Quotes About Existence

To write as if your life depended on it; to write across the chalkboard, putting up there in public the words you have dredged; sieved up in dreams, from behind screen memories, out of silence-- words you have dreaded and needed in order to know you exist.

The truth is that you already are what you are seeking.

Awareness isn't something we own; awareness isn't something we possess. Awareness is actually what we are.

The greatest dream that we can have is to forget that we are dreaming.

You are an incredible mystery that you will never figure out. To be this mystery consciously is the greatest joy.

In truth, we are life itself. When we see and perceive that we are the totality of life, we are no longer afraid of it; we no longer feel afraid of birth, life, and death. But until we see that, we will see life as intimidating, as a barrier we somehow have to get through.

The more in harmony you are with the flow of your own existence, the more magical life becomes.

Religion's primary function is to awaken within us the experience of the sublime and to connect us with the mystery of existence.

The freedom that's discovered isn't, "I have attained enlightenment." The freedom is, "My God, there is nobody here to be enlightened. Therefore, there is nobody there to be unenlightened." That's the light. Only the concept "me" thinks it needs enlightenment, freedom, liberation, and emancipation. It thinks it needs to find God or get a Ferrari—it's all the same thing when you get right down to it.

In awakening, what's revealed to us is that we are not a thing, nor a person, nor even an entity. What we are is that which manifests as all things, as all experiences, as all personalities. We are that which dreams the whole world into existence. Spiritual awakening reveals that that which is unspeakable is actually what we are.

We've become trapped in a world of dreams, a world in which we live primarily in our minds.

Be an open space for whatever arises. Notice that you are the space in which everything arises. When everything is allowed to arise, you have the opportunity to perceive That which does not arise or subside. You Are That. (p. 32)

It's just natural. It's not better than or higher than anything or anybody. It's simply the natural state of being. It's totally democratic. It's the inheritance of everybody.

Who am I? Meditate on that. Seek the Seeker. (p. 32)

Oneness is when there isn't another. Oneness is—there is only this. There is no that over there, there is only this. And that's all there is. There is only this, and as soon as you say what this is, you've just defined what it's not. This is only realized in the utter demolition of everything that it's not. Then that awakening is an awakening outside of everything that comes and goes. It is a total waking up outside of time.

A good ritual is meant to evoke the mystery of being, the mystery of our own existence, the mystery of life, the mystery of God. It's meant to evoke that sense of eternity that shines through the latticework of time and space. That's really what ritual is for—to put us in touch with that sense of eternity, with the sense of the sacred.

Jesus said, "Blessed is he who came into being before he came into being.

There exists only the present instant … a Now which always and without end is itself new. MEISTER ECKHART

It's the way spirit moves in the world of time and space. That's what a human body-mind is: an extension of spirit in time and space.

The Gospel of Thomas presents the Kingdom of Heaven as something that exists right here and right now. In fact, it's all about what's right here and right now. In it, we find Jesus saying, "The Kingdom of the Father is spread out upon the earth, and men do not see it.

Night, o my mother, from whose womb I took my being.

Death is easier than a wretched life and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.

In the midst of life, we are in death.

That's the secret of existence. We're all a little mad.