Quotes About Presence

Every day we touch what is wrong, and, as a result, we are becoming less and less healthy. That is why we have to learn to practice touching what is not wrong—inside us and around us. When we get in touch with our eyes, our heart, our liver, our breathing, and our non-toothache and really enjoy them, we see that the conditions for peace and happiness are already present.

People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child — our own two eyes. All is a miracle.

The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.

Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.

Many people think excitement is happiness.... But when you are excited you are not peaceful. True happiness is based on peace.

If you love someone but rarely make yourself available to him or her, that is not true love.

Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves - slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future.

My buildings don't speak in words but by means of their own spaciousness.

And when he is out of sight, quickly also is he out of mind.

Faith will tell us Christ is present, When our human senses fail.

The Lionheart had arrived.

no human wisdom is more reliable than the actual history in which God is omnipresent.

Eternal God, the refuge of all your children, in our weakness you are our strength, in our darkness our light, in our sorrow our comfort and peace. May we always live in your presence, and serve you in our daily lives; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Boniface FURTHER

A stammering man is never a worthless one. Physiology can tell you why. It is an excess of sensibility to the presence of his fellow creature, that makes him stammer.

A stammering man is never a worthless one. Physiology can tell you why. It is an excess of delicacy, excess of sensibility to the presence of his fellow creature, that makes him stammer.

?a?rat ("The Presence") 'Al?, who lived from 598 to 661 of the common era,

pursy, unwieldy, half cataleptic baker of Mannheim had absolutely fought six-and-twenty rounds with an accomplished English boxer merely upon this inspiration; so greatly was natural genius exalted and sublimed by the genial presence of his murderer.

There are people who have energy that say 'don't come near me, don't get too close.' There's people like Adrienne Shelley who have the energy of 'come over here and give me a hug and if you're around me you're going to be happy about it.'

Characters who are on screen from start to finish are not necessarily the ones who have the greatest impact.

I get very nervous about not being around the office.

Being on set with my dad - that's so cool. People always ask me if that made me nervous, but it's the same element when you're a kid - when your parents come in the auditorium for those school performances. It calms you.

You don't know how long your time is here, but people never forget the way you feel.

A dress should never take over someone.

When you listen with memory, you have an old agenda, and when you listen with desire, you have a new one. You can't listen to the other person if your agenda is overtaking you.