Quotes About Presence

Meaning and purpose come not from accomplishing great things in the world, but simply from loving those who are right in front of you, doing all you can with what you have, in the time you have, in the place where you are.

home is less a location than a discipline. It is a way of being, a domestic, considered attention to familiar routines and the small, essential details of everyday life. From now on, I promised myself, home would be wherever I was, not the place that I one day hoped it to be. I would create it by being present. I would try to do better.

It went against human nature to truly savor every moment and continually remain aware of all they had to be grateful for.

If you're sad…then he will come.

That's how you know you love someone, I guess, when you can't experience anything without wishing the other person were there to see it, too.

Folks do not want to see a body disappear before their very eyes. Not me at least.

You enjoy things less when you are always trying to control things instead of just living.

The knowledge that they existed, those phantoms that forever haunted the corner of the eye, was a form of haunting in itself.

The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.

A veces, una persona puede salvar a otra por el hecho mero de existir.

Sometimes, all you had to do was exist in order to be someone's saviour.

Sometimes, all you had to do was exist in order to be someone's savior.

Woody Allen once said that 90 percent of life is about showing up. Ninety percent of healing people in psychological pain is shutting up - at least long enough to let them bleed the truth. That sounds easy, but it isn't. (68)

Self-liberation' implies the instantaneous dissolution of whatever enters into awareness.

If your heart takes more pleasure in reading novels, or watching TV, or going to the movies, or talking to friends, rather than just sitting alone with God and embracing Him, sharing His cares and His burdens, weeping and rejoicing with Him, then how are you going to handle forever and ever in His presence...? You'd be bored to tears in heaven, if you're not ecstatic about God now!

Jazz is there and gone. It happens. You have to be present for it. That simple.

The mime must first of all be aware of this boundless contact with things. There is no insulating layer of air between the man and the outside world. Any man who moves causes ripples in the ambient word in the same way a fish does when it moves in the water.

It's great to be here. It's great to be anywhere.

I'm glad to be here. I'm glad to be anywhere.

But I've always felt very comfortable on stage, even if I screw up. It always felt like a dog, this is my turf, piss around it. While I'm here, nothing else can happen. All I can do is screw up. Otherwise, have a good time.

And from the earliest I always felt good on stage. You get nervous before you go up there before a lot of people, but to me the feeling was, let the tiger out the cage. Maybe that's just another version of butterflies. It could be. But I've always felt very comfortable on stage, even if I screw up. It always felt like a dog, this is my turf, piss around it. While I'm here, nothing else can happen. All I can do is screw up.

It's really good to be here and as I always say, it's really good to be anywhere!

If there's anything I can do- I know there probably isn't, but..." Just be here

Concentration is uniting the mind with one place, object, or idea for spiritual awakening.