Quotes About Existence

Who says I breathe music? Who says I even breathe?

Let no one imagine that in owning a recording he has the music. The very practice of music is a celebration that we own nothing.

Thus one should know oneself to be of the nature of Existence-Consciousness-Bliss[Sat-Chit-Ananda].

The witness of the three states of consciousness [waking, dream and deep sleep] and of the nature of Existence-Consciousness-Bliss is the Self

We need not seek a cause or a motive or a purpose for that which is, in its nature, eternally self-existent and free.

The Divine realm extends to the earthly; but the later, illusory in nature, does not contain the essence of Reality.

We often forget that WE ARE NATURE. Nature is not something separate from us. So when we say that we have lost our connection to nature, we've lost our connection to ourselves.

His essential nature is sat-chit-ananda: (Sat) Absolute Being - He encompasses everything because there is nothing outside of him; (Chit) Absolute Consciousness - He is the complete consciousness

We are part of this universe; we are in this universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts, is that the universe is in us.

When you have abandoned all past and future, it is as if you have come alive. You are here, mindful...the nature of all types of consciousness reveals itself.

Forgetfulness of your real nature is true death; remembrance of it is rebirth.

Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.

To understand water is to understand the cosmos, the marvels of nature, and life itself.

All beings are by nature are Buddhas, as ice by nature is water. Apart from water there is no ice; apart from beings, no Buddhas.

Every thing is of the nature of no thing.

Mankind was not meant to suffer -- bliss is our nature. The individual is cosmic. Let's rock.

The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans.

It has been said repeatedly that one can never, try as he will, get around to the front of the universe. Man is destined to see only its far side, to realize nature only in retreat.

I do NOT accept the ephemeral nature of this moment. I'm going to extend it FOREVER! Or at least I'm going to try.

Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.

Perhaps an individual must consider his own death to be the final phenomenon of nature.

There is life in a stone. Any stone that sits in a field or lies on a beach takes on the memory of that place. You can feel that stones have witnessed so many things.

In our own selves sometimes we don't feel right in this body. I think it's because our original nature is eternally free

Fish cannot drown in water. Birds cannot sink in air. This has God given to all creatures, to foster and seek their own nature. How then can I withstand mine?