Quotes About Existence

If there is something here that is not in the Vedas, that is your delusion. It does not exist.

Who is the seer? The Self of man, the Purusha. What is the scene? The whole of nature beginning with the mind, down to gross matter.

and has found that the world, and the gods, and heaven are ... within his own Self.

The whole universe is only the self with variations, one tune made bearable by variations. Sometimes there are discords, but they only make the subsequent harmony more perfect.

Animals cannot have any high thoughts; nor can the Angels or Devas attain to direct freedom without human birth.

You cannot die nor can I.

It is the touch of the senses that brings all this quality of existence: heat and cold, pleasure and pain.

Though this body has its beginning and end, the dweller in the body is infinite and without end" (note 7).

Existence can never be non-existence, neither can non-existence ever become existence. ... Know, therefore, that that which pervades all this universe is without beginning or end. It is unchangeable. There is nothing in the universe that can change [the Changeless]. Though this body has its beginning and end, the dweller in the body is infinite and without end

Then the gods become no gods; death becomes no death; life becomes no life.

Our knowledge is within the network of Mâyâ (unreality), and beyond that is freedom. Within the network there is slavery, it is all under law; beyond that there is no law. So far as the universe is concerned, existence is ruled by law, and beyond that is freedom.

I don't know how anyone can see the Hubble 'Deep Field' image and not feel like something else is going about its business out there.

One of the best things to do sometimes is simply to be.

Sometimes, what you're looking for is already there.

Sometimes I feel like a figment of my own imagination.

Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them.

Rebellion cannot exist without the feeling that somewhere, in some way, you are justified.

I think that ideas exist outside of ourselves. I think somewhere, we're all connected off in some very abstract land. But somewhere between there and here ideas exist.

Even the dark places are places. You're still somewhere.

Reality is not always dark or positive. It is somewhere in-between.

I did a church movie one time. I think it exists somewhere that I hope to God no one ever sees. I haven't even seen it. My mom's seen it. My mom was in it.

So if I design it and then go away, it's still living somewhere and it still exists by itself without me.

Once a film is made and it exists, someone somewhere is going to watch it and that is kind of the magic of it all.

The reality is that we know that this universe, that our galaxy, has billions of stars. We know that stars have planets. So the likelihood that there is life somewhere else to me is just absolutely there.