Quotes About Existence

The deadened seek out the living to exterminate feeling, either by making their targets join them in numbness or by intimidating or assaulting them into silence. In the landscape of silence, the three realms might be silence imposed from within; silence imposed from without; and silence that exists around what

Violence is one way to silence people, to deny their voice and their credibility, to assert your right to control over their right to exist.

No perderte nunca es no vivir

I have a friend whose family tree has been traced back a thousand years, but no women exist on it. She just discovered that she herself did not exist, but her brothers did.

Sometimes I wonder if any of us are cut out for the lives we lead.

Uncountable the number off breaths I've taken for granted in my life.

Uncountable the number of breaths I've taken for granted in my life.

Art is not a plaything, but a necessity, and its essence, form, is not a decorative adjustment, but a cup into which life can be poured and lifted to the lips and be tasted. If one's own existence has no form, if its events do not come handily to mind and disclose their significance, we feel about ourselves as if we were reading a bad book.

but it is not what one does so much as the way that while one does it time runs past forever.

There is no seer or anything seen / no speaker or anything spoken / the appearance of buddhas and also their teachings / are merely what we imagine 44. Those who view such things as real / they don't see the Buddha / nor do those who imagine nothing / only those who transform their existence.

When you realize that whether something exists or not is nothing but the perception of your own mind, its external existence is seen as nonexistent and non-arising. Mahamati, there is no contradiction in my earlier and later statements.

What is real i the absence of the fiction of self-existence.

the use of prajna in the title tells us this is a text that goes beyond the analysis of reality into discrete, knowable entities, such as those used by the Sarvastivadins. Thus, Zen masters ask their students to show them their original face, their face before they were born.

To lose such an important listener in life is like losing my shadow. With no shadow, does a person truly exist under the sun? With no listener, does a person really have a voice? Silence means so many things to human beings. Some of them are unbearable.

There is no human alive today who was not created and held inside the living altar of a woman.

Für mich ist klar: Alle bekannten, diesseitigen Götter sind menschengemacht. Für das Jenseitige haben wir weder Namen noch die Kraft der Vorstellung. Ich bleibe also Possibilist, schließe das Göttliche in meinem Weltbild weder aus noch ein. Die alten Götter aber brauche ich nicht; auch fehlen sie mir nicht.

The higher I climb, the deeper I understand my fears; the bigger the mountain, the clearer the view I have of my own existence.

Und so wie meine bloße Existenz mich einst weitergetragen und mir die Kraft gegeben hatte, extreme Bergtouren zu wagen, begann ich jetzt wieder zu träumen von einem Gesamtkunstwerk. Zuletzt wieder im Alleingang. Als wäre ich dazu bestimmt vorauszugehen, den Weg festzulegen, die Welt neu zu erfinden. So habe ich einst die Ziele in der Wildnis vorgegeben. Jetzt wurde eine kulturelle Aufgabe daraus.

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Unser Wissen vom Leben beschränkt sich auf den Tod.

Those men who live with the greatest intensity are often the ones who seem to take least interest in life.

Tears flow and smiles fade to the same rhythm of life, to disappear together in the bottomless abyss.

Deprived of the infinite, man has become what he always was: a supernumerary. He hardly counts; he forms part of the troupe called Humanity; if he misses a cue, he is hissed; and if he drops through the trapdoor another puppet is in readiness to take his place.

Te montrer à l'univers, le temps d'un éclair, puis m'enfermer avec toi, seul, et te regarder pendant l'éternité.