Quotes About Existence

You have to live to really know things, my love

Bliss defies description, obviously, since it annihilates you, since you're not there to experience it. You get the lead-up and the come-down, never the zenith.

everything you experience is what constitutes you as a human being, but the experience passes away and the person's left. The person is the residue.

If you move as a being in every experience of your self, your being replaces your self.

There is an eighth color that we don't have the sense apparatus to see or experience.

Beyond all experience is the one who is experiencing. Beyond all change is the One who never changes.

She had always known that all lives are in common, rejoicing in her kinship to the fish in the tanks of her laboratories, seeking the experience of existences outside the human boundary.

Pure suffering has a consciousness, a tongue, a heart all its own and even the memory of it is but a pale unreality when compared with the actual experience.

Nothing ever becomes real 'til it is experienced.

God himself culminates in the present moment, and will never be more divine in the lapse of all the ages.

I, at the age of 17 or 18 as a medical student, suddenly came up against a problem: 'What am I? What is the meaning of my existence as I experience it?'

In every moments of life, we're all having up and down.If there are no up or down, it means we didn't have any life.

This search for perfection - which is a search for divinity - is nothing more than the failure to accept our existence the way it is.

Is there a place here for the spirit ? Is there time on this brief platform for anything other than mind 's failure to explain itself?

The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.

The Deist needs none of those tricks and shows called miracles to confirm his faith, for what can be a greater miracle than the creation itself, and his own existence?

I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself the answer. Before your face questions die away. What other answer would suffice?

Faith is not knowledge of what the mystery of the universe is, but the conviction that there is a mystery, and that it is greater than us.

Faith, Sir, we are here today and gone tomorrow.

When a belief becomes dominant in American psychological circles one can be sure of one thing: that belief refers to something that no longer exists.

Faith is not the supposition that something might be true, but the assurance that someone is there.

The greatest of all miracles is to be alive.

Humanism is the creed of those who believe that in the circle of enwrapping mystery, men's fates are in their own hands - a faith that for modern man is becoming the only possible faith.

A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol.