Quotes About Existence

Human's can't live in the present as animals do; they just live in the present. But human's are always thinking about the future or the past.

V? tr? có m?t ý ngh?a, và chính con ng??i, khi hi?u nó, ?ã trao cho nó cái ý ngh?a ?ó.

The past does not exist -- except in the brain.

Do not wish your life away, " Grandfather would tell her. "None of us know the number of days we are allotted. It would be foolish to discard any of them.

We all must live our lives always feeling, always thinking the moment has arrived.

Ontology is that branch of philosophy that deals with the nature of reality and different ways of being.

Being As it pertains to transformation, the realm of possibility in which something exists, rather than an emotional or behavioral state. The way you are being at any given time determines what's possible.

everything/ that ever was still is, somewhere

time never stops, but does it end? and how many lives before take-off, before we find ourselves beyond ourselves, all glam-glow, all twinkle and gold?

Like a god, / I believe in nothing.

We saw to the edge of all there is - So brutal and alive it seemed to comprehend us back.

time never stops, but does it end? and how many live/before take-off, before we find ourselves/beyond ourselves, all glam-glow, all twinkle and gold?

We move in and out of rooms, leaving Our dust, our voices pooled on sills. We hurry from door to door in a downpour Of days. Old trees inch up, their trunks thick With new rings. All that we see grows Into the ground. And all we live blind to Leans its deathless heft to our ears and sings.

The point is, you won't necessarily know Whether you're living a science fiction reality.

And then I think, maybe that's what we are. An accidental spectacle.

We're all just people, some of us accidentally connected by genetics, a random selection of cells. Nothing more.

From the Dzogchen point of view, that does not mean that one's relative concept of ego is something to get rid of. The practitioner needs to understand it for what it is. The ego exists only on the relative level and does not have real inherent existence. After becoming enlightened, the aspect of the relative existence of ego is still there, not changed.

In the meantime, there was nothing to do but exist and persist.

In seeming contradiction of physical laws, time is heavy only when it is empty.

We are in a world that has forgotten how interconnected we are with each other; how reliant we are on her mother, Gaia, for everything we need to exist, and that we are, in fact, made of the same materials as the stars. We can become as the Gods, but only if we remember that we are already divine beings.

The Purpose of Living is to discover the purpose of living

what is the nature of reality?

The only way to see true reality is in solitude. One of the tragedies of human existence is that reality cannot be shared. What's real to you may not be to someone else.

A deterrent must be known to exist, and to work.