Quotes About Existence

Thinking prevents us from touching life deeply. I think, therefore I am really not there.

That is why I don't believe much in what Mr. Descartes said: I think, therefore I am. I think, therefore I'm lost in my thinking. I'm not there.

According to the Buddha, life is available only in the here and now, the present moment. He said, "The past is already gone, the future is not yet here. There's only one moment for you to live, and that is the present moment." If you miss the present moment, you miss your appointment with life.

I am life without boundaries. The decaying of this body does not mean the end of me. I am not limited to this body.

To be or not to be, that is not a question, because reality transcends both notions of birth and death, of being and non-being.

To be and not to be are just two ideas opposing each other. But they are not reality, and they do not describe reality.

Life is miraculous, even in its suffering. Without suffering, life would not be possible. There is nothing permanent, and there is no separate self. Neither is there impermanence or no-self. When we see life deeply, there is no death. Therefore, it isn't necessary to say "everlasting life.

The present moment contains the whole of life.

This is, because that is. This is not, because that is not. This is born, because that is born. This dies, because that dies.

At its most essential, the apple you hold is a manifestation of the wonderful presence of life. It is interconnected with all that is. It contains the whole universe; it is an ambassador of the cosmos coming to nourish our existence. It feeds our body, and if we eat it mindfully, it also feeds our soul and recharges our spirit.

Like the Buddha, we too have come from suchness, remain in suchness, and will return to suchness. We have come from nowhere and have nowhere to go.

The wave can live the life of a wave, but it can also do better. It can live every moment of its life deeply touching its nature of no-birth and no-death, that is, its nature as water.

In the dimension of space and time, We chew as rhythmically as we breathe. Maintaining the lives of all our ancestors, Opening an upward path for descendants.

This is, because that is. This is not, because that is not.

I wasn't lost, or frozen, or gone... I was alive; I was alive in my own perfect world.

sometimes you get to a point in your life where you don't know what you want to do tomorrow, you just know you want to be alive somewhere!

Ich spreche nicht gern vom Tod, ich bin für Leben.

There is no right life in the wrong one.

I believe in the compelling power of love. I do not understand it. I believe it to be the most fragrant blossom of all this thorny existence.

We are that drop in the ocean of the cosmos which contains within itself the entire cosmos. (p. 12)

Maybe God has a house. But not here.

Brooding on God, I may become a man.

Oh, to be something else, yet still to be!

Create a world in which these things do or do not exist, or in which they are extended in some way. Test reality against this fiction. The reader will recognize the world that you're talking about, even though it may be another one altogether