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Quotes About Existence

How can people think that artists seek a name? There is no such thing as an artist - only the world, lit or unlit, as the world allows.
~ Annie Dillard
To live in mankind is far more than to live in a name.
~ Vachel Lindsay
That's why I named my album 'The Life,' because it's appreciating life and not taking it for granted and living it day by day.
~ Ginuwine
That all who have ever been born men from the beginning of creation, and are deceased, are either in heaven or in hell, follows from those things which have been said and shown in the preceding article, namely, that Heaven and Hell are from the human race.
~ Emanuel Swedenborg
Stories and narratives are one of the most powerful things in humanity. They're devices for dealing with the chaotic danger of existence.
~ Wes Craven
As human beings, we are all not conducting just one narrative but many narratives all at the same time.
~ David Hare
It is natural to die as to be born.
~ Francis Bacon
There is no 'natural' order, only the way things are.
~ Hanna Rosin
Thought is creating divisions out of itself and then saying that they are there naturally.
~ David Bohm
Nature abhors annihilation.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self.
~ Muhammad Iqbal
You have chosen to exist, and more than just exist-- you've been chosen to share in the Universal consciousness.
~ Chris Prentiss
The Universe is alive, conscious, and aware.
~ Chris Prentiss
The energy everything is made of is conscious. It's alive.
~ Chris Prentiss
Whether a man dispassionately sees to the core of life or passionately sees the surface, the core and the surface are essentially the same, words making them seem different only to express appearance. If name be needed, wonder names them both: from wonder into wonder existence opens.
~ Chris Prentiss
When we use our mind, not our brain, to think, to imagine, to plan, to wonder about existence, we are drawing upon the Taoversal consciousness that streams through us.
~ Chris Prentiss
The word universe suggests that the totality of created existence is a defined space . It's not . The ball we've been talking about exploded into already - existing space — Tao's space.
~ Chris Prentiss
Nothing exists without time, within which everything exists.
~ Chris Prentiss
Ether is the space within which everything exists, including the space inside a vacuum.
~ Chris Prentiss
The totally alive, totally conscious, and totally aware Universe takes care of itself completely. It is totally self- reliant and totally self- sufficient. It is perfect.
~ Chris Prentiss
You can take the entire world of physics with all of its macrocosm and microcosm, its quantum mechanics and nuclear physics and reduce it to one word: energy. It's all energy. Scientists say that if you can't measure it, weight it, or see it, it doesn't exist. Well, no one has ever seen energy. We can see its effects, but not it.
~ Chris Prentiss
Enlightenment is knowing Who You Are in relation to All - That - Is. There is nothing in the Taoverse more the Taoverse than you. You always were; you will always be.
~ Chris Prentiss
In order for there to be light, there must first exist non - light or total darkness. Nowhere in the Taoverse would there be light. No stars. Total darkness. Zero light. The blackest of the black. Therefore light exists in total darkness.
~ Chris Prentiss