Quotes About Existence

From the geiko's point of view, she needs a partner who is as interesting as the men she meets every night of the week. Most have no desire to leave their aerie of glamour and openness for the constriction of a middle-class existence.

All I ever really want to know is how other people are making it through life—where do they put their body, hour by hour, and how do they cope inside of it.

It would be frightening to think that in all the cosmos, which is so harmonious, so complete and equal to itself, that only human life is happening randomly, that only one's destiny lacks meaning.

Lumina aceasta ascunde altceva. ViaÅ£a întreag? ascunde altceva. AÅŸa cum sunt eu, aÅŸa cum e BiriÅŸ, ascundem, fiecare din noi, altceva. Se afl? ascuns undeva în noi, în adâncul fiinÅ£ei noastre. Altceva.

The great cosmic illusion is a hierophany.... One is devoured by Time, not because one lives in Time, but because one believes in its reality, and therefore forgets or despises eternity.

The joy of life is not a profane type of enjoyment: it reveals the bliss of existing, of sharing in the spontaneity of life and the majesty of the world.

The Experience of Sacred Space makes possible the founding of the world: where the sacred Manifests itself in space, the real unveils itself, the world comes into existence.

E adev?rat. Acesta e p?catul nostru cel mai mare, c? nu putem tr?i în prezent. Numai sfinÅ£ii tr?iesc necontenit în prezent...

Cea dintâi È™i singura esenÈ›ial? datorie a omului este caritatea, adic? o neobosit? justificare a bucuriei existenÈ›ei. A face din viaÈ›a È™i cunoaÈ™terea ta o permanent? bucurie – în pofida tuturor mizeriilor, È™i întunecimilor, È™i p?catelor, È™i neputinÈ›elor, È™i dezn?dejdilor – iat? o datorie cu adev?rat viril?, o datorie a omului È™i a datoriei din tine.

It must be added at once that such a profane existence is never found in the pure state. To whatever degree he may have desacralized the world, the man who has made his choice in favor of a profane life never succeeds in completely doing away with religious behavior.

The Arabian scholar and mystic, Ibn Sina (980 - 1037), declared that 'romantic love (al'-ishaq) is not peculiar to the human species but permeates all things, heavenly, elemental, vegetable and mineral, and its sense is neither perceived nor known; it is rendered even more obscure by the explanations made to account for it.

Consciousness of a real and meaningful world is intimately connected with the discovery of the sacred.

Symbolic thinking is not the exclusive privilege of the child, of the poet or of the unbalanced mind: it is consubstantial with human existence, it comes before language and discursive reason. The symbol reveals certain aspects of reality – the deepest aspects – which defy any other means of knowledge. Images, symbols and myths are not irresponsible creations of the psyche; they respond to a need and fulfil a function, that of bringing to light the hidden modalities of being.

The more a consciousness is awakened, the more it transcends its own historicity...

life cannot be repaired, it can only be recreated through symbolic repetition of the cosmogony

One is devoured by Time, not because one lives in Time, but because one believes in its reality and therefore forgets or despises eternity.

Es wäre entsetzlich, glauben zu müssen, daß in diesem ganzen so harmonishen, vollkommenen und sich selbst immer gleichbleibenden Kosmos nur die menschliche Existenz ein Speil des Zufalls und nur das Schicksal des Menschen völlig sinnlos sei.

Mircea Eliade

To be human is to seek for meaning…

It is beyond doubt that this gray reality, this everyday life of ours, is a camouflage for something else.

El hombre religioso siente la necesidad de sumergirse periódicamente en ese tiempo sagrado e indestructible. Para él, es el tiempo sagrado lo que hace posible el otro tiempo ordinario, la duración profana en la cual se desarrolla toda existencia humana.

Nu poÅ£i r?mâne niciodat? cu o singur? prezen??, nu te poÅ£i d?rui niciodat? unui singur lucru. Firea asta omeneasc? este atât de fundamental tragic? încât te cheam? necontenit în cel puÅ£in dou? direcÅ£ii, paralele dac? nu opuse.

The 'terror of history,' for me, is the feeling experienced by a man who is no longer religious, who therefore has no hope of finding any ultimate meaning in the drama of history, and who must undergo the crimes of history without grasping the meaning of them.

Así como la -naturaleza- es el producto de una secularización progresiva del cosmos obra de Dios, el hombre profano es el resultado de una desacralización de la existencia humana.