Quotes About Presence

When I dance, I dance; when I sleep, I sleep. Nay, and when I walk alone in a beautiful Orchard, if my Thoughts are some part of the Time taken up with strange Occurrences, I some part of the Time call them back again to my Walk, or to the Orchard, to the Sweetness of the Solitude, and to my self.

She holds her head as high as if she were beautiful, and holds her body as if she were strong.

In the presence of a reader of Teilhard De Chardin I feel disarmed, nonplussed, ready to break down in tears.

That night, the three of us slept, arms wrapped around each other, on the double bed, though nothing sexual happened. As though we simply needed to protect ourselves; as though we could feel some dark presence, some evil subterranean force moving about the island.

mais un auteur c'est avant tout un être humain, présent dans ses livres, qu'il écrive très bien ou très mal en définitive importe peu, l'essentiel est qu'il écrive et qu'il soit, effectivement, présent dans ses livres

Cuando desaparece la sexualidad, lo que aparece es el cuerpo del otro, con su presencia vagamente hostil; los ruidos, los movimientos, los olores; y la presencia misma de ese cuerpo que ya no podemos tocar, ni santificar mediante el contacto, se convierte poco a poco en algo incómodo; desgraciadamente, nada de esto es nuevo.

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What constitutes charm? A presence, a capacity to command attention, an innate conviction of one's own uniqueness, combined, as often as not, with the more manipulative ability of making the interlocutor believe he has one's undivided attention and has gained a certain indefinable something from the encounter.

Despite spending a whole day on it, my end result read like every boilerplate in the handbook. What church didn't want a superb preacher with a lively intellect and a contagious sense of humor? Who didn't want a warm presence with a progressive social conscience, the management skills of a corporate CEO, and the work-life boundaries of a New Age life coach?

The Empress Marie-Louise once asked me if I believed in ghosts. 'I find it hard to believe in something I've never seen,' I told her. But perhaps ghosts aren't meant to be seen. Perhaps they are meant to be felt.

perhaps ghosts aren't meant to be seen. Perhaps they are meant to be felt.

It's real. I saw it. It isn't alive.

you are right where you should be / now act like it

I'm now learning how to distinguish when I'm acting and when I'm not acting - offstage as well as onstage.

The angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone. george eliot

We waste a lot of time running after people we could have caught by just standing still.

Most of us can easily do two things at once; what's all but impossible is to do one thing at once.

Don't look for God where He is needed most; if you didn't bring Him there, He isn't there.

Think not that when thou art dry and darksom in the presence of God, with faith and silence, that thou do'st nothing, that thou losest time, and that thou are idle, because not to wait on God, according to the saying of St. Bernard (Tom.5.in Fract. de vit. solit.c.8.p. 90.), is the greatest idleness

Una mujer que con su sola presencia aligeraba la pesadumbre de vivir.

Being in control of the mind means that literally anything that happens can be a source of joy. Feeling a breeze on a hot day, seeing a cloud reflected on the glass facade of a high-rise, working on a business deal, watching a child play with a puppy, drinking a glass of water can all be felt as deeply satisfying experiences that enrich one's life.

Nosotros siempre estamos luchando por vivir –solía decir Ralph Waldo Emerson–, pero nunca vivimos.»

Ask yourself whether you are happy," said J. S. Mill, "and you cease to be so." It is by being fully involved with every detail of our lives, whether good or bad, that we find happiness, not by trying to look for it directly.

We are always getting to live," as Ralph Waldo Emerson used to say, "but never living." Or as poor Frances learned in the children's story, it is always bread and jam tomorrow, never bread and jam today.