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Quotes About Existence

Once you understand that the false needs time and what needs time is false, you are nearer the Reality, which is timeless, ever in the NOW.
~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Poverty is not for the sake of hardship. No, it is there because nothing exists but Allah. Poverty unlocks the door - what a blessed key!
~ Rumi
Nothing can make you happier than you are. All search for happiness is misery and leads to more misery. The only happiness worth the name is the natural happiness of conscious being.
~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
A free man thinks of nothing less than of death; and his wisdom is a meditation not on death but on life.
~ Baruch Spinoza
Actually, watching television and surfing the Internet are really excellent practice for being dead.
~ Chuck Palahniuk, Damned
Thus God alone is the primary Unity, or original simple substance, from which all monads, created and derived, are produced.
~ Gottfried Leibniz
Life doesn't make any sense, and we all pretend it does. Comedy's job is to point out that it doesn't make sense, and that it doesn't make much difference anyway.
~ Eric Idle
After all Death is a Symbol that there was Life.
~ Mario Benedetti
Are we fallen angels who didn't want to believe that nothing is nothing and so were born to lose our loved ones and dear friends one by one and finally our own life, to see it proved?
~ Jack Kerouac
Ego is a social institution with no physical reality. The ego is simply your symbol of yourself.
~ Shunryu Suzuki
Wisdom says we are nothing. Love says we are everything. Between these two our life flows.
~ Jack Kornfield
He only is a true atheist to whom the predicates of the Divine Being - for example, love, wisdom and justice - are nothing.
~ Ludwig Feuerbach
Listening causes me to find the existence of truth behind the veil.
~ Loreena McKennitt
The old grooves must be erased in your brain, without forming new ones. You must realize yourself as the immovable, behind and beyond the movable, the silent witness of all that happens.
~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
God in His wisdom made the fly And then forgot to tell us why.
~ Ogden Nash
Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I've said before, bugs in amber.
~ Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Let the mind beware, that though the flesh be bugged, the circumstances of existence are pretty glorious.
~ Jack Kerouac
The unnatural, that too is natural.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
What hurts the soul? To live without tasting the water of its own essence.
~ Rumi
Anxiety may consist of the loss of psychological or spiritual meaning which is identified with one's existence as a self, i.e., the threat of meaninglessness.
~ Paul Tillich
Now there is one outstanding important fact regarding spaceship earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.
~ R. Buckminster Fuller
To cognize the Divine Essence - this is the highest purpose of soul, sent by the Creator to the Earth!
~ Pythagoras
Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don't say that you've wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky