Quotes About Existence

The universe doesn't allow perfection.

My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.

No matter your background, race, or circumstances, the Real You is perfect, and you must come to realize that, learn to love yourself, and understand that you do not need anything beyond yourself to be content. As you will see, you are All-That-Is. Nothing actually exists beyond yourself.

Thought, it turns out, is everywhere at once. It's part of the seamless whole of reality and is not confined in space or by space. In addition—and get ready for this—thought may not be constrained by time

University of Virginia—have collected that demonstrate that consciousness can exist without a brain being involved.

Así es que después de abandonar la razón y la lógica, después de experimentar el aburrimiento real y el temor aterrador, develamos el último misterio de los misterios: la nada. Al final, todo es nada y la nada es todo. Con Heidegger, alcanzamos el nihilismo metafísico.

If this earth was good enough for the man Jesus Christ, if such a man as Jesus lived, then, and only then, life has a meaning for us.

Death reminds us that we are nothing.

Nature is what she is - amoral and persistent.

The true beauty of nature is her amplitude she exists neither for nor because of us, and possesses a staying power that all our nuclear arsenals cannot threaten (much as we can easily destroy our puny selves).

We are here because one odd group of fishes had a peculiar fin anatomy that could transform into legs for terrestrial creatures; because the earth never froze entirely during an ice age; because a small and tenuous species, arising in Africa a quarter of a million years ago, has managed, so far, to survive by hook and by crook. We may yearn for a 'higher answer'– but none exists

Homo sapiens [are] a tiny twig on an improbable branch of a contingent limb on a fortunate tree.

Geology gave us the immensity of time and taught us how little of it our own species has occupied.

Not success. Not growth. Not happiness. The cradle of your love of life … is death.

Dying is active. Dying is not what happens to you. Dying is what you do. Dying

The realization and the humbling power of knowing that life is not a human thing could go a long way toward making us human.

We live, if we still do live, in a Sea of Chaos, out of which any fucking monster can evolve.

la eternidad es demasiado larga como para desperdiciar este breve tiempo aquí en la Tierra.

Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.

It is cheering to find a newspaper of the great influence and circulation of the Journal that tells the facts as they exist, and ignores the suggestions of various kinds that emanate from sources that cannot be described as patriotic or loyal to the flag.

dreams are real while they last. Can we say more of life?

We wanted something in which to believe, as many people on Earth once believed in demons, or in sunken lost continents, in a face on Mars, crop circles, visitations from being on other planets, or God, Buddha, Christ, Allah, and so on. The fact that all of the above were total nonsense didn't change the desire to believe that there was Something Else out there, something that could make sense of chaotic lives and events.

Until we find out who was born this time around, it seems irrelevant to seek earlier identities. I have heard many people speak of who they believe they were in previous incarnations, but they seem to have very little idea of who they are in this one. . . . Let's take one life at a time. Perhaps the best way to do that is to live as though there were no afterlife or reincarnation. To live as though this moment was all that was allotted. (132)

God is not someone or something separate but is the suchness in each moment, the underlying reality.