Quotes About Presence

Drinking would shut down my seeing and my hearing and my feeling," she used to say. "Why would I want to be in the world if I couldn't touch the world with all of my senses intact?

Spiritually speaking, everything that one wants, aspires to, and needs is ever-present, accessible here and now - for those with eyes to see.

Local people do want to see more police on the streets.

What I have learned over the years is to try to stay in the moment. I want to feel it all because I've realized nothing lasts.

With a parent, it's always guilt. You want to be there, but you kind of also want to be here.

Active waiting means present fully to the moment, in the conviction that something is happening where you are and that you want to be present to it.

Zen taught me how to pay attention, how to delve, how to question and enter, how to stay with -- or at least want to try to stay with -- whatever is going on.

I feel like sometimes people on television shows can start taking things for granted, or they don't want to be here or something like that.

Whatever my life looks like, I want it to be real and big and full. I want when, if I get hit by a car, I want to know that I have deep and real friendships, people to visit me in the hospital.

People are running to and from class and I just want to yell, Slow down and wait for the world to catch up!

One of my mission statements with all of my art has been to stop the world for people. I want to stop the worrying and stop the world.

That's all anyone wants from anyone else, not love itself but the knowledge that love is there.

The Lord my pasture shall prepare, And feed me with a shepherd's care; His presence shall my wants supply, And guard me with a watchful eye.

His lips pressed against her forehead and she felt him smile against her skin. "Believe me...the only place in the world I want to be is wherever you are." -Grant Morgan

I'm old-school. I want to be there to drop off my daughter at school and pick her up.

No matter what, I want to experience a sense of peace while talking. As I look out into the audience, Ill remember to breathe and notice that at my core there is peace.

Ever since my daughter was born I feel the fleetingness of time. And I don't want to waste it on getting the perfect lip color.

I want you to notice is that-right here, right now-you're okay. You may be in pain, you may be in fear, you may be in grief. But you're here, you're surviving; this moment is okay.

Almost anything is too much. I am trying in my poems to have the reader be the experiencer. I do not want to be there. It is not even a walk we take together.

Sometimes you just feel so fortunate to be in the company that you're in and you just want to soak it all up.

Sometimes the presence of a camera is like opening a door, because many people want what Andy Warhol called "15 minutes of fame." But prostitutes don't want that.

What she mostly wanted, he learned, was the same thing many people want--someone to notice she was there.

All kids want from their dad is for them to be around - and to show up when they say they're going to show up.

I am living here and now. The blessing of my life is that I am totally concentrating on the present moment. And I want to be because there is nothing but the present moment.