Quotes About Presence

Stay at the center of your being without allowing your attention to become distracted by sensory stimulation. Be still and let your true nature manifest and shine through.

Those who are absent, by its means become present: correspondence is the consolation of life. —VOLTAIRE, Philosophical Dictionary

Si stava rimettendo in piedi tra un'imprecazione e l'altra quando vide un paio di scarpe nere avvicinarsi strascicando. «Ti aspettavo ore fa.». Perché doveva essere sempre presente Max ogni volta che la grazia sembrava abbandonarla?

There's a part of me that thinks perhaps we go on existing in a place even after we've left it.

What Corrigan wanted was a fully believable God, one you could find in the grime of the everyday...he consoled himself with the fact that, in the real world, when he looked closely into the darkness he might find the presence of a light, damaged and bruised, but a little light all the same. He wanted, quite simply, for the world to be a better place, and he was in the habit of hoping for it.

He will be there when I be not.

My darkest moments were those in which his presence was blurred.

The Philosophical Reascension calls for the reconstruction of the paradigm of thought and the entire presence of philosophy in society as well as in our daily lives.

They'll always be there beside me.

Never looking back, or too far in front of me. The present is a gift, and I just wanna to be.

God giveth and God taketh away. Just be sure you're present when he giveth – and somewhere else when he taketh it all back.

In late life, we can pose this question internally no matter what activity we are engaged in, whether we are quietly drinking a cup of tea, sitting in a noisy meeting, cooking a festive family dinner, or running a marathon. Our identity or self-sense at any moment can be rooted in ego or rooted in soul. It's not what we're doing but how we're doing—our state of mind—that makes the difference.

There are in this world human beings in solitary places who have answered the Lord's call to make of their lives a little flame, always bright, always attentive to His Presence.

Dad, wherever you are, you are gone but you will never be forgotten.

A true priest is aware of the presence of the altar during every moment that he is conducting a service. It is exactly the same way that a true artist should react to the stage all the time he is in the theater. An actor who is incapable of this feeling will never be a true artist.

o que mais nos faz sofrer talvez seja justamente a relevância excessiva que atribuímos à nossa presença no mundo, pois essa relevância é a pedra de fundação de todas nossas obstinadas repetições, é graças a ela que insistimos em ser sempre "iguais a nós mesmos" (sendo que, no caso, essa expressão não tem um sentido positivo).

Water does nothing yet it penetrates everything. Inaction finds the road.

Love the moment, and the energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

Then, whenever I feel the sun on my face, I will think of you, " I told him. "You will always be with me, Bill. Because of all I have felt for you, and all I have learned from you.

As for her perfume, it was the kind you only noticed after she'd left a room, not while she was still in it. Even then you didn't realize it was perfume, you only wondered what had made you think of her just then.

There were three of them in the room now, where only two had first come in. Death was in the room with the two of them.

Dear Jesus...how foolish of me to have called for human help when You are here.

We sat by deathbeds that became doorways of heaven. W

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