Quotes About Presence

People are sometimes easily overlooked. The holes they leave behind when they aren't there any more are far harder to miss.

Usually, we ignore the present moment and, by doing so, we take away its power.

She was surprised at how deflating his presence was.

All the doors were open, all the faces were frightened; one felt that Death was there.

Identity is your role in life, the part you play. Individuality is who you are, and who you are is revealed to you if you can get to complete presence.

Mobile technology makes it possible to be present without being in attendance.

Someone, somewhere right now is thinking about You!

where you are or where you've been. Remember,

Não fique empolgado com o que Deus pode dar, empolgue-se com o que Ele é.

A melhor forma de entrar no Santo dos Santos é de joelhos.

Anywhere at all in the universe, but I choose to be here with this growler scowler. And good ain't the key. It's just that I'm available to any and every adventure of the human breath.

The solution of the problem lies in seeing it—in the seeing, without wanting a solution, or dissolution—just seeing what's there. . . .

We rarely touch this. We rarely contact this simple moment. So used to constant input and excitement, we lack fine-tuning into all the subtleties of this instant, the ability to register a quiet aliveness without the stirring of expectation.

In the expectation of wonderful things to happen in the future, one doesn't hear the sound of the wind and rain, the breath and heartbeat this instant.

CRUNCH CRUNCH CRUNCH. Mmmmm, mmmmm. Crunch crunch crunch. There was someone in my room, someone crouching at the bottom of the bed eating something. Enjoying it too, by the sound of it. Mmmmmm, mmmmm. Crunch, crunch.

Some people think the theists get off easy by offering eternal life, but in my experience it is awfully difficult to reconcile the death of a child with the idea of a loving God. As a Christian, I knew what to say, but I don't think my words made much of a difference. What mattered most was just being there and sharing the hurt.

I am a wave on a shoreless sea. From no beginning I travel to no goal, Making my movements stillness. Constantly I am arriving And departing, Being born and dying. I am always with you And yet have never been.

A child needs his parent at all times, Father. Not just when life is smiling down upon him" -Rovender

and when she walks into the room, everybody turns: some kind of light is coming from her head. Even the geraniums look curious, and the bees, if they were here, would buzz suspiciously around her hair, looking for the door in her corona. We're all attracted to the perfume of fermenting joy

Alternatively, we could say that voice embodies, not any set of particular facts, but the presence of a self, a personality or a sensibility.

We were never visitors here together, you and I. Yet how easy it is for me to find you in this place

you know lovers walked here, felt the rising sun against their upturned faces here, anticipated tomorrow here, just not today.

In our rush to find a better situation in time, we trample over the flower of beingness that presents itself in every moment.

Sometimes we are only aware of how happy we are when the moment has passed. But now and again, if we are very lucky, we are aware of happiness when it is actually happening.