Quotes About Presence

You sit and are aware of the breathing, but not in a pinpoint way. Your attention is not at the nostrils or chest or abdomen but, in a much more open way, on the whole body, a panoramic view of the sitting breathing body.

But seeing that the mind has wandered is practice.

Fatehi proposed that Paul's link of the Spirit and the risen Jesus should be understood as "a dynamic identification," the Spirit acting to communicate Jesus' presence, power, and glory to believers and Jesus in some real way "actually present and active through the Spirit."44 This seems to me to be a cogent characterization.

The second type of haunting is what is called an intelligent haunting. In an intelligent haunting, the spirit seems to have a personality of its own and may show emotion. It interacts with the living.

God will be present, whether asked or not.

Hold your head up! Throw you shoulders back! It's the cheapest way to tell the world you're somebody!

The best thing about being a friend, is just being.

As I watch him, a sudden recognition comes over me: Tonight, I can be anyone I want… maybe being happy only means living in the moment, appreciating the exact moment you're in and not thinking about the worries of the future.

To listen with presence means there is nothing else in the world going on but the person in front of you and what they have to say. When you ask, you need to listen to the person's every word and be present, and show you are present, and then and only then can you make the right response to their ask.

A person can "see" right through you, even if you are on the phone and not in person. Think for a minute when you had someone on the line, and you could tell they were distracted, multitasking, or speaking or whispering to someone else. How did you feel? Not great because this person was not devoting their time or attention on you.

Solo quiero estar dónde tú estés.

It was not a great presence but a great absence, a geometric ocean of darkness that seemed to swallow heaven itself.

And this last second or two of dreaming in which your face returns to me completely. Not even needing to be, being so alive again to me.

The paradox of phallocentrism in all its manifestations is that it depends on the image of the castrated woman to give order and meaning to its world. An idea of woman stands as lynch pin to the system: it is her lack that produces the phallus as a symbolic presence, it is her desire too make good the lack that the phallus signifies.

Yo lo que quiero, me dije, es un hombre como Dios manda; bondadoso como un perro y presente como una montaña

Así pasa con la letra escrita: aunque nadie la lea, basta con que esté ahí para que gravite como ley de bendición o condena.

In a relationship where one person believes her or himself to be essentially unlovable and undesirable in either an emotional or sexual sense, mutuality is absent. The survivor believes it's necessary to pay for the presence of the other person, literally or symbolically.

If a negative state is assumed in life, then you have to call attention to its absence.

The truth is that even ten minutes spent looking at the sky with nothing to fill the time can feel long.

This realization leads to a different question than that suggested by all these tips on simplifying the holidays. Namely, what are you saving your energy for? This is all there is. Anything could happen and you are not guaranteed another snowman. So make a fuss. Make a show. Spend your energy now.

Just because you can't see something doesn't mean it's not there.

Walking through the resturant,looking like six feet three inches of branded,terrifying sex appeal was Alexander.The other patrons seemed to either shrink in his presence or,and this was mostly the female clientele,stare covetously while their dates slumped in their chairs unable to compete with the godforce walking past.Even the staff stopped what they were doing and had the good sense to look nervous.

Don't erase me

Food is part of God's creating. A right relationship with food points us toward Him.... The table is not only a place where we can become present to God. The table is also a place where He becomes present to us.