Quotes About Presence

I can still feel it. I don't mean 'in my tender heart, it still pains me so.' I can still feel what he did, in my body, standing here, right now.

Oh, a barn, or stable, hedge, or any other place is desirable, if God is there.

It isn't how much time you spend somewhere that makes it memorable; it's how you spend the time.

We cannot attain the presence of God. We're already totally in the presence of God. What's missing is awareness.

There's something deeply important about the early experience of being in the presence of somebody without being impinged upon by their demands, and without them needing you to make a demand on them. And that this creates a space internally into which one can be absorbed. In order to be absorbed one has to feel sufficiently safe, as though there is some shield, or somebody guarding you against dangers such that you can 'forget yourself' and absorb yourself, in a book, say.

Never be the first to arrive at a party or the last to go home, and never, ever be both.

Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.

THERE IS JOY IN THE PRESENCE OF THE ANGELS OF GOD OVER ONE SINNER WHO REPENTS." LUKE 15:10 NASB

Everything you do right now ripples outward and affects everyone. Your posture can shine your heart or transmit anxiety. Your breath can radiate love or muddy the room in depression. Your glance can awaken joy. Your words can inspire freedom. Your every act can open hearts and minds.

If you are waiting for anything in order to live and love without holding back, then you suffer.

Every moment waited is a moment wasted....

The way a man penetrates the world should be the same way he penetrates his woman: not merely for personal gain or pleasure, but to magnify love, openness, and depth.

Every man knows that his highest purpose in life cannot be reduced to any particular relationship. If a man prioritizes his relationship over his highest purpose, he weakens himself, disserves the universe, and cheats his woman of an authentic man who can offer his full, undivided presence.

If you are waiting for anything in order to live and love without holding back, then you suffer. Every moment is the most important moment of your life. No future time is better than now to let down your guard and love.

God is at work in all the places we already inhabit. He is bigger than the arena of our own immediate church programs and ideas about evangelism. He is a prodigal God recklessly working in people and situations of all types. If we truly believe God is at work in the world, we must take the time to pay attention, listen, and discern what God is doing in the lives of those around us.

Do you know what I miss most about Rosemary? Simply knowing she was there.

This should be of no surprise when we realize that a common denominator of all traumas is an alienation and disconnection from the body and a reduced capacity to be present in the here and now.

The real rivals among your peers will be room-changers. Certain people, when they walk into a room, alter the atmosphere. Everybody else adjusts their posture, their willingness to listen, their ideas. This is not a full definition of leadership, only its most obvious symptom.

We can now see that the alternative to "preoccupation" and racing around in a flurry of busyness is learning how to live more deeply.

the first proof of a stable mind is its ability to stay in one place and enjoy its own company

Pourquoi ai-je oublié à quel point c'est doux d'être ici? C'était comme si tous ses bonheurs récents avaient aussitôt été condamnés à l'amnésie.

Había un reloj que entorpecía el silencio recordando su presencia a cada instante.

Hay cuerpos que son consuelos

No vives solo, sino con una ausencia.