Quotes About Existence

All you boys seem to think about is the things you can see and touch—that ain't living. It's the things you can feel inside of you—that's what living is made for.

a paradigm where information rather than matter is the basic reality

Purified Annie Hunt, spiritualized Annie Hunt. Purified Annie Hunt, spiritualized Annie Hunt. Purified Annie Hunt, spiritualized Annie Hunt. How can we thank you? May peace prevail on Earth. On behalf of humanity, we thank the love of the universe for the purified existence of Annie Hunt.

Because to respect one's own existence, and the existence of others, is in tune with the great universal will, these positive words attracted a flow of shining energy from all over the universe.

A basic gestalt principle is to accentuate that which exists rather than merely attempting to change it. Nothing can change until it is first accepted.

T]he two fundamental tragedies of human existence, frustrated love and death

We do not belong to this material world that science constructs for us. We are not in it; we are outside. We are only spectators.

The world is given to me only once, not one existing and one perceived. Subject and object are only one. The barrier between them cannot be said to have broken down as a result of recent experience in the physical sciences, for this barrier does not exist.

Consciousness cannot be accounted for in physical terms. For consciousness is absolutely fundamental. It cannot be accounted for in terms of anything else.

We do not belong to this material world that science constructs for us. We are not in it; we are outside. We are only spectators. The reason why we believe that we are in it, that we belong to the picture, is that our bodies are in the picture. Our bodies belong to it. Not only my own body, but those of my friends, also of my dog and cat and horse, and of all the other people and animals. And this is my only means of communicating with them.

There is obviously only one alternative, namely the unification of minds or consciousnesses. Their multiplicity is only apparent, in truth there is only one mind.

Plato was the first to envisage the idea of timeless existence and to emphasize it—against reason—as a reality, more [real] than our actual experience…

The scientific picture of the real world around me is very deficient. It gives a lot of factual information... [but] it cannot tell us a word about red and blue, bitter and sweet, physical pain and physical delight; it knows nothing of beautiful and ugly, good or bad, God and eternity. So, in brief, we do not belong to this material world that science constructs for us... the scientific worldview contains of itself... not a word about our own ultimate scope or destination.

The reason why our sentient, percipient and thinking ego is met nowhere within our scientific world picture can easily be indicated in seven words: because it is itself that world picture. It is identical with the whole and therefore cannot be contained in it as a part of it

In no case is there a loss of personal existence to deplore. Nor will there ever be.

The plurality that we perceive is only an appearance; it is not real. Vedantic philosophy... has sought to clarify it by a number of analogies, one of the most attractive being the many-faceted crystal which, while showing hundreds of little pictures of what is in reality a single existent object, does not really multiply that object.

The scientific picture of the real world around me is deficient. It gives a lot of factual information, puts all our experience in a magnificently consistent order. But it is ghastly silent about all and sundry that is really near to our heart, that really matters to us. It cannot tell us a word about red and blue, bitter and sweet, physical pain and physical delight; it knows nothing of beautiful and ugly, good or bad, God and eternity.

MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO

Becoming is conscious, being unconscious.

A mathematical truth is timeless, it does not come into being when we discover it.

Uma verdade matemática é intemporal, não ganha existência quando a descobrimos. Contudo, sua descoberta é um evento bem real, pode ser uma emoção, como um grande presente de uma fada.

The world is given to me only once, not one existing and one perceived. Subject and object are only one.

We must all take on faith the stories of our birth, for though we are in them, we are not yet present.

Hell," he said with a grin. "It's early yet. It's always early, while you still alive.