Quotes About Presence

What friends or kindred can be so close and intimate as the powers of our soul, which, whether we will or no, must ever bear us company?

Someone's energy and aura and soul are so much more important - they don't compare to what you have on.

Presents don't really mean much to me. I don't want to sound mawkish, but - it was the realization that I have a great many people in my life who really love me, and who I really love.

For the next week, try the best you can to pay attention to sounds. You will start hearing all these sounds coming in. Once you let them in, you've already done the first and most critical thing, you've honored that information by including it. And by doing that, you've actually changed the world.

I realize I never stand out in a room unless I'm feeling balanced, centered and happy. It sounds really corny but it's very, very true.

Personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit into that big black space where the audience is.

I hope we don't export conflict from this planet into the others. None of the paradigms that define us here on earth - the borders, the parochialism, the divide, should mar our presence in space.

I would say that the whole way that I have approached the body is as a space, not a thing - not an object to be improved, idealised or whatever, but simply to be dwelt in.

I give people a space to simply sit in silence and communicate with me deeply but non-verbally.

What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all.

Generally, we use light to illuminate other things. I like the thingness, the materiality of light itself. So it feels like it's occupying the space, making a plane, being something that was there, not just passing through. Because light is just passing through. I make these spaces that seem to arrest it for our perception.

You hold an absence at your center, as if it were a life.

It occurred to her that all the bad parts of life, the sad parts, the frightening ones, were meant to be offset by moments and memories like this. She had to be present in it, right here, right now.

The worst way to miss someone is to have them sitting right next to you and know you can never have them.

Whose are all these ghosts?" she said, smiling at a flustered-looking Geraldine. "Oh, " said Geraldine, "I think they might be mine...?

I wasn't ready for goodbye, not now, not yet. Stay with me tonight, please don't go just yet.

You think you're alone until you realize you're in it.Now fear is here to stay, love is here for a visit.

Being present here and now is the highest compliment you can pay to a woman in your life.

The moment you open yourself completely to the love that awaits your conscious embrace, you are no longer there to receive it.

His presence fogged my mind, warmed my blood, kept the darkness at bay – maybe because he was the darkness itself.

When once the Heart is awakened, every single moment 'in-time' is a treasure to beheld

Do not try to understand love, rather, stand in love and observe what happens around you.

Symphony of the airmy ear can hearmy only companiona rocking chairsilence is masterwishing you were here.

I felt significantly insignificant, as if my presence in the world, albeit small, was still necessary.