Quotes About Presence

BaÅŸkalar?yla -hatta kar??na ç?kan tek insanla- sanki her ÅŸey o an baÅŸlayacak ve biraz sonra bitecekmiÅŸ gibi yaÅŸamal?s?n.

when we appreciate reality, it can actually work on us.

There are many, many details of action involved in the simplicity and sharpness of being in this very moment, here, now.

So the problem begins in a very simple way. When body and mind are unsynchronized, you feel like a caricature of yourself, almost like a primordial idiot or a clown. In that situation, it is very difficult to relate to the rest of the world. That

A sense of knowing, or seeing, always happens. If you are willing to acknowledge its existence, there is the potential of being wakeful, open, and precisely there constantly. This is not based on being a sharp person, a smart person, or a very careful person. Rather, it is about being a person who can actually be—by yourself, very simply.

Meditation, or samadhi, is connected with the idea of overcoming the constant search for entertainment.

You might as well come back to the breath. It is more joyful, more wholesome, and you don't have to be startled by anything.

Altogether, the idea of meditation is not to create states of ecstasy or absorption, but to experience being.

There is something to do, but at the same time whatever you are doing is only related to the moment rather than being related to achieving some goal in the future, which brings us back to the practice of meditation. Meditation is not a matter of beginning to set foot on the path; it is realizing that you are already on the path—fully being in the nowness of this very moment—now, now, now. You do not actually begin because you have never really left the path.

Then, putting his palm on top of my head, like a warm hat, he whispered, "Pay attention. Be a person for whom love is not lost.

Lord," Dorothy said aloud, "I know You're with me no matter where I go, whether it's to the familiar or the new…I know it.

I felt as though I were in the presence of one of God's more complicated pranks.

Es lo único que voy a decir sobre este tema por ahora. Como dice Chloé, hay cosas a las que más vale no darles muchas vueltas. Si quieres leer algo, lee el espacio blanco que queda en esta página. Soy yo, el que está en ese espacio.

When you're in love you don't have to do a damn thing. You can just be. You can just stay quiet in the world. You don't have to move an inch.

Dost thou wish me to complete the catalogue by thy death? Thy life is a worthless thing. Tempt me no more. I am but a man, and thy presence may awaken a fury which may spurn my control. Begone!

During my incarceration Mother visited me. She had in some way managed to leave the workhouse and was making an effort to establish a home for us. Her presence was like a bouquet of flowers; she looked so fresh and lovely that I felt ashamed of my unkempt appearance and my shaved iodined head. 'You must excuse his dirty face,' said the nurse. Mother laughed, and how well I remember her endearing words as she hugged and kissed me: 'With all thy dirt I love thee still.

I see so little of you these days; your presence is as rare as that of one's discarded mistress.

I do believe in an everyday sort of magic -- the inexplicable connectedness we sometimes experience with places, people, works of art and the like; the eerie appropriateness of moments of synchronicity; the whispered voice, the hidden presence, when we think we're alone.

"I am in the presence of the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come?" said Scrooge.

He stood looking after them... as though he had perceived that they had come back accompanied by a ghost a-piece.

You are in every line I have ever read.

You have been in every line I have ever read.

As all partings foreshadow the great final one, - so, empty rooms, bereft of a familiar presence, mournfully whisper what your room and what mine must one day be.

What is the secret, my darling, of your being everything to all of us, as if there werre only one of us, yet never seeming to be hurried, or to have too much to do? -Darney to Lucie