Quotes About Presence

There just comes a point where you realize it is time to show up for your parents, no matter what has passed between you or how you were raised or how busy you are. You just have to show up.

Being alone had one advantage: undisturbed time. She used it to read her Bible and study and pray. And think. In some ways, asking Jesus into her heart had been the easy part. Now she wanted to discern how His presence should affect her daily life.

Neva closed her eyes and prayed aloud, asking God to kiss Belle's dreams with all things pleasant and awaken her in the morning with the reminder of His unwavering presence. Then she gave her daughter a hug and a kiss and tiptoed from the room.

What the devil are you doing here? (Morgan) I am sitting in a most uncomfortable chair. (Serenity)

I feel like a weed in the midst of Winter. 'Tis the sunshine of your smile that will bring back the Spring of my days. We arrive in four days. I hope you will grace me again with your presence. Yours, Morgan (Morgan's letter)

Hon, when someone's a true friend, there's no need to miss 'em." She patted her chest. "'Cause they're always right here.

And though at nine I wasn't sure what an "agent" was, I knew she must be extremely important to make even my parents nervous. Besides, I was afraid of anyone I didn't know, let alone someone hiding behind a shroud of smoke. My imagination began to get the best of me. It was like we were in the presence of the Wizard. Instead of "I am the Great and Terrible Oz," she was the Great and Terrible Agent.

I kept my life in a small room with pale blue walls and brought it back little presents from the world This is for you I would say This is for you

God is with you always. Simply turn your face to Him.

No one is truly lost when they remain in the hearts and minds of those wwho love them

he blessed again the gods of his fathers for bringing Kathryn back to him. He refused to think too far ahead. He'd already learned that to live in the future was folly, especially when the present held everything for which he could ask.

Just remember, we are the first Federation citizens to set foot on this world. Our presence here is a gift to us from those who came before; those who first braved unexplored space with a desire to expand their knowledge of the universe.

Everybody shows up, not to see their god, but to be seen.

Hope replaced fear. Light subsumed darkness. Strength, born of the power of this presence, mingled with Kathryn's own determination and reordered the last of her mangled body and soul, realigning them into all that she had once been. What she would now be was once again an open question.

Don't know about you, but I like taking up more space.

Why are you here?" "Because you never said goodbye.

One becomes vulnerable when one stops to think about winning, losing, taking advantage, impressing or disregarding the opponent. When the mind stops, even for a single instant, the body freezes, and free, fluid movement is lost.

Even if your eyes can no longer see, your eyes can no longer hear, your body can no longer move, your lips no longer able to speak, I shall stay by your side. I want to be with you (from Sleeping Bunny).

In the almost film-like flitting-by of modern life, a man needs something to tell him, from time to time, that he is still himself, and nothing can give him this assurance in so comforting a manner as the "four feet trotting behind".

A weapon was useful only if you had it in your hands.

But that (physical attractiveness), as the late great Irish poet and philosopher of beauty John O'Donohue helpfully distinguished, is glamour. I've taken his definition as my own, for naming beauty in all its nuance in the moment-to-moment reality of our days: beauty is that in the presence of which we feel more alive.

Listening is about being present, not just about being quiet.

If we can't face our losses, we can't be present either fully to everything that is. When people have cut off or not made peace with some part of themselves, they miss out on other aspects of life.

I've come to believe that our capacity to reach beyond ourselves—experiencing mystery or being present to others—is dependent on how fully we are planted in our bodies in all their flaws and their grace.