Quotes About Presence

Thus his music has gone, as he says, 'from being about place to becoming place.'55 In doing so, it has fulfilled his wish in the semantic meaning of enchantment, 'to be in a song': 'I no longer want to be outside the music, listening to it as an object apart. I want to inhabit the music, to be fully present and listening …'56

Rule of Improv Comedy: Be as present and observant as possible so you can see where an interaction is coming from, and where it wants to go. If you were to analyze really successful improv comedians like Jim Carrey, you will notice that he have a great knack for being in the moment.

Your ability to associate your presence with past great mood memories opens an opportunity for interpersonal intimacy.

Chatter requires a very finely-tuned sense of empathy, conversational techniques, and cultivating a presence – it's not about just going down a checklist of topics. It also requires reading between the lines of what people say, examining body language, and noting patterns of human interaction to different types of stimuli.

Remember, you're not doing nothing—you're taking action through nonaction.

It's like your shadow; you just can't shake it, it's always with you, and it's easy to forget about.

When you prepare and focus on what you need to say next, you are the opposite of present. You are stuck in your own head, and not listening or observing at all – you're just waiting for your turn to speak. This is a very common error. The results are also very common.

If you want to at least appear more present, you need to look people in the eye when talking to them.

Baptism is the sacramental doorway into the Church established by Jesus Christ. It removes our innate condition of original sin, washes away all actual sin and their effects, infuses sanctifying grace, illuminates with God's own presence, and incorporates the one baptized into the Body of Christ.

we human beings are not capable of multitasking. None of us are.

Je crois qu'on entend encore dans les entrées d'immeubles l'écho des pas de ceux qui avaient l'habitude de les traverser et qui, depuis, ont disparu. Quelque chose continue de vibrer après leur passage, des ondes de plus en plus faibles, mais que l'on capte si l'on est attentif.

Ever since, the Paris wherein I have tried to retrace her steps has remained as silent and deserted as it was on that day. I walk through empty streets. For me, they are always empty, even at dusk, during the rush hour, when the crowds are hurrying towards the mouths of the métro. I think of her in spite of myself, sensing an echo of her presence in this neighborhood or that.

Depuis, le Paris où j'ai tenté de retrouver sa trace est demeuré aussi désert et silencieux que ce jour-là. Je marche à travers les rues vides. Pour moi, elles le restent, même le soir, à l'heure des embouteillages, quand les gens se pressent vers les bouches de métro. Je ne peux pas m'empêcher de penser à elle et de sentir un écho de sa présence dans certains quartiers.

No hay mejor sistema para que se desvanezcan los fantasmas que mirarles a los ojos.

His absence is so big it's like he's there.

More real , more there , like it's just the most incredible thing in the world that we're both still alive and I feel my chest get all funny and tight and I think, Here she is, right here, my Viola, she came for me, she's here- And I find myself thinking how I want to take her hand again and never let it go, to feel the skin of it, the warmth of it, hold it tight against my own hand...

I don't know how much time passes with us just lying there, just feeling that the other is really there, really true, really alive, feeling the safety of him, his weight against mine, the roughness of his fingers touching my face, his warmth and his smell and the dustiness of his clothes, and we barely speak...

Here I am. Here we are. Here we go. Here is all that matters.

And if no one sees you, are you really there at all?

I don't believe in guardian angels, just people who are there for you and people who aren't.

But here, now, again, this was more than the body, or the mind, or the personality. It wasn't holy, that was a whole other mess, but it was something that could be touched only here.

Y si nadie te ve, se puede decir que estes ahi?

Nunca mas invisible -Pero hay cosas peores que ser invisible

He knew she wouldn't be in there – he couldn't hear the kettle boiling, which she always did first thing – but he'd found himself asking for her a lot lately when he entered rooms in the house.