Quotes About Presence

Thank you for reminding me that the future is in God's hands.'" "'You're welcome. And remember, wherever you go, in body and mind, you simply need to call out to God and He is there

She'd spent the rest of the day at his side, getting

When you stop to smell roses, be careful not to inhale bee.

You don't have to say anything. You don't have to teach anything. You just have to be who you are: a bright flame shining in the darkness of despair, a shining example of a person able to cross bridges by opening your heart and mind.

Let yourself become that space that welcomes any experience without judgement.

Because happiness is not where I am . . . it's who I'm with.

After a minute, she felt Rollan's hand brush against hers and their fingers intertwined again. In the misty gloom, he felt like an anchor to the real world, even more real than Jhi. Like all the rest of her might drift away, but her hand would still be there, safely wrapped in his.

Queen Scarlet is here?" Sunny

She's here," she whispered. "She's in Icicle's mind. Shhhh.

Dusky, so how did she not exist at all for this human? It was like being invisible, but a different kind of

There is either being caught up in thinking, or there is a moment of rigpa.

Oh, there you are. I was afraid you had gone off to your stoats again. The carrier has brought you an ape.' 'What sort of an ape?' asked Stephen. 'A damned ill-conditioned sort of an ape.

It seems to me that if one could accept existence as it is, partake of it fully, the world could be magical. The cricket on my balcony at the moment piercing the night repeatedly with its hurried needle of sound, would be welcome merely because it is there, rather than an annoyance because it distracts me from what I am trying to do.

Tunner's presence created a situation, however slight, which kept him from entering into the reflective state he considered essential.

who is invisible enough to see you

How you die out in me: down to the last worn-out knot of breath you're there, with a splinter of life.

God did not come to do away with suffering; he did not even come to explain it. He came to fill it with his presence.

architecture is there, presenting itself to us even when we do not seek it out or even choose to be conscious of it

If you would experience a landscape, you must go alone into it and sit down somewhere quietly and wait for it to come in its own good time to you.

There is also present in every human being, in everyone's biography-although sometimes harrowing cases of systematic neglect, present in the matter of absence, so if longing for that which never was there then too, deeply suspect, should have been.

stability prevents daydreaming about 'what if...' and inserts us totally into what we are doing, causing us to live with a new intensity.

Aquel al que se espera, porque se le espera, ya está presente, ya se muestra dueño y señor.

I've learned that waiting is the most difficult bit, and I want to get used to the feeling, knowing that you're with me, even when you're not by my side.

The day is made up of 24 hours and an infinite number of moments. We need to be aware of those moments and make the most of them regardless of whether we're busy doing something or contemplating life.