Quotes About Presence

Each moment in time we have it all, even when we think we don't.

La vida, perquè sigui vida, s'ha de viure a poc a poc...

She was the one who's life my presence can do magic, For that I left my dream it was the only logic

The veiled woman is not simply an obstacle in the field of visibility and control, but her veiled presence also seems to provide the Western subject with a condition which is the inverse of Bentham's omnipotent gaze. The loss of control does not imply a mere loss of sight, but a complete reversal of positions: her body completely invisible to the European observer except for her eyes, 'the veiled woman can see without being seen'" (p.43).

Amar - disse ele - é estar sempre chegando.

Enquanto ouvir estes relatos você se guarde quieto. O silêncio é que fabrica as janelas por onde o mundo se transparenta. Não escreva, deixe esse caderno no chão. Se comporte como água no vidro. Quem é gota sempre pinge, quem é cacimbo se evapora. Neste asilo, o senhor se aumente de muita orelha. É que aqui vivemos muito oralmente.

Ahora puedo decírtelo. No es la muerte la que concede ausencia. El muerto aún está presente: todo el pasado le pertenece. La única manera de dejar de existir es la locura. Solo un loco está ausente.

A melhor maneira de fugir é ficar parado.

Mulheres são como ilhas: sempre longe, mas ofuscando todo o mar em redor

Meu pai era um homem que enchia o mundo, o pé dele entrava em casa e sentíamos o balanço do seu peso como se, de repente, estivéssemos num pequeno barco". My father was a men that filled the world, his foot entered homeand we felt the the swing of its weight, like, suddenly, we were in a little boat.

Where does your lap go when you stand up? Where does your fist go when you open your hand? The same place God goes when you diminish life.

We sometimes enjoy people's presence most when we register their absence.

In a close-up, choose just one eye of the actor you're playing opposite, don't skip between the eyes or you will just look shifty;

There is a dark cloud that is hiding the Beloved of my heart and I long to plunge myself into His divine Being, but I am unable to do so." She experienced no consolation. Nor did that matter. What really counted was that her heavenly Bridegroom was with her still

Our vocation is a call to listening. To adoration of the One who dwells among us.

We are starved for the unknown God. A few, like Stephen, will consume him in a sacrament. Others, like myself, are driven out into the waste places in search of his presence. That elusive presence that is neither here nor there but arrives, strangely, when we are becoming resigned to absence.

He knew that in a sense he was a word, as Ruth had been a word to this woman by simply being herself. A word of presence—I am with you. I feel your suffering. I hear your cries beneath your smiling face and your statements so calculated to shock. I grieve with you, and I grieve in your place, as you will not allow yourself to grieve, because you think there is nothing beyond grief.

Though the fear of what was coming returned to him a little, he looked upward to a presence and spoke with it and listened to the answering silence. He knew now that this silence was not absence or negation. It was the language transcending all language, and it crossed the void that man's will had made between himself and God.

If we cite the Bible, and yet fail to live according to its codes, the Bible becomes just another book. But when we live it, it becomes powerful. If you believe it, the words of scripture say that we become living epistles in whose life others read the presence of God.

If we cite the Bible, and yet fail to live according to its codes, the Bible becomes just another book. But when we live it, it becomes powerful. If you believe it, the words of scripture say that we come living epistles in whose life others read the presence of God.

If you're doing something you have to concentrate on you can't also be thinking about doing it, and if you're thinking about doing it then you can't actually be doing it. Yes?" Excerpt From: Michael Frayn. "Copenhagen

The acting area is a sacred space... where the actor cannot die.

Not that i wrote it on the wall, but i was here... i lived and that's all that matters.

The greatest gift you can offer anyone or anything, is your undivided attention.