Quotes About Presence

"Drama" can not grow unless you feed it with your energy and presence. Turn around. Walk away. Let it go...

Do not confuse your SELF with your beliefs. Thoughts and feelings come and go. YOU remain.

Life is a gift. You are here as a guest. Appreciate your stay. Enjoy your being.

Life is full of "presents" if YOU are in the present.

Stillness is the absence of motion. There's no space for time to fly and no time for space to be. In stillness space and time are point-less.

Let us never forget to pray. God lives. He is near. He is real. He is not only aware of us but cares for us. He is our Father. He is accessible to all who will seek Him.

God lives. He is near. He is real. He is not only aware of us but cares for us. He is our Father. He is accessible to all who will seek Him.

But absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

One crucial thing to keep in mind as you read any Hebrew narrative is the presence of God in the narrative. In any biblical narrative, God is the ultimate character, the supreme hero of the story.

One reads Paul poorly who does not recognize that for him the presence of the Spirit, as an experienced and living reality, was the crucial matter for Christian life, from beginning to end.

manual of virtuous character traits that describes qualities to nurture in ourselves and to seek in our friends and lovers. At the top of the list would be kindness, a willingness to give of oneself to another. This most desirable of virtues governs all the others, including a capacity for empathy and love. Like other forms of art, we may find it hard to define, but when we are in its presence, we feel it.

I would imagine myself to be an empty vessel existing only to receive. As fully as possible. Without judgment.

Where ever I go, there I am. Drunk.

That is, nobody but angels: they are always on deck when there is a miracle to the fore...

Angels are never too distant to hear you.

Take time to smell the roses and eventually you'll inhale a bee.

I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance than I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn. The squirrels also grew at last to be quite familiar, and occasionally stepped upon my shoe, when that was the nearest way.

A precious – mouldering pleasure – 'tis – To meet an Antique Book – In just the Dress his Century wore – A privilege – I think – His venerable Hand to take – And warming in our own – A passage back – or two – to make – To Times when he – was young... His presence is enchantment – You beg him not to go – Old Volumes shake their Vellum Heads And tantalize – just so –

Breathe and you dwell in the here and now.

Our breathing is designed to help us release any tensions that have become so much a part of us that we no longer sense their presence.

When some men die it is as if you had lost your pen-knife, and were subject to perpetual inconvenience until you could get another. Other men's going is like the vanishing of a great mountain from the landscape, and the outlook of life is changed forever.

No one ever really dies as long as they took the time to leave us with fond memories.

It was not very long before that room again knew her, often; sitting there alone, as patient and as mild as when she had watched beside the little bed. When any sharp sense of its being empty smote upon her, she could kneel beside it, and pray GOD — it was the pouring out of her full heart — to let one angel love her and remember her.

It's not what you eat but who you are when you eat it.