Quotes About Existence

Breathing in, I see all my ancestors in me: my mineral ancestors, plant ancestors, mammal ancestors, and human ancestors. My ancestors are always present, alive in every cell of my body, and I play a part in their immortality.

Impermanence and selflessness are not negative aspect of life, but the very foundation on which life is built. Impermanence is the constant transformation of things. Without impermanence, there can be no life. Selflessness is the interdependent nature of all things. Without interdependence, nothing could exist.

The electron is first of all your concept of the electron.

The present moment is the only moment available to us and it is the door to all other moments.

The miracle is walking on the earth, not walking on water or fire. The real miracle is walking on this earth.

We all exist as part of a wonderful stream of life.

Just because we do not perceive something, it is not correct to say it does not exist.

I bowed my heard, and I knew that we have a lot to learn from the leaf because it was not afraid - it knew that nothing can be born and nothing can die.

If we lose the present moment, we lose life.

I am a continuation like the rain is the continuation of the cloud.

The leaf has the appearance of being born and dying, but it is not caught in either. The leaf falls to the earth without any idea of dying, and is born again by decomposing at the foot of the tree and nourishing the tree. The cloud has the appearance of dying in becoming rain, but it feels no sorrow or pain. [...] When we have awakened understanding, birth is a continuation and death is a continuation[.]

What is happening in the present moment is life.

Imagine one atom of that speck of dust, with electrons traveling around its nucleus at 180,000 miles per second. It is very exciting. To return to a speck of dust with be quite an exciting adventure!

When conditions are sufficient, we manifest. When conditions are no longer sufficient, we no longer manifest. It does not mean that we do not exist. Like radio waves without a radio, we do not manifest.

A wave has a right to live her life as a wave, but she must also learn to live her life as water because she is not only a wave. She is also water. And water lives without the fear carried by the wave.

We cannot be by ourselves alone. We can only inter-be with everything else in the cosmos.

See that everything is impermanent and without eternal identity. See that although things are impermanent and without lasting identity, they are nonetheless wondrous.

Reality is reality. It transcends every concept. There is no concept which can adequately describe it, not even the concept of interdependence.

We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives.

The only moment to be alive is in the present moment.

When you wake up and you see that the Earth is not just the environment, the Earth is us, you touch the nature of interbeing.

Emptiness means to be full of everything but empty of a separate existence.

We tend to postpone being alive to the future, the distant future, we don't know when. It's as if now is not the moment to be alive. We may never be alive at all in our entire life.

Lev dig in i tanken att du finns i universum och att universum finns i dig. Om universum finns, finns du. Om du finns, finns universum. Det finns ingen födelse. Det finns ingen död.