Quotes About Presence

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

A time comes when you don't have to use meditation techniques anymore. You just sit down and you are nonexistence itself.

Live now. When you are eating, eat. When you are loving, love. when you are talking with someone, talk. When you are looking at a flower, look. Catch the beauty of the moment!

Since youre here, Courtauld said wearily, youd better explain why these lollipops or whatever they're called have to be on silk. If I'd had a lollipop I knew precisely where Id stick it.

Contemplava-o por todo o tempo que não vira, impaciente como sempre de verificar a imagem que dele fizera durante a ausência. E, como sempre, a imaginação superava a realidade.

If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.

In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.

She had no need to ask why he had come. She knew as certainly as if he had told her that he was here to be where she was.

What am I coming for?" he repeated, looking straight into her eyes. "You know that I have come to be where you are," he said; "I can't help it.

He knew she was there by the joy and terror that took possession of his heart [...] Everything was lit up by her. She was the smile that brightened everything around.

I ask one thing only: I ask for the right to hope, to suffer as I do. But if even that cannot be, command me to disappear, and I disappear. You shall not see me if my presence is distasteful to you.

I didn't know you were going. What are you coming for?" she said, letting fall the hand with which she had grasped the doorpost. And irrepressible delight and eagerness shone in her face. "What am I coming for?" he repeated, looking straight into her eyes. "You know that I have come to be where you are," he said, "I can't help it.

And with that, he was gone, leaving me alone. Only I wasn't alone. In fact, I knew I would never be alone again.

La luz, la divinidad, la pose absoluta, donde por la mañana, en camas revueltas, en susurros, se te presenta la vida.

They were seated to one side, but to be with her was to be seen by everyone.

If your mind is dirty you can run 10,000 miles, but where have you gotten? If you go for a 1-mile run and you're passionately engaged with the world, who cares about the other 9,999?

Let us not look back to the past with anger, nor towards the future with fear, but look around with awareness.

Ne regardez pas en arrière avec colère, ni devant avec crainte, mais autour de vous avec conscience.

Por qué no le preguntó usted como era que se encontraba allí con el? Encendí un cigarro y contesté: - Señora, tenía miedo de que desapareciera de repente

He was pal o' me heart, so he was. I try not to think of him, only I can't get him off my mind. He's with me always day and night. I do see him places he's never been, in the middle of a crowd I see him. His face looks out from the top of a tram, a schoolboy wouldn't pass but I'm thinking it's him. I try to make him go away, for I'm a soldier now and I'm under orders. But he's always there and I'm desperate to hold him. I doubt I'm a man expect he's by me.

this lovely paraphrase on me from St. Teresa:   Place yourself in the presence of Christ. Don't wear yourself out thinking. Simply speak with your Beloved. Delight in him. Lay your needs at his feet. Acknowledge that he doesn't have to allow you in his presence. (But he does!) There is a time for thinking, And a time for being. Be. With him.

She felt that she could so much more depend upon the sincerity of those who sometimes looked or said a careless or a hasty thing, than of those whose presence of mind never varied, whose tongue never slipped.

A mother would have been always present. A mother would have been a constant friend; her influence would have been beyond all other.

I am amazingly absent; I believe I am the most absent creature in the world.