Quotes About Existence

The gnostic is Muslim in that his whole being is surrendered to God; he has no separate individual existence of his own. He is like the birds and the flowers in his yielding to the Creator; like them, like all the elements of the cosmos, he reflects the Divine to his own degree. He reflects it actively, however, they passively; his participation is a conscious one.

Traditional art extended itself to the whole of life and left an imprint of beauty upon the everyday existence of human beings rather than being concerned only with paintings that we put in museums and at best visit a few Sundays each year.

Why was I not overcome with nausea? At the time I had no such reaction. Perhaps nausea is simply an unconscious device of the egoist, who, when he hears of horrors outside the course of his present serene existence, allows only his stomach to respond

Dance resides within us all. Some find it when joy conquers sorrow, others express it through celebration of movements; and then there are those... whose existence is dance

Space and Time are the modes by which we think, not the conditions in which we live' – Albert Einstein

Inside this robe there is only God.

You have read but a page and you fancy yourself beholding eternity.

Under this cloak is nothing but God. Introduce me as "Nobody, Son of Nobody".

to be, or not to be?

There is a universal, intelligent, life force that exists within everyone and everything. It resides within each one of use as a deep wisdom, an inner knowing. We can access this wonderful source of knowledge and wisdom through our intuition, an inner sense that tells us what feels right and true for us at any given moment.

Being is the basic experience of being alive and conscious. It is the experience we have when we're fully focused in the present moment, the experience of being totally complete and at rest within ourselves.

My point is that death is more tragic than life, than any life, because every life has hope of some kind.

What a world, thought Kugel; whoever you were, wherever you were, whatever time of the day or night, you could open your back door and call out I know you're out there motherfucker, and nine times out of ten you'd be right.

SOLOMON KUGEL His performance, of late, had been subpar. Born, unfortunately. Died eventually.

Remember your grandfather's last words, Jonah would tell his children: Life is nothing more than a little why.

A life without love is a waste. "Should I look for spiritual love, or material, or physical love?", don't ask yourself this question. Discrimination leads to discrimination. Love doesn't need any name, category or definition. Love is a world itself. Either you are in, at the center…either you are out, yearning.

The paradox of reality is that no image is as compelling as the one which exists only in the mind's eye.

We can tell the world that there is life after death, but the world really seems to be wondering if there is life before death.

Few people are interested in a religion that has nothing to say to the world and offers them only life after death, when what people are really wondering is whether there is life before death.

The diffeence between a fake death and a real one is slim. Mara

The possibility of eternal life begins the day we are born, not the day we die.

Look directly into every mirror. Realize our reflection is the first sentence to a story, and our story starts: We were here.

everything she meant to say was you've given a worth and happiness to my life that I had no right to believe could ever exist

There's 6.5 billion people curled up like fists protesting death, but every breath we take has to be given back; a nine year old boy taught me that.