Quotes About Existence

Love without freedom does not exist.

there is no stain, no purification, no divinity outside the Self; no practice, no ritual, and nothing separate from ourselves to attain. Consciousness is totality; totality is consciousness.

In effect, you're saying that if you knew how you oughtt to live, then the flaw is man could be controlled. If you knew how you ought to live, you wouldn't be forever screwing up the world. perhaps in fact the two things are actually one thing. Perhaps the flaw in man is exactly this: that he doesn't know how he ought to live.

Are you telling me my entire life has been a dream? Not your life, Greg, your past. Is there a distincition? Of course there is. In a very real sense, everyone's past is a dream; the past isn't a real thing you can reach back and touch; it's just something in your head. Your life, which is what's going on here and now at this table, is as real as anyone's...

All paths lie together in the hand of god like a web endlessly woven, and yours and mine are no greater or less than the beetle's or the squirrel's or the sparrow's. All are held together.

All the major world religions (always excluding animism, of course), are founded on these notions: that man and man alone was the desired object of creation, that man occupies a preeminent place in the order of creation, that man has a value in God's eyes that is transcendently greater than that of all other creatures, that this world of matter is illusory, transitory, and worthless.

it doesn't make any difference. Whether we're being lied to or not, we still have to get up and go to work and pay the bills and all the rest.

No, he wasn't waiting; he was merely there, had been there before I arrived and would be there when I'd left. I had the feeling I was of no more significance to him than a passing cloud is to a shepherd resting on a hillside.

This wasn't life, of course. This was life support. This was what the medical world had fashioned to take the place of Purgatory.

What is it like.... what is it like to be dead?' Evan looked at him with his dull, unblinking blue eyes, ' I don't know, what is it like...... to be alive?

The dead once lived but the living have not yet died...

I'm sure that love exists, even infinite, eternal love.

Faith is a dynamic and ever-changing process, not some fixed body of truth that exists outside our world and our understanding. God's truth may be fixed and unchanging, but our comprehension of that truth will always be partial and flawed at best.

I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.

In a world of lunacy, Violence, stupidity, greed…it is a good life.

Even when months and days are long, life is short.

7. Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.

Kurt Vonnegut

Life goes on. What nonsense, I though, of course it doesn't. It's death that goes on.

How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose we know not, though sometimes sense it. But we know from daily life that we exist for other people first of all for whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.

You and I, we are embers from the same fire, dust from the same star, echoes of the same love"

People take pictures of the Summer, just in case someone thought they had missed it, and to proved that it really existed.

Every morning that I wake up and I'm breathing, I can feel it and take a moment to say, you know, 'Thank God I'm alive for another day.'

"How wonderful life is now you're in the world."