Quotes About Existence

Bilincin olmad??? yerde, pratik anlamda bir yaÅŸam yoktur, çünkü dünya ancak bir psiÅŸe taraf?ndan bilinçli olarak düÅŸünüldüÄŸü ve bilinçli olarak ifade edildiÄŸi sürece varolabilir. Bilinç, varolman?n önkoÅŸuludur.

Man, I, in an invisible act of creation put the stamp of perfection on the world by giving it objective existence.

Flight from life does not free us from the law of age and death.

Es necesario acostumbrarse a la idea de que 'tiempo' es un concepto relativo, y que propiamente tiene que ser completado por el concepto de una pleromática existencia 'simultánea' o 'bárdica' de todos los acontecimientos históricos. Lo que existe en el pléroma como 'acontecimiento' eterno, aparece en el tiempo como secuencia aperiódica, es decir, se repite varias veces de modo irregular.»

It seems as if it were only through an experience of symbolic reality that man, vainly seeking his own "existence" and making a philosophy out of it, can find his way back to a world in which he is no longer a stranger.

When you say that the place of the soul is not, then it is not. But if you say that it is, then it is.

From then on, my life belonged to the generality.

Nada os salva de lo desordenado y lo carente de sentido, pues ésta es la otra mitad del mundo.»

Everything we do not differentiate falls into the Pleroma and is cancelled out along with its opposite. Therefore if we do not discern God, then the effective fullness is cancelled out for us.

From time immemorial, men have had ideas about a Supreme Being (one or several) and about the Land of the Hereafter. Only modern man thinks he can do without them.

Thoughts are natural events that you do not possess, and whose meaning you only imperfectly recognize.

Here each of us must ask: Have I any religious experience and immediate relation to God, and hence that certainty which will keep me, as an individual, from dissolving int he crowd?

Równie dobrze mo?na ja?n okreÅ›li? jako ,,Boga w nas

Woe unto you, for you have substituted the oneness of god for the diversity which cannot be resolved into the one.

This is precisely the risk modern man runs: he may wake up one day to find that he has missed half his life.

it would be a serious misunderstanding to confuse the existence of problems with neurosis. There is a marked difference between the two in that the neurotic is ill because he is unconscious of his problems. . .

The meaning of my existence is that life has addressed a question to me. Or, conversely, I myself am a question...

the shadow is merely somewhat inferior, primitive, unadapted, and awkward; not wholly bad. It even contains . . .qualities which would in a way vitalize and embellish human existence, but convention forbids!

La vida no vivida es una enfermedad de la que se puede morir

What we are to our inward vision, and what man appears to be sub specie aeternitatis, can only be expressed by way of myth.

Life has addressed a question to me... or conversely, I myself am a question.

The goal of contemplating the processes depicted in the mandala is that the yogi shall become inwardly aware of the deity. Through contemplation, he recognizes himself as God again, and thus returns from the illusion of individual existence into the universal totality of the divine state.

These moral evaluations are optical illusions, however: the life force is beyond moral judgment.

In our Western civilization the Cosmic Man has been identified to a great extent with Christ, and in the East with Krishna or with Buddha. In the Old Testament this same symbolic figure turns up as the "Son of Man" and in later Jewish mysticism is called Adam Kadmon. Certain religious movements of late antiquity simply called him Anthropos (the Greek word for man). Like all symbols this image points to an unknowable secret—to the ultimate unknown meaning of human existence.