Quotes About Existence

Life is the path. Can the path be seen? Observe the path and you are far from it. Without observation how can one know they are on the path? The path cannot be seen, nor can it not be unseen. Perception is delusion; abstraction is nonsensical. Your path is freedom. Name it and it vanishes.

Florence is an old soul—I'm sure she has been here on earth many times before this incarnation.

How are you sure we're alive?

Plato theorized that the world could be described in three dimensions. The first dimension is the world of the ideal forms (which is the primary reality). The second is the material world created by God. The third is psychological, which is a reflection of the ideal through material.

Reality doesn't care about anyone's moods,

If you insist on reducing it to its basic elements, it's the sure and simple knowledge that there's something more out there, something greater than yourself, than mankind: a grand plan, a design that can't be comprehended by you or by any other human being, because it is numinous, it is God's design, something only He can fathom.

To survive is not enough. - Bujun saying

The past is littered with regret, the future bound by anxiety. The time is always now.

The first principle of Gnosticism is the nonrecognition of reality.

The spirit as system requires the murder of God; and, conversely, in order to commit the murder of God the system is fashioned.

Men can let the contents of the world grow to such an extent that the world and God disappear behind them, but they cannot annul the human condition itself. This remains alive in each individual soul; and when God is invisible behind the world, the contents of the world will become new gods; when the symbols of transcendent religiosity are banned, new symbols develop from the inner-worldly language of science to take their place.

A las religiones espirituales que encuentran su ens realissimum en la causa u origen del mundo [Weltgrund], las denominaremos religiones supramundanas. En cambio, a aquellas otras que descubren lo divino en contenidos que son parte del propio mundo, las denominaremos religiones intramundanas.

Cuando la entidad colectiva intramundana ocupa el lugar de Dios, la persona se convierte en miembro al servicio del contenido mundano sacralizado, esto es, deviene instrumento(...). El problema de su modo de vida de su existencia física y espiritual solo resulta importante en relación con la existencia de la comunidad a la que pertenece(...).

Los seres humanos pueden dejar que los contenidos mundanos se desarrollen hasta borrar del horizonte los conceptos de mundo y Dios, pero lo que no pueden hacer es eliminar la problematicidad de su propia existencia. Esta continúa viva en el alma de cada individuo, y cuando Dios queda eclipsado por el mundo, son los contenidos del mundo los que devienen dioses.

I would rather believe God doesn't exist than believe he doesn't care.

Il n'y a pas de solution à la vie sinon vivre.

Was bleibt? Nichts als die Qual, die Qual überlebt zu haben

It is what it is

Man always dies before he is fully born.

In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead.

A new question has arisen in modern man's mind, the question, namely, whether life is worth living...No sensible answer can be given to the question...because the question does not make any sense.

There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by unfolding of his powers.

There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives to his life by the unfolding of his powers.

Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.