Quotes About Existence

I rather think the world is like sand. The fundamental nature of sand is very difficult to grasp when you think of it in its stationary state. Sand not only flows, but this very flow is the sand.

No matter how many faces I have, there is no changing the fact that I am me.

Animal smell is beyond philosophy.

But darkness, too, really existed, as light's opposite pole.

See, we don't know the beginning and we don't know the end; all we can know about is the in-between stuff. And that, my friend, is what life is like.

just throw away all thoughts of imaginary things, and stand firm in that which you are.

Between the poles of the conscious and the unconscious, there has the mind made a swing: Thereon hang all beings and all worlds, and that swing never ceases its sway. (pg. 16)

I offer myself to an image: the great being beyond boundaries and beyond beyond

Pandit, you've got it wrong. There's no creator or creation there, no gross or fine, no wind or fire, no sun, moon, earth or water, no radiant form, no time there, no word, no flesh, no faith, no cause and effect, nor any thought of the Veda. No Hari or Brahma, no Shiva or Shakti, no pilgrimage and no rituals. No mother, father or guru there. Is it two or one? Kabir says, if you understand now, you're guru, I'm disciple.

The world is dying, but knows none how to Die: But, whosoever knows how to Die, dies not again.

are children of the Father by virtue of our existence; trapped in Time we may be, but our Father loves us and He will find us.

Any act without the fragrance of Being is lost.

What we most need is what we already are: our essential Self. There is no escape; there is only coming home [...] The submission of the lower self to the Higher Self, of the self to the Whole in each moment, becomes the central fact of existence. Submission is to live for one's Self - the eternal I - not for one's ego..." ? Kabir Edmund Helminski, Living Presence: A Sufi Way to Mindfulness & the Essential Self

What we most need is what we already are: our essential Self. There is no escape; there is only coming home [...] The submission of the lower self to the Higher Self, of the self to the Whole in each moment, becomes the central fact of existence. Submission is to live for one's Self - the eternal I - not for one's ego...

There's a transformative power that exists in the nature of Reality. There is something that can almost miraculously transform human beings. We need that. (p. 3)

All life is one and everything that lives is holy. Holiness is Reality. (p. 80)

If those sweet lips, that goblet of wine, Yes, everything, ends in non-existence, Then remember, for as long as you exist, That you are only what you will be one day: Nothing. It's impossible to be less than that.

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

I said to Life, 'I would hear Death speak.' And Life raised her voice a little higher and said, 'You hear him now.'

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are the eternity and you are the mirror.

The timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness and knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.

We were a silent, hidden thought in the folds of oblivion, and we have become a voice that causes the heavens to tremble.

Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.

Man is a creature whose substance is faith. What his faith is, he is.