Quotes About Existence

I would suggest to you that at this moment you are the only self that you have ever had; you've never had a childhood; there wasn't a five-minute-ago time.

Our past affects us, our present affects us, and even our future can affect us. We live in the relative world of time and space.

Pain and suffering only occur in temporal time. They don't occur in the world of forever. They only occur in limited transient time, which is a state of mind.

You may have had countless lives, and many more stretching before you, and what else have you got to do with your time?

Free yourself from happiness and unhappiness. Realize there is something beyond both and yet, revel in your time, revel in this world.

For a person who lives in time, differences are the most important thing because they represent your existence.

When there's no difference, there's no time, no world, no separativity - and there's no you ... nor is there an I.

Change can only exist in time. Without time there is no change. Change can only exist with a background of that which is changeless, otherwise it has no definition.

Most beings enjoy existence so time comes into being.

The dreams of existence of that we call time, space, matter, subject, object, yin, yang - everything flows forth from this tai chi.

Once we have conceived of time and space, once we have accepted their existence, then that implies that there is a structural order to bonding realities.

The period of meditation is a time when we go back to the source. We go back to what we were before we were born.

If there were no world, no time, no space, no condition, if none of us existed, that would be meditation.

We live in a sensual world, and at the same time we live beyond it - billions of dimensions that are nonphysical, we experience them when we stop thought.

Your experiences in the causal dimensions will give you knowledge of time, space, dimensionality and what lies beyond all these things.

Beyond mind, beyond time, beyond space there is immortal awareness.

You're going to go to stillness. When that happens, the world collapses. There is no time, no space, no viewer, no viewing, no object in view.

The perceptual body that you are at the time of death ceases to be. It is not structured quite so tightly.

The essence of your awareness field definitely goes on after death. It goes through death, it goes into non-physical states for a time, and then eventually is pulled back and it reincarnates.

From the point of view of enlightenment, none of this has ever even been. All time and space, all the conditions that are apparent in the absence of enlightenment are unreal.

Lightning and thunder need time, the light of the stars needs time, deeds need time, even after they are done, to be seen and heard.

"God", "the immortality of the soul", "salvation", "the beyond"-even as a child I had no time for such notions, I do not waste any time upon them-maybe I was never childish enough for that?

Once again she shuddered with the evidence that time was not passing, as she had just admitted, but that it was turning in a circle.

The human need for language is not simply for the transmission of meaning, it is at the same time listening to and affirming a person's existence.