#Presence Quotes

“I have been long a sleeper; but I trustMy absence doth neglect no great designWhich by my presence might have been concluded.”

“It is not night when I do see your face, Therefore I think I am not in the night; Nor doth this wood lack worlds of company, For you in my respect are all the world: Then how can it be said I am alone, When all the world is here to look on me?”

“In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows.”

“If you visit your friend, why need you apologize for not having visited him, and waste his time and deface your own act? Visit him now.”

“To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.”

“Let us be poised, wise and our own today.”

“You must treat the days respectfully, you must be a day yourself, and not interrogate it like a college professor.”

“Let us not look east and west for materials of conversation, but rest in presence and unity. A just feeling will fast enough supply fuel for discourse, if speaking be more grateful than silence. When people come to see us, we foolishly prattle, lest we be inhospitable. But things said for conversation are chalk eggs. Don't say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.”

“Life only avails, not the having lived.”

“A servant wants to be rewarded for what he does. A lover wants only to be in love's presence, that ocean whose depth will never be known.”

“The day is conscious of itself.”

“Come on sweetheart let's adore one another before there is no more of you and me”

“Today, let us swim wildly, joyously in gratitude.”

“Silenceis an ocean. Speech is a river.When the ocean is searching for you, don't walkinto the language-river. Listen to the ocean,and bring your talky business to an end.Traditional words are just babblingin that presence, and babbling is a substitutefor sight.”

“Your name is upon my tongue your image is in my sight your memory is in my heart where can I send these words that I write ?”

“When I am with you, we stay up all night. When you're not here, I can't go to sleep. Praise God for those two insomnias! And the difference between them.”

“Let go of your mind and then be mindful. Close your ears and listen!”

“Without you the instruments would die. One sits close beside you. Another takes a long kiss. The tambourine begs, Touch my skin so I can be myself. Let me feel you enter each limb bone by bone, that what died last night can be whole today. Why live some soberer way, and feel you ebbing out? I won't do it. Either give me enough wine or leave me alone, now that I know how it is to be with you in constant conversation.”

“In the gardenI see only your faceFrom trees and blossomsI inhale only your fragrance.”

“Listen to presences inside poems.”

“Take sips of this pure wine being poured. Don't mind that you've been given a dirty cup.”

“The Ripe FigNow that You live here in my chest,anywhere we sit is a mountaintop.And those other images,which have enchanted peoplelike porcelain dolls from China,which have made men and women weepfor centuries, even those have changed now.What used to be pain is a lovely benchwhere we can rest under the roses.A left hand has become a right.A dark wall, a window.A cushion in a shoe heel,the leader of the community!Now silence. What we sayis poison to someand nourishing to others.What we say is a ripe fig,but not every bird that flieseats figs.”

“There is a way between voice and presence, where information flows. In disciplined silence it opens; with wandering talk it closes.”

“Close your eyes, fall in Love, stay there.”

“If you were a blade of grass or a tiny flowerI will pitch my tent in your shadow.Only your presence revives my withered heart.You are the candle that lights the whole worldand I am an empty vessel for your light.”

“Its good to leave each day behind, like flowing water, free of sadness. Yesterday is gone and its tale told. Today new seeds are growing.”

“When the ocean surges, don't let me just hear it. Let it splash inside my chest!”

“Do not look back,No one knows how the world ever began.Do not fear the future, Nothing lasts forever.If you dwell on the past or future,You will miss the moment.”

“The purpose of dancing isn't to end up at a particular spot on the floor. The purpose of dancing - and of life - is to enjoy every moment and every step, regardless of where you are when the music ends.”

“...this moment... is the only physical reality you have.”

“Wherever you are there you are!”

“Keep silent, because the world of silence is a vast fullness”

“The breezes at dawn have secrets to tell you Don't go back to sleep! You must ask for what you really want. Don't go back to sleep! People are going back and forth across the doorsill where the two worlds touch, The door is round and open Don't go back to sleep!”

“Friend, our closeness is this: anywhere you put your foot, feel me in the firmness under you.”

“I cannot sleep in your presence In your absence, tears prevent me you watch me my beloved on each sleepiness night and Only you see the difference”

“Love’s secret is always lifting its head out from under the covers, “Here I am!””

“No more words. In the name of this place we drink in with our breathing, stay quiet like a flower. So the nightbirds will start singing.”

“From the Distance You only See My Light; Come closer and You will Know that I Am You.”

“Do not leave me, hide in my heart like a secret, wind around my head like a turban. "I come and go as I please," you say, "swift as a heartbeat." You can tease me as much as you like but never leave me.”

“This silence, this moment, every moment, If it's genuinely inside you, brings what you need.”

“Your hand opens and closes, opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralysed. Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding, the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated as birds' wings.”

“Every object, every being...is a jar full of delight.”

“If I gaze at my beloved she may feel embarrassed and if I do not, she will feel neglected. I can see the stars reflecting in the calm water of her face but if I look away I lose my clarity.”

“Every moment is made glorious by the light of love.”

“Concentrate on the Essence, concentrate on the Light.”

“Happy, not from anything that happens. Warm, not from fire or a hot bath. Light, I register zero on a scale.”

“Even if you are loaded down with guilt about everything you did in the past, you still are experiencing the guilt in the moment.”

“To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom. It is not the part of men, but of fanatics, or of mathematicians, if you will, to say, that, the shortness of life considered, it is not worth caring whether for so short a duration we were sprawling in want, or sitting high. Since our office is with moments, let us husband them.”

“Those who listened to Lord Chatham felt that there was something finer in the man, than anything which he said.”

“When I get on the dance floor, my purpose in being on the dance floor is not to end up at another spot when the music stops. The purpose of the dance is to enjoy every step along the way.”