Quotes About Presence

We can't plan life.All we can do is be available for it.

O thou, in whose presence my soul takes delight, On whom in affliction I call, My comfort by day and my song in the night, My hope, my salvation, my all.

Somehow I had become aware that elephants project their presence into an area around them, and that they have control over this, because when they didn't want to be found I could be almost on top of them and pick up nothing at all. A little more experimentation and research and it became clear what was happening.

The best writing is what's right in front of you. Sometimes I'd walk down the street with poets and they wouldn't see anything. I'd have to shake their arm and say, 'Look! Look!

Getting on the floor also means joining in with play that we would rather ignore or eliminate.

So that's what it's all about! You put your whole self in, you take your whole self out; you put your whole self in and you shake it all about. The idea is that by doing whatever you're doing with all of you, you can then take all of you out. The trick is how to do both.

allowing the river of light-the deepest currents of consciousness-to rise to the surface and, without anxiety, animate our lives. We are thus blessed to return to the scriptural text of our ordinary lives and live out its dream. Not to leave life but to learn how to be fully present in it.

The records of every great religion show the presence of such Supermen, so full of the Divine Life that again and again they have been taken as the very representatives of God Himself.

I don't want to wake up and not truly be enjoying my life and these amazing things around me.

y'all for coming

I gave Nona my definition of what it means to carry the cross. It means to practice the Presence of Jesus and allow His love to flow through us to others; it means that we are to carry the life of Christ to other people and say to them, "The Kingdom of God has come to you.

In plaats van naar de kerk te gaan (hun denken was niet verduisterd door de gedachte dat de kerk bestond uit gebouwen en organisatorische structuren) kwamen ze bijen als zijnde de kerk om gemeenschap te hebben in Zijn Tegenwoordigheid

there is nothing needy souls need more than enablement to believe the Scriptural revelation that God is indeed with them and loves them.

This may be the very nature of love, a passion as fickle as the sea, full of certainty when the object of desire is absent, yet dubious when confronted again with the lover's presence.

It is a happy woman when the spirit time is come, that finds herself in the presence of a good man.

If your friend is sick and dying, the most important thing he wants is not an explanation; he wants you to sit with him. He's terrified of being alone more than anything else. So, God has not left us alone.

Immediate knowledge tells us only that God is, not what he is. But if God is not an empty Being beyond the stars, he must be present in the communion of human spirits, and, in his relation to these, he is the One Spirit who pervades reality and thought. Hence there can be no final separation between our immediate consciousness of him and our mediated knowledge of reality.

great posture, a heads-up look, a confident smile, and a direct gaze." The ideal image for somebody who's a Somebody.

There are two kinds of people in this life: Those who walk into a room and say, 'Well, here I am!' And those who walk in and say, 'Ahh, there you are.

Doctora Zainab looks at her watch. I should leave. But Mai carries her book and sits next to me. She wants me to read it for her. I start to read 'This is the House that Jack Built' and I forget Doctora Zainab's presence there is only Mai's attention and Tamer looking at us. For as long as the book lasts, we are poised, no future, no past.-Minaret

There can be no doubt: the presence of the atelier has been crucial for its evolution, as a natural consequence of the specific visual culture that the atelier tends to generate.

Life never end when you are in it.

but he was not looking at the view beneath him. He was looking beside him, where Violet Baudelaire was sitting

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.