Quotes About Presence

She expected nothing. She was in herself, the end itself.

Que não se acorde quem está todo ausente, quem está absorto está sentindo o pesos das coisas.

God belongs to those who manage to get him. God appears when you're distracted.

Y cada cosa que me suceda yo la vivo aquí anotándola. Porque quiero sentir en mis manos indagadoras el nervio vivo y trémulo del hoy.

Sometimes she didn't think. Sometimes a person sat there being. She didn't have to do. Being was already doing. You could be slowly or a bit fast.

The time to live, my love, was being so right now that I leaned my mouth on living matter.

Ça, si doux : ne pas fuir, mais aller.

a respiração contínua do mundo é aquilo que ouvimos e chamamos de silêncio.

Saudade é um pouco como fome. Só passa quando se come a presença. Mas às vezes a saudade é tão profunda que a presença é pouco: quer-se absorver a outra pessoa toda. Essa vontade de um ser o outro para uma unificação inteira é um dos sentimentos mais urgentes que se tem na vida.

Read the energy that is in my silence.

El amor ya está, siempre está. Falta sólo el golpe de gracia —que se llama pasión.

As coisas principais assaltavam-na em quaisquer momentos, também nos vazios, enchendo-os de significados.

No huir, pero ir. Eso, tan dulce: no huir, ir... O gritar alto, alto y recto e infinito, con los ojos cerrados, tranquilos. Andar hasta encontrar las lucecitas rojas. Tan trémulas como en un comienzo o en un fin. También ella estaba muriendo, ¿o naciendo? No, no ir, quedarse rendida en el instante como la mirada absorta se prende en el vacío quiete, fija en el aire.

I was really in the room.

Missy could fall down and hurt herself, even if I'm walking right there beside her. That doesn't mean that I allowed it to happen. She knows, as far as unconditional love, I'll pick her up and I'll carry her. I'll try to heal her. I'll cry when she cries. And I'll rejoice when she is well. In all the moments of my life, God has been right there beside me. The truth of God's love is not that He allows bad things to happen. It's His promise that He'll be there with us when they do.

In the dark, every voice could be the voice of an ancestor or a spirit guide. In the darkness, who can tell the living from the dead?

Any human being on the planet today can take off their shoes and stand in the dirt and instantly know everything there is to know.

I am the place in which something has occurred.

Where? On the impalpable and the invisible. Nowhere. Not even necessarily in the place where my mistress happens to be, since I sometimes love her better absent than present.

Quizá la felicidad sea eso, un instante donde estar, un momento cualquiera en el que las palabras sobran porque se necesitarían demasiadas para poder contarlo. Atreverse a tomarlo en su condensación, sin permitir que ellas, en su afán de narrarlo, le hagan perder su intensidad.

La extrañaba incluso más que a Ana, tal vez porque echar de menos a alguien vivo tiene más sentido que hacerlo con un muerto. La muerte pide resignación, la ausencia no.

You begin to think, maybe erroneously, that this other kind of anger is really a type of knowledge: the type that both clarifies and disappoints. It responds to insult and attempted erasure simply by asserting presence, and the energy required to present, to react, to assert is accompanied by visceral disappointment: a disappointment in the sense that no amount of visibility will alter the ways in which one is perceived.

For so long you thought the ambition of racist language was to denigrate and erase you as a person. After considering Butler's remarks, you begin to understand yourself as rendered hypervisible in the face of such language acts. Language that feels hurtful is intended to exploit all the ways that you are present. Your alertness, your openness, and your desire to engage actually demand your presence, your looking up, your talking back, and, as insane as it is, saying please.

I learned early that being right pales next to staying in the room.