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Quotes About Existence

Man (and woman) has an infinite capacity for self-development. Equally, he has an infinite capacity for self-destruction. A human being may be clinically alive and yet, despite all appearances, spiritually dead.
~ Idries Shah
Q: What is a fundamental mistake of man's? A: To think that he is alive, when he has merely fallen asleep in life's waiting-room.
~ Idries Shah
They say that death kills you, But death doesn't kill you. Boredom and indifference kill you.
~ Iggy Pop
Porque nos suceden las cosas? ¿De veras un encuentro casual es lo menos casual del mundo, como dice Cortázar?
~ Unknown
Solo lo que da sentido a nuestra muerte, le da sentido a nuestra vida
~ Unknown
Vengo, mas no sé de dónde. Soy, mas no sé quién. Moriré, mas no sé cuándo. Camino, mas no sé hacia donde. Me sorprende que esté contento y ría.
~ Unknown
The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.
~ Igor Stravinsky
Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
~ Igor Stravinsky
One lives by memory . . . and not by truth.
~ Igor Stravinsky
born born everything is always born thinking about it try not to
~ Ikkyu
don't worry please please how many times do I have to say it there's no way not to be who you are and where.
~ Ikkyu
even before trees rocks I was nothing when I'm dead nowhere I'll be nothing
~ Ikkyu
here I am simply trying to get into your head you think you were born you die what a pity
~ Ikkyu
even before trees rocks I was nothing when I'm dead nowhere I'll be nothing all the bad things I do will go up in smoke and so will I if there's nowhere to rest at the end how can I get lost on the way?
~ Ikkyu
I existed before I received this body. I am the external and fundamental life energy of the universe.
~ Ilchi Lee
The key to meditation is to exist one hundred percent in the here and now.
~ Ilchi Lee
Everything in existence undergoes constant change. The things that surround us, even our selves are temporary manifestations of Ki energy.
~ Ilchi Lee
The energy of life entering and leaving your body flows evenly throughout the universe. With that current, the mind of the cosmos communicates with all things.
~ Ilchi Lee
We have an innate sensibility for being content,feeling joyful, and living in happiness without conditions. Happiness is a natural condition of existence.
~ Ilchi Lee
Religion is not God himself or herself. It is a system of teaching about God, an explanation of God's way to human minds. But God doesn't need explanations to exist.
~ Ilchi Lee
Drinking the energy of the universe Breathing along with the Cosmos With each breath I am reborn Into a brand new existence.
~ Ilchi Lee
Life without love Is as night without day
~ Ilchi Lee
Inside of Ki energy, we feel that we are not beings fettered by time and space but that we are infinite and eternal.
~ Ilchi Lee
Through reflection, awakening, and choice we are able to exist as our true selves. However, this is not the end. In order for us to realize and put into practice the life purpose we have chosen, endless choices await us.
~ Ilchi Lee