Quotes About Presence

Tayven would be good for you. He possesses rare qualities. He could heal you utterly. Just his light, his presence. He is a balm to me, but I am not a greedy man. He does not love me as a lover should, nor I him. Yet he deserves love. He has so much to give.

At one time, a sacred flame burned in this place, and its influence still prevails. You have walked through its memory and it has changed you.

It's an intrusion, isn't it, that presence in your head. Continual mental rape.

A dull ache in her breast was the invading presence of her love for Valraven. She could not speak these words without thinking of him. He was the sea inside her.

Her gaze was without heat, but held the power and might of the ocean itself.

In the manner of young males finding themselves in the presence of a superior speciman of their kind, who was clearly a member of a different youth culture to their own, they began to make insulting remarks, which grew even louder as they approached the car.

In my heart, I'd worried that the presence of the Metatronim would follow me back to Taparak and haunt my dreams forever. It did not happen that way, exactly.

Mary knew God loved her. From the moment Gabriel appeared to her, Mary has a distinct sense that God's presence was with her and His hand upon her. She didn't understand everything that was happening, but she was certain that God would be with her through it all.

She'd invited Oskan to the Yule Feast. Or rather, she'd sent a royal command ordering his presence on the twenty-first day of Icemas.

In the stillness of your presence, you can feel your own formless and timeless reality as the un-manifested life that animates your physical form.

my home; it would be comforting to know you are there. Manolo and the

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The greatest gift we can give one another is rapt attention to one another's existence.

Satisfaction comes from giving up wishing I was somewhere else or doing something else.

Ghosts don't haunt us. That's not how it works. They're present among us because we won't let go of them.

Ghosts don't haunt us. That's not how it works. They're present among us because we won't let go of them." "I don't believe in ghosts," I said, faintly. "Some people can't see the color red. That doesn't mean it isn't there," she replied.

The unasked-for gift of being with people at the end of their lives...is a simple but profound appreciation of the here and now of life itself.

Sun, rain, snow, wind. Every day is a good day to be present.

Did you ever walk into a room and forget why you walked in I think that's how dogs spend their lives.

I'm not real, I'm just like you. You don't exist in this society. If you did your people wouldn't be seeking equal rights. You're not real, if you were you'd have some status among the nations of the world. So we are both myths. I do not come to you as a reality, I come to you as the myth because that is what black people are: myths. I came from a dream that the black man dreamed long ago. I'm actually a presence sent to you by your ancestors.

Stop thinking that meditation is anything special. Stop thinking altogether.

For those who had known the couple in the time of their rapture, her absence from his funeral at the Church of the Madeleine on October 30, 1849, felt more like a haunting presence.

So much of what they do, with Mr. Kingsley, is restraint in the name of release. It seems they have to throttle their emotions to have complete access to them. Access to one's emotions = presence in the moment. Acting = responding with authentic emotion under made-up circumstances.

The only thing I could be better at is to be around more. Other than that, I'm a great dad. I come to the soccer games and teach her stuff, go over her homework with her every night; we stay on the phone. I try to be as good as a dad as I can be.