Quotes About Presence

I believe in being fully present," Morrie said. "That means you should be with the person you're with. When I'm talking to you now, Mitch, I try to keep focused only on what is going on between us. I am not thinking about something we said last week. I am not thinking of what's coming up this Friday. I am not thinking about doing another Koppel show, or about what medications I'm taking. "I am talking to you. I am thinking about you.

I seemed to slip in a time warp when I visited Morrie, and I liked myself better when I was there.

He told Koppel he knew when it would be time to say good-bye. "For me, Ted, living means I can be responsive to the other person. It means I can show my emotions and my feelings. Talk to them. Feel with them …" He exhaled. "When that is gone, Morrie is gone.

I do not want to die," she whispered. "You will not die." "I want to be with you." "You are.

We really don't experience the world fully, because we're half-asleep, doing things we automatically think we have to do.

I believe in being fully present.

to pay attention when your loved ones are speaking, as if it were the last time you might hear them.

I want to tell him to be more open, to ignore the lure of advertised values, to pay attention when your loved ones are speaking, as if it were the last time you might hear them.

but her absence was like a character in it.

proving heaven is always and forever around us, and no soul remembered is ever really gone.

He had a way of looking you in the eye and making you feel the world had stopped and you were all that was in it.

To know you're going to die, and to be prepared for it at any time... That way you can actually be more involved in your life while you're living.

Those moments are a gift.

Her dresses. Her shoes. A bottle of her perfume. You don't need much to remember someone, Francisco. Even one thing will do.

You might think a person who brings proof of heaven would be embraced. But even in the presence of a miracle, the human heart will say, 'Why not me?

Living without love was something he knew more about than any soul on Earth. The more Sarah spoke of loneliness, the clearer it became why he was there.

This is your house, Reb. You are in the rafters, the floorboards, the walls, the lights. You are in every echo through every hallway. We hear you now. I hear you still. How can I—how can any of us—let you go? You are woven through us, from birth to death.

I found I could share almost anything with Reb. He had a way of looking you in the eye and making you feel the world had stopped and you were all that was in it.

forever around us, and no soul remembered is ever really gone.

I believe in being fully present, Morrie said. That means you should be with the person you're with. When I'm talking to you now, Mitch, I try to keep focused only on what is going on between us. I am not thinking about something we said last week. I am not thinking of what's coming up this Friday. I am not thinking about doing another Koppel show, or about what medications I'm taking. I am talking to you. I am thinking about you.

When you are measuring life, you are not living it. I know.

When someone is in your heart, they're never truly gone. They can come back to you, even at unlikely times.

You cannot talk when you first arrive. He smiled. It helps you listen.

heaven is always and forever around us and no soul remembered is ever really gone.