Quotes About Presence

We would like only, for once, to get to where we are already.

Whitney: Where is your home? Clayton: Wherever you are.

It takes that je ne sais quoi which we call sophistication for a woman to be magnificent in a drawing-room when her faculties have departed but she herself has not yet gone home.

The discovery of God lies in the daily and the ordinary, not in the spectacular and the heroic. If we cannot find God in the routines of home and shop, then we will not find Him at all.

This is the sphinx of the hearthstone, the little god of domesticity, whose presence turns a house into a home.

I need to stop carving out four-hour chunks to do random things and go home and watch my children grow up.

There are people with their iPads are taking pictures so much that they're not experiencing the moment. They go home and look at the pictures later.

Our job as writers is to listen, to come home to the four corners of the earth.

I wasn´t expecting to come home to you, but now that you´re here, I have no intention of letting you leave." Patch :D (p. 295)

Perhaps the most radical act we can commit is to stay home.

No matter how hard you try to be present at home, you're always doing the things that you have to do.

Every one in his own house and God in all of them.

Here no elsewhere underwrites my existence.

Where thou art that is Home.

Living consciously involves being genuine; it involves listening and responding to others honestly and openly; it involves being in the moment.

At first I was iridescent, then I became transparent, finally I was absent

When one is frank, one's very presence is a compliment.

As soon as you honor the present moment, all unhappiness and struggle dissolve.

Know your own Self. Honor your own Self. Find and be who you really are, at the deepest level of your own being. Be present in your own presence. Give yourself the gift of your own Self.

If one truly has lost hope, one would not be on hand to say so.

In a coma, you don't dream, you just hope that someone sits with you.

As long as we have some definite idea about or some hope in the future, we cannot really be serious with the moment that exists right now.

There is never a reason to lose hope. Jesus says: "I am with you until the end of the world.

I can't help you. Not really. I can only show up with a bright heart and hope that I get you at the right micro-moment with the perfect dose of light that helps you see what you already know.