Quotes About Presence

She wanted to disappear. Well, that's not quite right. She wanted not to have ever been here in the first place.

Em qualquer acontecimento a história de todos não é a história de cada um nem tampouco a soma dessas histórias e ninguém aqui no final pode entender o motivo de sua presença pois ninguém tem como saber no que o acontecimento consiste. Na verdade, se a pessoa soubesse é bem provável que se ausentasse e como você pode ver isso não pode ser parte do plano se é que algum plano há.

Farid had brought an invisible guest with him. Fear.

Sometimes a crow lands on the roof of the house. It sits there for hours and watches the girl. The woman doesn't chase the bird away.

so silent you could almost have forgotten he was there.

No matter what I feel, I hold the assurance that God never leaves me.

Normal people live distracted, rarely fully present. Weird people silence the distractions and remain fully in the moment.

An important step in getting to know God is to realize how available he is to us. In learning to hear God, it helps us to take on faith the fact that we are already in his presence. If we must make ourselves worthy of his presence first, we will never get there.

It seems my calling is to destroy rather than create. To finish removing my body. To erase my presence from this world.

Worrying won't help it turn up any sooner. And look!" continued the giant. "If you waste your time worrying, how will you have a moment to see how beautiful the world is?

Not only will I be there," Liz said, "but I'll be impersonating a pleasant woman with great manners.

she was at times most able to enjoy her family members when she could sense their presence nearby without actually interacting with them.

RESIST no thought; RETAIN no thought; REACT to no thought; RETURN to the sacred word.

It's very, very simple. You sit, either in a chair or on a prayer stool or mat, and allow your heart to open toward that invisible but always present Origin of all that exists.

Somewhere in those depths of silence I came upon my first experiences of God as a loving presence that was always near, and prayer as a simple trust in that presence.

Centering Prayer is not about developing concentration, attaining clear mind, conscious presence, a strong witnessing "I," some desired state. In Centering Prayer you merely practice and practice the core kenotic motion: "let go, make space, unclench"—thought by thought by thought.

He felt […] as if he'd just gotten a letter, out of the blue, from somebody wise enough to know the truth, from everybody, or at least everybody who mattered. "Hello," the letter said. "Hello, Jeff Greene, I've been watching you and I like you and I want to know you better. This is just to say I'm glad you're alive in the world." The list of signatures, he thought, would include his own.

It was almost as if he'd been a ghost in all those rooms, all those days, a ghost in his own life.

He returns years later, has no demands. He wants only one, most precious thing: To see, purely and simply, without name, Without expectations, fears, or hopes, At the edge where there is no I or not-I.

From the old wood came an ancient melancholy, somehow soothing to her, better than the harsh insentience of the outer world. She liked the inwardness of the remnant of forest, the unspeaking reticence of the old trees. They seemed a very power of silence, and yet a vital presence. They, too, were waiting: obstinately, stoically waiting, and giving off a potency of silence.

The dead don't die. They look on and help.

There's so much of you here with me, really, it's a pity you aren't all here.

There's so much of you here with me, really, that it's a pity you aren't all here.

One's action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not to be a mere rushing on.