Quotes About Existence

However, as distinct as they may appear from one another, Bohm suggested that they're linked in a deeper reality in ways that we simply cannot see from our place in creation.

In the teachings of Mahayana Buddhism, it's believed that reality can exist only where our mind creates a focus.

Manifestation begins with the willingness to make room in our beliefs for something that supposedly doesn't exist. We create that "something" through the force of consciousness and awareness.

We're "part of a universe that is a work in progress." In this unfinished creation, "we are tiny patches of the universe looking at itself—and building itself.

When we look at our lives from the viewpoint that everything is everywhere all the time, the implications are so vast that for many they're hard to grasp.

the power of imagination as the essence of our existence

The distinction between what is real and what is imaginary is not one that can be finely maintained … all existing things are … imaginary.

No one cares. If you don't exist, then it doesn't matter, right? Evan

I was free. Free also means nothing.

To recognize what is absurd and to accept it need not dim the eye for the tragic side of existence; quite on the contrary, in the end it may perhaps help in gaining a more tolerant view of the world.

Human life is a voyage on a sea of meaning, not a net of information.

The poet Kabir asks, "What is God?" Then he answers his own question: "God is the breath inside the breath.

I learned life were no dream I learned truth deceived Man is not God Life is a century Death an instant

There are realms of life where the concepts of sense and nonsense do not apply.

The body apologizes to the soul for its errors, and the soul asks forgiveness for squatting in the body without invitation.

Memory is a part of the present. It builds us up inside; it knits our bones to our muscles and keeps our hearts pumping. It is memory that reminds our bodies to work, and memory that reminds our spirits to work to: it keeps us who we are.~Candle

So when did these last two originate? They transcend "whenness," but if I must give a naive answer—when the Father did. When was that? There has not been a "when" when the Father has not been in existence. This, then, is true of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Put another question and I will answer it. Since when has the Son been begotten? Since as long as the Father has not been begotten.

If we're not supposed to dance, Why all this music?

I want to study The book of the world: Every vanishing page.

Nowhere does Niemeyer set out a specific aesthetic. In "The Autonomous Man" he notes that the imagination can be used for good or ill. In the broadest sense, he believed that the imagination could move either in the direction of autonomy, creating self-enclosed systems, or in the direction of participation, that is, a deepening of our sense of the mystery that surrounds our existence.

It is only too clear that man is not at home in this universe, and yet he is not good enough to deserve a better.

Happiness is the meaning and purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.

He is my fate. He's my soul mate. He pervades my whole existence. So, of course, I often ignore him.

Sometimes I really do wonder if everything is just random and pointless, whether there's any meaning to anything in this life.