to a story! Yes, this is an amazing, simple, yet profound discovery. It is huge! You can actually recognize that what you are running away from does not, in truth, finally exist, and what you are running toward is already always here.

To which you manifest is before you.

that which we manifest is before us;

That which you manifest is before you,

As a neutrino has no mass or electrical charge and can pass through the planet in a blink, so this bag lady's existence can pass through this world; she, like the neutrino, is a ghost, yet both are real, both exist and have presence, even if that presence is unseen or ignored.

The most important thing," he said, "is to be present in the face of fear.

what I'd done was allow my own reentry into the physical world.