Quotes About Presence

It is through realizing loving presence as our very essence, through being that presence, that we discover true freedom.

The human soul finds its saddest imprisonment when it is helpless in the presence of cruelty, when it cannot right a wrong. It finds its highest freedom when it can secure justice to others.

The best part about having true friends is that you can go months without seeing them and they'll still be there for you and act as if you'd never left!

Friendship isn't about who you've known the longest. It's all about the friend who comes and stands by your side in bad times.

A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand.

Friends, though absent, are still present.

You make each day a special day. You know how, by just your being you.

Friend, our closeness is this: anywhere you put your foot, feel me in the firmness under you.

Absence is a house so vast that inside you will pass through its walls and hang pictures on the air.

We keep passing unseen through little moments of other people's lives.

The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence.

Become the kind of person who brightens a room just by entering it.

Nice friendship is like the breathing air, you will never see it but you will always feel its presence.

There is nothing I want but your Presence. In friendship, time dissolves.

friends are like stars. You do not see all the time, but you know they are there

...there remained a strange formality between them, and her pleasure in his presence felt too much like missing him had felt during the last week.

There are two kinds of people in the world: those who come into a room and say "Here I am!" and those who come in and say "Oh there you are."

Don't look now, but there's one too many in this room and I think it's you.

Zen is not effort. Effort is tension, effort is work, effort is to achieve something. Zen is not something to achieve. You are already that. Just relax, relax so deeply that you become a revelation to yourself.

When you spend all your time thinking about the past.. and worrying about the future... You lose sight of reality... and eventually... lose track of who you are...

You must learn an inner solitude, wherever or with whomsoever you may be. You must learn to penetrate things and find God there, to get a strong impression of God firmly fixed in your mind.

So I place my heart under lock and key, to take some time to look after me. But when I turn around you're standing there...

Whatever you are doing, love yourself for doing it. Whatever you are feeling, love yourself for feeling it.

One of the hardest challenges we face in life is to simply live in our own skin to just be right here, right now, regardless of where we are.