Quotes About Presence

You came back to us in a dream and we were not here.

When the mind is free of any thought or judgment, it is still and acts like a mirror. Then and only then can we know things as they are.

But of course the instant I try to make myself relax, true relaxation vanishes, and in its place is a strange phenomenon called "trying to relax." Relaxation happens only when allowed, not as a result of "trying" or "making.

Where there is nothing, there is God.

I try to hear you remembering that we are not separate to find you who cannot be lost or elsewhere or incomplete

where will the meanings be when the words are forgotten will I see again where you are

I look for you my curl of sleep my breathing wave on the night shore my star in the fog of morning I think you can always find me I call to you under my breath I whisper to you through the hours all your names my ear of shadow I think you can always hear me I wait for you my promised day my time again my homecoming my being where you wait for me I think always of you waiting

Going too fast for myself I missed more than I think I can remember almost everything it seems sometimes and yet there are chances that come back that I did not notice when they stood where I could have reached out and touched them

Traveling Together" If we are separated, I will try to wait for you on your side of things your side of the wall and the water and of the light moving at its own speed even on leaves that we have seen I will wait on one side while a side is there

I turned to the room and in the light from the street beheld one beautiful bare breast of a friend's friend gently rising and falling as though I were not there already not there

In the cities the birds are forgotten among other things but then one could say that the cities are made of absences of what disappeared so they could be there

How long ago the day is when at last I look at it with the time it has taken to be there still in it

Seperation Your absence has gone trough me like thread trough a needle. Everything I do is stiched with it's color.

your note is the time of your radiance arriving once just as the sun does

You grieve Not that heaven does not exist but That it exists without us

The joy is in the journey, not the destination. We have a better chance of seeing where we are when we stop trying to get somewhere else.

Theatre is more exciting in the sense that you can actually see the audience in the eye. You know there are no takes and retakes. You have one chance to do your job... and you better do it well!

Christmas: the Son of God expressing the love of God to save us from the wrath of God so we could enjoy the presence of God.

The way you spend Christmas is far more important than how much.

All the Christmas presents in the world are worth nothing without the presence of Christ.

Sometimes the best Christmas present is remembering what you've already got.

It's not about presents but it is about your presence. Therein lies the spirit of the holiday season.

This holiday season I learned the vue if presence over presents.

The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention