Quotes About Presence

Good writers are visible just behind their words.

A good thing to do when one is sitting, eating, and resting is to have a conversation.

There are moments when you get out of your own head and you exist in the moment, and that can be good acting.

Wouldst thou ever roam abroad? See, what is good lies by thy side. Only learn to catch happiness, for happiness is ever by you.

99.9% of being a good parent is just being present with your child. On the flipside of that, 100% of being happy is just being present.

What scares me is not living up to be a good enough father to my son and letting down my family - not being there enough and not being able to give enough of yourself.

I respond in the moment which is what makes me a good actor.

Angels will frequently - even when they're comforting us with good news - touch the awe of God's eternal presence and drive us to our knees before our God of glory.

Being with my kids is really important to me, being a good dad and being around a lot.

Try putting your iPhones down every once in a while and look at people's faces.

There's no there. That elusive 'there' with the job, the beach house, the dream, it's not out there. There is here. It's in you... right now.

Darken your room, shut the door, empty your mind. You are still in great company.

The Great Spirit is everywhere; He hears whatever is in our minds and our hearts, and it is not necessary to speak to Him in a loud voice.

A picture does a great job, but it's not nearly like being there.

Great actors try to dismiss all ideas from their conscious mind in order to provide an experience that is real.

It's what I learn from the great actors that I work with. Stillness. That's all and that's the hardest thing.

I have been long a sleeper; but I trust My absence doth neglect no great design Which by my presence might have been concluded.

One sign of a great actor is when he can be alone by himself on the screen, doing almost nothing, and producing one of a film's defining moments.

I call this book The Intent to Live because great actors don't seem to be acting, they seem to be actually living.

In a really great way, you simultaneously try to take up as little and as much space as possible.

A sense of the universe, a sense of the all, the nostalgia which seizes us when confronted by nature, beauty, music - these seem to be an expectation and awareness of a Great Presence.

I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when nobody calls.

One of the hallmarks of great men is that they never make us conscious of their presence, instead they dwelve into our unconscious state and transform into conscious being!

Happiness lies not in finding what is missing, but in finding what is present.