Quotes About Presence

A voice floats out to him. Her voice. --- Who's there? --- The man you're not afraid of.

One hour of going to see things with your own eyes is more worthwhile than twenty hours of talking about things.

the Temple's destruction did not end a Jewish presence in Palestine, neither did it create the Jewish diaspora. Communities had been developing outside of the land of Israel for centuries, especially in the Middle

I am with you, fear not, for I have redeemed you, I have summoned you by name, you are mine. When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and when you pass through the rivers, they will not sweep over you. When you walk through the fires, you will not be burned. Do not be afraid, for I am with you."[34]

When letting go, ignore all thoughts. Focus on the feeling itself, not on the thoughts. Thoughts are endless and self-reinforcing, and they only breed more thoughts. Thoughts are merely rationalizations of the mind to try and explain the presence of the feeling. The real reason for the feeling is the accumulated pressure behind the feeling that is forcing it to come up in the moment. The thoughts or external events are only an excuse made up by the mind.

Dejar ir implica ser consciente de un sentimiento, dejarlo crecer, permanecer en él y permitir que siga su curso sin querer que sea diferente ni hacer nada con relación a él.

Letting go involves being aware of a feeling, letting it come up, staying with it, and letting it run its course without wanting to make it different or do anything about

Thoughts are endless and self-reinforcing, and they only breed more thoughts. Thoughts are merely rationalizations of the mind to try and explain the presence of the feeling.

Letting go involves being aware of a feeling, letting it come up, staying with it, and letting it run its course without wanting to make it different or do anything about it. It means simply to let the feeling be there and to focus on letting out the energy behind it.

Denial results in major emotional and maturational blocks. It is usually accompanied by the mechanism of projection. Because of guilt and fear, we repress the impulse or feeling, and we deny its presence within us. Instead of feeling it, we project it onto the world and those around us.

It's not lost on me that I'm so busy recording life, I don't have time to really live it. I've become like one of those people I hate, the sort who go to the museum and, instead of looking at the magnificent Brueghel, take a picture of it, reducing it from art to proof. It's not "Look what Brueghel did, painted this masterpiece" but "Look what I did, went to Rotterdam and stood in front of a Brueghel painting!

It's not lost on me that I'm so busy recording life, I don't have time to really live it.

I insist that Carol eat in my presence for the same reason I wait for the coffee shop employee to turn back in my direction before putting a tip in his basket. I want to be acknowledged as a generous provider. This is about me, not them.

one small thing I've learned these years, how to be alone, and at the edge of aloneness how to be found by the world.

Someone once told me that time is a predator that stalks us all our lives. I'd rather believe that time is a companion who goes with us on the journey, and reminds us to cherish every moment, because they'll never come again.

Boo fell in at my side. He is the only ghost dog I have ever seen. Animals always move on. For some reason he had lingered more than a year at the abbey. Perhaps waiting for me.

Dogs might love a place, as people do, but the only place they love beyond all others is the place where you are.

Peter has learned the difficult animal skill of doing nothing. He's learned to unshackle himself of the race of time and contemplate time itself. [..] It's a lesson hard learned, just to sit there and be.

They never look very big on the table, the bodies. It's built to accommodate the largest frames, there's that. And they're naked. But it's something else. That parcel of the being called the soul-weighing twenty-one grams, according to the experiments of the American doctor Duncan MacDougall-takes up a surprising amount of space, like aloud voice. In its absence, the body seems to shrink

communion with God in the middle of bags of flour

El deseo debe estar presente para que tenga lugar el acto de dar.

15:4:4 The main purpose of learning and involvement in Torah study is to make yourself into a throne for the Divine Presence. When you are dirty with all kinds of sins and transgressions then the Shechinah can't come to rest on you because each and every sin is like a thorn that hurts Her. To remove this obstacle, confess your sins before you begin to learn Torah. (Kav ha-Yashar, chap. 53)

When you are with a fellow man, say to yourself, "I am going to fulfill the commandment of 'love your neighbor as yourself' with this very person now." For the Baal Shem Tov taught that love your neighbor meant that you are to love the person you are with at the moment.

If you don't invite God to be your summer Guest, He won't come in the winter of your life.