Quotes About Presence

The hardest thing is to do something which is close to nothing because it is demanding all of you.

I just want to create situations where people forget time.

Sigue llenando éste minuto de razones para respirar.

Es tan lindo saber que Usted existe.

y eso tampoco si habito en tu memoria no estaré solo

y cuando te dormís y yo sigo leyendo entre cuatro paredes algo ocurre estás aquí dormida y sin embargo me siento acompañado como nunca.

Pasó todo tan rápido, tan natural, tan felizmente, que no pude tomar ni una sola anotación mental. Cuando se está en el foco mismo de la vida, es imposible reflexionar.

Una presencia móvil pero sin vida. Una presencia de olas oscuras, insensibles. Testigo de la historia, testigo inútil porque no sabe nada de la historia. ¿Y si el mar fuera Dios? También un testigo insensible. Una presencia móvil pero sin vida.

Claro que te dejo. No faltaba más." Pero faltaba. Cómo no que faltaba.

los distraídos suelen oxidarse

Tu rostro está aquí: cómo nos mira y cómo lo miramos. Te fuiste sin decir adiós. Nadie te sabe, todos te añoran

Ya sé ahora que mi soledad era un horrible fantasma, sé que la sola presencia de Avellaneda ha bastado para espantarla, pero sé también que no ha muerto, que estará juntando fuerzas en algún sótano inmundo, en algún arrabal de mi rutina. Por eso, sólo por eso, me apeo de mi suficiencia y me limito a decir: ojalá

For Newton, the world's very existence and the mathematical regularity of the observed cosmos were evidence for God's presence.

If we could allow the pace of our meetings to slow down to the pace of our hearts, we might find genuine understanding.

When it comes to Clare, sometimes, the past isn't past. The past can get as present as any present ever was, so near that I feel its breath.

For those few stolen minutes, she found she could let go, second by second, of everything that haunted her until her mind was empty as a scoured bowl and all she knew was flavor on her tongue, air against her face, the small, dazzling details of her scrap of world.

He pictured the black dot on the map again. Not very long ago, Dev had believed in the dot's randomness, but now the dot was houses, friends, trees, poems, fiery leaves snagged in his rake, his bike wheels on asphalt. He imagined the dot grown larger and printed with the words on his Milky Way poster: YOU ARE HERE.

I listened to the wind bury winter; and when I tasted his grace, his grace had no name; only, night became something else in his presence, as though darkness had a soul, here, swaying to heartbeats roaring.

When he came there was no light. When he left there was no darkness.

God often speaks loudest when we're quietest.

When you pray regularly, you never know when God will show up or speak up. Today could be the day. When you live in prayer mode, you live with holy anticipation. You know that coincidences are providences. Any moment can turn into a holy moment. God can invade the reality of your life at three o'clock one afternoon and change everything.

The Danish philosopher and theologian Søren Kierkegaard believed that boredom was the root of all evil. In other words, boredom isn't just boring. It's wrong. You cannot be in the presence of God and be bored at the same time. For that matter, you cannot be in the will of God and be bored at the same time. If you follow in the footsteps of Jesus, it will be anything but boring.

The true purpose of prayer is to get into God's presence so He can outline His agenda for us. Here's my advice: pray about what to pray about. God will reveal a promise, a problem, or a person. Then circle whatever God has prompted you to pray for with the same kind of consistency with which the earth circles the sun.

We don't get a vision from God by going to conferences. We might get some good ideas, but God-ideas are only revealed in the presence of God.