Quotes About Presence

When it comes to books...They're like lifelong friends to me; I need to know they're there, even if I don't check in with them on a regular basis.

Responsibility and Trust -- these two are like Yin and Yang, together perfectly complete, and each one requiring the presence of the other. The next time you mistrust someone, consider this -- does that person feel responsible for you in any way? If the answer is yes, then go ahead and trust them. Very likely, they are looking out for your best interest.

In the absence of Death, In the presence of Death, Only one thing remains, It is Love.

Sometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near them.

Don't hold your breath any longer: Perfect moments happen every day

Mary sat at Jesus' feet because she viewed that time as an absolute necessity, not an item to be checked off her to-do list. You can meet with God on a regular and consistent basis and miss Him entirely in the process. In other words, you

God doesn't compete with the clamor and white noise of our busy lives. He beckons us to come before Him in silence. He wants our full, undivided attention. He wants us to cultivate space in our days to lay ourselves at His feet and breathe. He calls us to be still, or as another translation (NASB) says, "Cease striving.

When we attach our happiness to a list of if-then conditions, we miss the joy found in the 960 moments God has already given us today. Once gone, we can never get them back.

Even with tortured minds and broken spirits, even bound to the Surface, they ached for God's presence. It would be like being drawn back into the womb. It would be rest. It was the only real redemption there was.

When (because there is no "if" about this) you are meditating and suddenly find yourself mixing up a batch of brownies or deciding whether to eat Chinese or Italian tonight, just realize that you have strayed off. Then, without judging yourself a "bad" meditator, gently return your awareness to your breath.

Conscience is God present in man.

What are you dreaming of Varvara?" asked Avelii. He saw in her eyes that look, at once absent and intimate, that we have when, perhaps unawares, we reach out so intensely toward another person—toward the deep, multiple self within his parcel of eternity—that we stop noticing him in the present.

If your eyes are blinded with your worries, you cannot see the beauty of the sunset.

Beauty becomes alive and interesting when it's habited.

For lack of attention a thousand forms of loveliness elude us every day.

Some people have youth, some have beauty – I have menace.

The answer must be, I think, that beauty and grace are performed whether or not we will or sense them. The least we can do is try to be there.

You don't have to save the world, but you can be in the world-that's where the beauty comes from

Let us come alive to the splendor that is all around us and see the beauty in ordinary things.

Train yourself to be in awe of the subtle, and you will live in a world of beauty and ease.

I was raised with the idea of beauty in a different way. To me, it is something that really comes out of you and surrounds you.

Look to the beauty of this day, miracles are all around you.

Maybe some are so busy waiting, they forget what indescribable beauty is right there in front of them.

We need to remind ourselves of the beauty of human connection and of nature and pull ourselves out of devices for a moment and appreciate what it is just to be human beings.