Quotes About Existence

Animals have attained such perfection in their existence, while man has never known such tranquility. I have always believed that animals listen to one perfect voice — nature's voice — and do as it bids them. We, on the other hand, listen only to ourselves, and we do as we please. Our ego, our pride, is generally our instructor, instead of reality, intellect, or even common sense. We live our lives superficially, led by our personalities.

One of the most fundamental of human fears is that our existence will go unnoticed.

A Christian man ponders eternity for decades, only to find it's fifteen minutes long.

We lie in the lap of immense intelligence.

There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence

People are always getting ready to live but never living.

There is a kind of latent omniscience not only in every man, but in every particle. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

Standing on the bare ground… all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God.

'Tis curious that we only believe as deeply as we live.

He takes men out of time and makes them feel eternity.

Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.

We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.

This world we live in is but thickened light.

Tell them dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for being

From within or from behind, a light shines through us upon things, and makes us aware that we are nothing, but the light is all.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Far or forgot to me is nearShadow and sunlight are the sameThe vanished gods to me appearAnd one to me are shame and fame.They reckon ill who leave me outWhen me they fly, I am the wingsI am the doubter and the doubt,And I the hymn the Brahmin sings.

Tell them dear, that if eyes were made for seeing,Then beauty is its own excuse for beingWhy thou wert there, O rival of the roseI never sought to ask, I never knewBut, in my simple ignorance supposeThe selfsame power that brought me there brought you.

Be here now.

If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.

Travel in all the four quarters of the earth, yet you will find nothing anywhere. Whatever there is, is only here.

The world is not outside you.

There is no Truth. There is only the truth within each moment.

There is neither creation nor destruction, neither destiny nor free will, neither path nor achievement. This is the final truth.