Quotes About Existence

Either I am just what God intended me for, or God cannot 'carry out' His intentions, it would seem.

Just the fact that you get to live and breathe and interact with the world - that's pretty marvelous.

My forms are geometric, but they don't interact in a geometric sense. They're just forms that exist everywhere, even if you don't see them.

I have been interested in dreams, really since I was a kid. I have always been fascinated by the idea that your mind, when you are asleep, can create a world in a dream and you are perceiving it as though it really existed.

The interesting thing about history sometimes. is that you know these people existed, and you knew what jobs they did, but you don't know much about them as people, so you actually have to make them up.

It is possible to see the intermediate state between lives as being in a way more important than incarnate existence.

This may or may not appeal to you—this moving, this nomadic existence, and this nonattached life. I am not suggesting we all leave our relationships and homes and children. Not at all. I am proposing that we reconceive the dream. That we consider what would happen if security were not the point of our existence. That we find freedom, aliveness, and power not from what contains, locates, or protects us but from what dissolves, reveals, and expands us.

It is where we do not live that the dying comes.

se uma coisa não é nomeada, essa coisa não é vista e não existe.

When we are in good health, we all feel very real, solid, and permanent; and this is of all our illusions the most ridiculous, and also the most obviously useful from the point of view of the efficiency and preservation of the race.

The spiritual life is not a special career, involving abstraction from the world of things. It is a part of every man's life; and until he has realised it he is not a complete human being, has not entered into possession of all his powers. It

The individual is reminded that in him, no less than in the Archetypal Universe, real life must be born if real life is to be lived.

Certain facts of which too keen a perception would act detrimentally to the life-force are, for most men, impossible of realization: i.e. , the uncertainty of life, the decay of the body, the vanity of all things under the sun.

Man is left a conscious Something in the midst, so far as he knows, of Nothing: with no resources save the exploring of his own consciousness.

Why, after all, take as our standard a material world whose existence is affirmed by nothing more trustworthy than the sense-impressions of "normal men"; those imperfect and easily cheated channels of communication?

Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.

I did not know it was possible to be so miserable and live but I am told that this is a common experience.

So come sei con me. Di là da quella soglia, come sei?

We must first understand that both our pain and our suffering are truly our path, our teacher. While this understanding doesn't necessarily entail liking our pain or our suffering, it does liberate us from regarding them as enemies we have to conquer. Once we have this understanding, which is a fundamental change in how we relate to life, we can begin to deal with the layers of pain and suffering that make up so much of our existence.

The second phase—the phase of Being Awareness—intensifies as we become less involved with "me" and more concerned with cultivating a larger sense of what life is.

where the dead walked and the living were made of cardboard.

All things are a-flowing,' sage Heraclitus says, but a tawdry cheapness shall outlast all days.

Yea, and the little earth crumbles beneath our feet and we endure.

And the days are not full enough And the nights are not full enough And life slips by like a field mouse Not shaking the grass