Quotes About Presence

Be present for your own life.

Nella vita ci sono un'alba e un tramonto ogni giorno. E tu puoi scegliere di essere presente, puoi metterti sulla strada della bellezza.

There is always a sunrise and always a sunset. It's up to you to be there for it, my mom said a million years ago, when she was alive. I rolled my eyes then, a million years ago. Now I live my life by it.

Someone was in here. It was me. I was here. I felt it in a way I hadn't in ages: the me inside of me, occupying my spot in the fathomless Milky Way.

So very close, so very present, so very belonging to me.

Someone's in here," I called, though that was obvious. Someone was in here. It was me. I was here. I felt in a way I hadn't in ages: the me inside of me, occupying my spot in the fathomless Milky Way.

As I passed them, I felt the presence of my mother so acutely that I had the sensation that she was there; once I even paused to look around for her before I could go on.

As I read, I could feel my mother's presence so acutely, her absence so profoundly, that it was hard to focus on the words.

Very nice," said Rick after a while. "Very nice," he repeated, with more emphasis the second time. "What is?" I asked, turning to him, though I knew. "Everything," he said. And it was true.

To know that seeing the fish beneath the surface of the water was enough. That it was everything. It was my life—like all lives, mysterious and irrevocable and sacred. So very close, so very present, so very belonging to me. How wild it was, to let it be.

You're here. So be here, dear one. You're okay with us for now.

It was my life – like all lives, mysterious and irrevocable and sacred. So very close, so very present, so very belonging to me. How wild it was, to let it be.

All of my life has been a relearning to pray- a letting go of incantational magic, petition, and the vain repetition "Me, Lord, Me," instead watching attentively for the light that burns at the center of every star, every cell, every living creature, every human heart. Learning to pray, then, as I understand it, is learning to listen with the mind and heart- making oneself attentive to each exquisite detail of the world.

Government employees have a servile switch in their brains. It makes them grovel in the presence of netas.

Se soubesse como gosto das suas cheganças, você chegaria correndo todo dia.

Worse than seeing a spider is suddenly no longer seeing that spider.

Our past is like a footprint. It only confirms we were there. No burden on our future does it bear. Bring the rain, clear the pane of clutter.

Soul shadows you everywhere.

If Time is trying not to be found he is excellent and terrible at it — the days hide him so well — in our faces he is buried but not concealed he marks his territory...

Few delights can equal the mere presence of one whom we trust utterly.

A very strange and solemn feeling came over me as I stood there, with no sound but the rustle of the pines, no one near me, and the sun so glorious, as for me alone. It seemed as if I felt God as I never did before, and I prayed in my heart that I might keep that happy sense of nearness all my life.

Enjoy simple things with total intensity. Just a cup of tea can be a deep meditation.

The best fertilizer is the gardener's shadow.

Only that day dawns to which we are awake.