Quotes About Existence

All artforms are in the service of the greatest of all arts: the art of living.

In order to be happy we require all kinds of supports to our self-esteem. We are human beings, therefore human beings are the purpose of god's creation

Those who fear life are already three parts dead.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3-parts dead.

And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence

I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan is a fiction. The Christian god may exist; so may the gods of Olympus, or of ancient Egypt, or of Babylon. But no one of these hypotheses is more probable than any other: they lie outside the region of even probable knowledge, and therefore there is no reason to consider any of them.

There is no life without consciousness; there is no consciousness without life.

Men are apt to turn aside somewhat impatiently from an argument about the Nature and Existence of the Deity, because they consider that the question is a metaphysical one which leads nowhere; a problem the resolution of which is beyond our faculties, and the study of which is at once useless and dangerous; they forget that action is ruled by thought, and that our ideas about God are therefore of vast practical importance.

The rhythm of sunrise, the rhythm of sunset, filled her life.

Well. I don't suppose you have to believe in ghosts to know that we are all haunted, all of us, by things we can see and feel and guess at, and many more things that we can't.

remember who you really are: a spiritual being having a deeply personal, human experience.

No. Silence is something. This is nothing. Why couldn't I hear it before? I think it has been there always. From the beginning of time.' He put out his hand and stubbed it on my arm, stared at it. 'At the end of the world, at the beginning of the world; under the sea and over the sky; at the root and crown of the universe: nothing. At all. That's what I heard. What I hear.' He leaned forward. 'Do you understand?

The high fear was over, and nothing was left but the fear that never stops, the one that asks and asks, *How shall I stay alive today?*

Voice comes from a moment beyond the alienation of culture, it is heard before there is an "I" to listen to it.

And marking off time struck me as something like counting empty spaces—spaces you know can't ever be filled.

Look at everything as though you were seeing it for the first time or the last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.

It is important to understand that the system of advantage is perpetuated when we do not acknowledge its existence.

All created beings are unmanifest in their beginning, manifest in their interim state, and unmanifest again when they are annihilated. So what need is there for lamentation

You exist in time, but you belong to eternity.

Meditation is nothing but coming to terms with your inner emptiness: recognizing it, not escaping; living through it, not escaping; being through it, not escaping. Then suddenly the emptiness becomes the fullness of life.

in the absolute world there is no such difference,because in the absolute everything is spiritual

Nothing is born which Death makes not subject of his state.

Morn after morn dispels the dark, Bearing our lives away; Absorbed in cares we fail to mark How swift our years decay; Some maddening draught hath drugged our souls, In love with vital breath, Which still the same sad chart unrolls, Birth, eld, disease, and death.

Time did not fly, yet we are gone.