Quotes About Existence

Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.

How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.

Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.

The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.

Religion is not a department of life it is something that enters into the whole of it.

But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful.

Life exists only at this very moment, and in this moment it is infinite and eternal, for the present moment is infinitely small; before we can measure it, it has gone, and yet it exists forever….

The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.

Try to imagine what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up… now try to imagine what it was like to wake up having never gone to sleep.

We do not "come into" this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. As the ocean "waves," the universe "peoples."

With our passing, might some lost contribution of ours leave the planet a bit more impoverished? It is possible that, instead of heaving a huge biological sigh of relief, the world without us would miss us?

To interviewers who lamented that life in the time of plague had become so unreal, I'd reply that no, actually *this* was real. What's unreal is the fantasy we humans have been living: growing on and on, in denial of the obvious.

You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.

You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.

it's a sad world we live in when a human being leaves so little of a mark that no one even realizes it when he's gone.

From this it does not of course follow that there are no natural or human rights; it only follows that no one could have known that there were. And this at least raises certain questions. But we do not need to be distracted into answering them, for the truth is plain: there are no such rights, and belief in them is one with belief in witches and in unicorns.

I realise how pleasant life can be if I stop thinking about it. It is much simpler to exist than to live.

Nothing endures, except nothing itself.

All data is stale. The photons reaching your eyes are stale. They tell you that you are looking at something real, but you have no information that the objects before you still exist. They may have vanished into oblivion the instant those photons took wing.

For a moment I think we were turned into information, and that in that instant we were linked to every other piece of information ever known; every thought ever thought, or at least ever captured by the light.

And the knowledge that humanity was not alone in the universe would be as relevant to most as the knowledge that protons were built of quarks.