Quotes About Presence

But they know about us, they know, the four corners, and the chairs nearby us. Discerning shadows also know, and even the table keeps quiet.

It felt right not to talk. It felt good just to be. Sometimes there was no need to fill the air with words.

Still must I tamely Talk sense with these others? How long Before I shall be with you again, Magnificently saying nothing!

The great lesson we learn from life is when, and when not be, in the centre of things

Ninety percent of success in life is just showing up.

80% of life is showing up.

for sheer astonishment nothing beats an uncanny bit of prestidigitation perpetuated by a neurasthenic homunculus with black-framed glasses, imposing crown baldness, and a romantic presence to rival the late Arnold Stang.

Oviedo is a small paradise, marred only by the unnatural presence of a bronze image of a schlemiel.

Un día me dijeron que la felicidad consiste en no querer moverse de donde una está.

La manera más eficaz de sacar a alguien de tu vida es echártelo encima. Cargarlo todo el tiempo, para que hasta cuando sonría te parezca insoportable. Crear una incomodidad artificial para que esté ahí siempre, que te despiertes y le mires la jeta y sientas como ganas de no haber despertado.

Jesus, Mary, Muhammad and Vishnu, how good to see you Richard Parker!

You bring joy and pain in equal measure. Joy because you are with me, but pain because it wont be for long.

What of God's silence? I think it over. I add: An intellect confounded yet a trusting sense of presence and of ultimate purpose.

His presence was overwhelming, yet equally evident was the lithesome grace of it.

You bring joy and pain in equal measure. Joy because you are with me, but pain because it won't be for long.

except for the breathing

there's sunlight and shade, spots and patterns of colour, your mind is elsewhere–so you don't make out what is right in front of you.

An intellect confounded yet a trusting sense of presence and of ultimate purpose.

What do you most value in your friends? Their continued existence.

Waking up begins with saying am and now. That which has awoken then lies for a while staring up at the ceiling and down into itself until it has recognized I, and therefrom deduced I am, I am now. Here comes next, and is at least negatively reassuring; because here, this morning, is where it has expected to find itself: what's called at home.

The prefect evening...lying down on the couch beside the bookcase and reading himself sleepy...Jim lying opposite him at the other end of the couch, also reading; the two of them absorbed in their books yet so completely aware of each other's presence.

the same apostle Paul was sure that if the church in Corinth would worship God aright, any unbeliever who came into their meeting would "fall down and worship God, exclaiming, 'God is really among you' " (1 Cor. 14:25). That's missional praise.

The best runner leaves no tracks. —Tao Te Ching

To live with ghosts requires solitude.