Quotes About Presence

I must have been assuming that without me there it would be all cobwebs and desolation.

The place was still there, present in the sunshine, instead of being hidden far away in darkness in the confines of some tragic opera.

Could one think so intensely of someone and not be visited?

He had for many years now been spared the demons, though he was constantly aware of their continued presence. He could hear them, as it were, moving behind the wall. They belonged to him and would doubtless go with him to the grave. His mind too, like David's, ran irresistibly to the horror.

Everything is full of gods

There had been anguish, fear, indecision, then gradually the brightness of her presence cast beforehand, obliterating all else. Then I was with her and there was strange blankness, and utter calm of delight. Suddenly, down into the furthest crannies of being all was well. It was all so strangely simple too, with a blameless simplicity as of childhood.

She would give ease to his too long wandering heart, and then he could live more fully in the world of other people, more able, because more happy, to give them his full attention.

It's not even like memory. It's all just there. All the time, Willy? Every hour, every minute.

Can one, in such a self-portrait, omit something which affected one's whole being and which one has thought of every day of one's life? 'Every day' exaggerates, but not much. I do not need to 'recall' Hartley, she is here. She is my end and my beginning, she is alpha and omega.

But no, she must be there, I felt, so charged with her presence was the image of that city which now rose up before me; and already in my mind I was walking with Anna along the Champs-Élysées, while the warm breeze of an eternal Parisian spring blew into our faces like drifting flowers the promises of a coming felicity.

But with the creature from worlds beyond space sitting in the midst of it

Valamilyen garanciára szükségem van. – Szavamat adom. – Ami, ugyebár, fölbecsülhetetlen érték? – hajolt meg gúnyosan Pherl –, de azért az ön jelenléte, ugyebár, mégiscsak nagyobb biztosítékot jelentene!

The dead don't go anywhere. They're all here. Each man is a cemetery. An actual cemetery, in which lie all our grandmothers and grandfathers, the father and mother, the wife, the child. Everyone is here all the time.

How is it possible, after all, that someone should simply vanish? How can someone who lived, loved, and wrangled with God and with himself just disappear? I don't know how and in what sense but they're here. Since time is an illusion, why shouldn't everything remain?

Qué hacer con esta felicidad que nos llega sin motivo especial, esta felicidad que no requiere nada para existir?

Affection is like the noonday sun; it does not need the presence of another to be manifest.

Estábamos tan próximos que no podíamos vernos, ambos absortos en ese rito urgente, envueltos en el calor y el olor que hacíamos juntos. Me

The wise man desires nothing; he does not judge, he makes no plans, he keeps his mind open and his

El afecto es como la luz del mediodía y no necesita la presencia del otro para manifestarse. La separación entre los seres también es ilusoria, puesto que todo está unido en el universo.

And I've gained spirituality. I'm aware that before, death was is the neighborhood. Now, it's next door, or in my house. I try to live mindfully and be present in the moment.

i fantasmi dell'immaginazione si trasformano in personaggi definiti, unici, con la loro voce, disposti a raccontarmi le loro vite se concedo loro tempo a sufficienza. Sono così sicura della loro presenza da stupirmi che nessun altro riesca a percepirli

Relájate. Solo vengo a respirar contigo.

talvez el tiempo no pasa, sino que nosotros pasamos a través del tiempo; tal vez el espacio está lleno de presencias de todas las épocas, como decía mi abuela, y todo lo que ha sucedido y lo que sucederá coexiste en un presente eterno.

There is no need to have a deep understanding of Zen.