Quotes About Presence

7. Be real If you want to play with your kids, you must be 100 percent real in what you do. Don't be afraid to look silly. Let them guide. Stop worrying about what others think of you or what you think of yourself. Get down on their level and try to let go for even 20 minutes a day if it is difficult for you. Even a little playtime on their level is worth more than any toy you could buy.

It's a rare thing to be with another person and not feel an obligation to fill every second with talk.

The knowledge of death seemed present in both sisters—it was something about the way they carried themselves, something that had broken too soon and had not mended, marking them in spite of their lightheartedness.

human being could be alive for years and years, thinking and breathing and eating, full of a million worries and feelings and thoughts, taking up space in the world, and then, in an instant, become absent, invisible.

Without language you can't feel that you have a legitimate, respected presence. You are without a voice, without power.

But death, too, had the power to awe, she knew this now-that a human being could be alive for years and years, thinking and breathing and eating, full of a million worries and feelings and thoughts, taking up space in the world, and then, in an instant, become absent, invisible.

the certain absence of certain foods on their plates conjuring his father's presence somehow.

Her body exuded an enviable harmony with her surroundings. Her head was turned to one side, her eyes were closed, and the red strip of her bikini top was untied. I lacked her serenity, but her presence afforded me some relief, and feeling slightly guilty, I dozed off in her shadow.

I'm not really a job-type person, where I go do a nine-to-give. I have to be with the work at all times and experiencing it.

I use Instagram as an online gallery to display my work. For me, it's almost more important to exist online than it is in real life.

I know that God our Father is in this work in great congregations . . . and in the smallest branch and the smallest congregation.

I don't believe that there are no spiritual beings around us. I don't know what to call them, I don't know how they work. But I know they're there

If God is willing to be born in a barnyard, then expect him to be at work anywhere - bars, bedrooms, boardrooms, and brothels.

I find, surprisingly, that actors are liberated in their work if there's stuff going on around them, because they can't think too much about who they're supposed to be.

Life's work is to wake up, to let the things that enter your life wake you up rather than put you to sleep.

The ability to be present with every single person and engage was a great model for me of the work that a writer needs to do. Writers, living or dead, still guide me in many ways.

In whatever direction you turn, you will see God coming to meet you; nothing is void of him, he himself fills all his work.

Attention is the material I work with.

There is no work-life balance. We have one life. What's most important is that you be awake for it.

Always live in active consciousness

If you are not living in active consciousness, you will always be lost

To be productive, you have to stop being absent-minded

Always live in the here and now

God is in people