Quotes About Presence

they joined Facebook to stay in touch with friends across the country, and then ended up unable to maintain an uninterrupted conversation with the friend sitting across the table.

Thurston struck up conversations with strangers. He enjoyed food without Instagramming the experience.

At the end of the workday, shut down your consideration of work issues until the next morning—no after-dinner e-mail check, no mental replays of conversations, and no scheming about how you'll handle an upcoming challenge; shut down work thinking completely. If you need more time, then extend your workday, but once you shut down, your mind must be left free to encounter Kreider's buttercups, stink bugs, and stars.

moment can feel strangely flat if it exists solely in itself.

cultivating "concentration so intense that there is no attention left over to think about anything irrelevant, or to worry about problems.")

Face-to-face conversation is the most human—and humanizing—thing we do. Fully present to one another, we learn to listen. It's where we develop the capacity for empathy. It's where we experience the joy of being heard, of being understood.

The presence of the other party waiting for your next insight—be it someone physically in the same room or collaborating with you virtually—can short-circuit the natural instinct to avoid depth.

conversation is what counts—don't be distracted from this reality by the shiny stuff on your screen.

sacrificed to earn the small profit of occasional connections and new ideas that is earned by cultivating a significant presence on Twitter?

What is born at midnight, in the eeriest hours of God's presence, can beget our entire reason to be.

The only true currency in this bankrupt world are the moments you share with someone when you're uncool.

The only true currency in this bankrupt world is the moments we share with one another when we're uncool.

Even so, [...] in the silence after a winter storm has ceased to howl, in the soft whisper of a morning snowfall, in the way the moonlight sparkles over new-fallen snow, you can feel when she has been near by, ever searching. You can sense the presence of the Winter Child.

He stood in front of her and told her he'd come, not to climb her tower but to shelter it. In his clumsy way, he was like a prince who arrived with sweaty armpits and bad hair. At least I'm here, he might have said. That's better than nothing. And it was.

My mom and dad - they were always there. They were always on the set. They focused on our family life. The entertainment business wasn't the end-all. They weren't out to get the next big paycheck or the next big movie. It was about 'What can we do as a family.'

Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness. James Thurber

Love is not dependent on someone or something outside of you. One chooses to be Love in each moment as the moment unfolds, regardless of what happened in that moment.

Aunque a ratos de olvides de mi, ingrato elctor, yo sigo manejando los hilos. Estoy al acecho detrás de las palabras y guío tus pasos -y también tus emociones- a través de esta historia. Pero sigo aquí y cuando me convenga apareceré, sin que tú puedas evitarlo.

Outta Da' Blue We all have experiences that are sudden occurrences. When the..."Where'd that come from" question arises, we ask others for input but sooner or later we should answer it ourselves. Being "blind sided" is being caught of guard. That's not always a not so good event. I was " blindsided" by Judy's presence. That was a good thing. When we choose to be of aware mind and flexible to changes, we are more enabled to handle... Da' outta da' blues as they surely occur. KnowyerLoved, CWD

By slowing down at the right moments, people find that they do everything better: They eat better; they make love better; they exercise better; they work better; they live better.

Modern man can't see God because he doesn't look low enough.

Wherever I go, may I learn and love as much as I can in every moment. Wherever I am, may I be open to inspiration and truth.

I allowed myself one more thought. Maybe, just maybe, everything was pretty fine, just the way it was. Tank lived that way. Why not me?

I think everything is happening all the time, but if you don't put yourself in the path of it, you miss it.