Quotes About Existence

The truth is, clocks don't tell time. Time is measured in meaning.

Later I read that there are things inside us too tiny to see. Not even a microscope can capture them. This got me thinking--if there are things inside us too tiny to see, might there be things outside us too big to believe?

The truth is, clocks don't tell time. Time is measured in meaning. It is meaning that drives most people forward into time, and it is meaning that reminds them of the past, so they know where they are in the universe.

The continuum in which we live is not the kind of place in which middles can be unambiguously excluded.

Perhaps rather than concerning ourselves with trying to form a relationship with God, we should instead become fully aware of the relationship that already exists.

The passage proves not only that "Jesus, the one they call messiah" probably existed, but that by the year 94 C.E., when the Antiquities was written, he was widely recognized as the founder of a new and enduring movement.

God is, in other words, wholly Other: the Mysterium Tremendum, to borrow Rudolph Otto's famous phrase.

For the Sufi, reality is neither emptiness nor illusion; reality is God.

The Rationalists argued that God's attributes could not possibly exist coeternally with God, but must be a part of creation.

Nothing can be substantially independent of God because there is nothing else but God." In other words, what we call the world and what we call God are not independent or discrete. Rather, the world is God's self-expression. It is God's essence realized and experienced.2

Even al-Hallaj admitted that his experience of unity with God came after a long journey of inward reflection. "Your Spirit mixed with my Spirit little by little," he wrote of God in his Diwan, "by turns, through reunions and abandons. And now I am Yourself. Your existence is my own, and it is also my will.

Pienso, luego existo. De acuerdo, pero no tenía un centavo. Todas las otras pérdidas tenían un sentido trágico, una cualidad, digamos así, simbólica: la lengua natal, la patria, los amigos. Pero ¿y el dinero? Sin dinero ¿Cómo iba a hacer, no ya para pensar sino, más directamente, para existir?

Nl homin certum est. (Ovid

In prncipi erat Verbum et Verbum erat apud Deum et Deus erat Verbum. Hoc erat in prncipi apud Deum: omnia per ipsum facta sunt et sine ips factum est nihil quod factum est. In ips vta erat et vta erat lx hominum, et lx in tenebrs lcet et tenebrae eam nn comprehendrunt.

Would that the dead were not dead! But there is grass that must be eaten, pellets that must be chewed, hraka that must be passed, holes that must be dug, sleep that must be slept.

What is, is what must be.

And, Freedom, was I free?

to be dead may be nothing, yet who relishes the business of dying?

He wore the black suit which he used for funerals, a form of social entertainment which greatly appealed to Mr. Judd since it combined dignity of emotion with solemn lessons on the dangers of existence in an under-policed country.

Each age has different tensions and terrors, but they open on the same abyss.

Overcome space, and all we have left is Here. Overcome time, and all we have left is Now.

This is a test to see if your mission in this life is complete, if you are alive, it isn't.

Here's the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't

You are life, inventing form. No more can you die on sword or years than you can die on doorways through which you walk, one room into another. Every room gives its word for you to speak, every passage its song for you to sing.