Quotes About Presence

I understand that the way you stop time is by stopping being ruled by it.

In T.S. Eliot's phrase from his Four Quartets, I was 'distracted from distraction by distraction'.

I miss you,' she said into the air, as if the spirits of every person she'd loved were in the room with her.

You sometimes have to look at what you know is there and discover the things right in front of you. The people you love.

As well as being highly critical of everything Nora did, and everything Nora wanted, and everything Nora believed, unless it was related to swimming, Nora had also felt that simply to be in his presence was to commit some kind of invisible crime. Ever since the ligament injury that thwarted his rugby career, he'd had a sincere conviction that the universe was against him. And Nora was, at least she felt, considered by him as part of that same universal plan.

The only thing we need is to exist.

Viata se misca destul de repede. Daca nu te opresti sa privesti in jur din cand in cand, s-ar putea s-o ratezi.

This is so often the way with life. You spend so much time waiting for something – a person, a feeling, a piece of information – that you can't quite absorb it when it is in front of you.

Places don't matter to people anymore. Places aren't the point. People are only ever half present where they are these days. They always have at least one foot in the great digital nowhere.

because for pain to be felt there must be a living presence – a me – to feel it.

Check how a tweet/photo/status update is going down (and keep checking). Want to go offline, without going offline.

You can live that life as if you've always been there and the book will never be returned." - Mrs. Elm

Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

I want you to Slow down I just want it all To slow down; I want to make a forest Of a moment And live in that forest For ever Before you go

I understand that the way you stop time is by stopping being ruled by it. [Tom Hazard]

As well as being highly critical of everything Nora did, and everything Nora wanted and everything Nora believed, unless it was related to swimming, Nora had also felt that simply to be in his presence was to commit some kind of invisible crime.

Take note of how much space you take up when telling your story. Are your feet far apart or close together? Generally, men take up more space, which has been recognized as a sign of power and being confident. Are your hands and arms moving as you speak? If so, it can add emphasis. Be sure, though, that they are not moving too much and distracting from what you're saying.

Jesus said, 'Where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I in their midst.'

The only thing you can control in this life is what you do and how you choose to live the next few minutes. There is no place else to go but here.

Patricia listened, deliberate and self-contained. Under the subtle terms of the meta-meeting, the pursing of her white lips was almost ostentatious. She placed her attention upon him in the same way that she might place her hand on the head of a small dog. She can't be trusted. No, of course she couldn't. But isn't that thrilling – the presence of a grown-up, a player in the market, the alluring silences of power?

We must also cultivate courageous energy: the commitment to remain present with whatever arises to consciousness, without grasping or resisting anything that comes to the fore of the mind.

Hell is destruction from the presence of the Lord, Th2 1:9. It is a perpetual banishment from the fountain of all good. This is the choice of sinners; and so shall their doom be, to their eternal confusion.

It is a great provocation to God for us to question his presence, providence, or promise, especially for his Israel to do it, who are so peculiarly bound to trust him.

It is very fit, and of good use, that ministers should be ordained publicly, plebe praesente – in the presence of the common people, according to the usage of the primitive church.