Quotes About Existence

Call it the feeling of love that connects us. Call it the creative force that drives us to transform. Call it our energy. Call it our capacity to give. Call it grace, or even divinity, something that allows for those things to exist within us as individuals and between us each time we connect.

The reward is entrance to the "world of the Spirit," which is to say, entrance to this world, a place at this table, in this human life. I am not much concerned about the existence of a hereafter, a "next" life—this life is what I have, this is where I live, and I believe that my spiritual growth depends upon the work I do here and now. That work amounts to seeing this world clearly, moving through it gently, and learning to love it well.

They are solid, real. I am an object, useful but hollow. The absence of thought fills me up.

There is something everywhere, and everything nowhere.

Already, with the city behind them, New York didn't feel quite real. As if reality only existed where she existed.

We are all connected, safe inside eternity.

For them, health, or well-being, is more than getting by, existing, or making do. Knowing thyself means puzzling out how identity and fulfillment, meaning and destiny, are inextricably linked.

At least, when it comes, the black night of death will not frighten a creature still blind from being born. That is some comfort, is it not?

This is the whole purpose of museums, of course. One does not go merely to collect facts and souvenirs and picture postcards, but to enlarge one's notion of all that has been, and all that is, and all that might be. In this way we begin to understand what part each of us was born to play in the marvelous tale of existence.

If you don't acknowledge the bad side of things, bad things don't even exist. Only divinity exists.

Humanity knows nothing at all. There is no intrinsic value in anything, and every action is a futile, meaningless effort.

Before researchers become researchers they should become philosophers. They should consider what the human goal is, what it is that humanity should create. Doctors should first determine at the fundamental level what it is that human beings depend on for life.

Originally human beings had no purpose. Now, dreaming up some purpose or other, they struggle away trying to find the meaning of life. It is a one-man wrestling match. There is no purpose one has to think about, or go out in search of. You would do well to ask the children whether or not a life without purpose is meaningless.

Emptiness is not a mere emptiness, but rather fullness in which the distinctiveness of everything is throughly realized.

When life is lived as a living-and-dying in the primordial, nonsubstantial nothingness, one realizes that life is bottomlessly life and death is bottomlessly death. Life does not change into death, and death does not take away life.

To realize life as absolute is to be existentially amancipated from life itself in that very realization, which understands that life is not life. The same applies to death.

The memory of life arrived on this earth carried by the soul of water. From this memory, life awoke, the human being emerged...

People live their lives bound by what they accept as correct and true. That's how they define Reality. But what does it mean to be "correct" or "true"? Merely vague concepts… Their Reality may all be a mirage. Can we consider them to simply be living in their own world, shaped by their beliefs?

Bedenkt: Den eignen Tod, den stirbt man nur; doch mit dem Tod der andern muss man leben.

Reality is the name we give to our disappointments.

The Ordinary Life: the misery seems planned, the happiness accidental.

While there's life, there's fear.

Consciousness is our only reprieve from Time.

in the city, nudity means something; in the wild, it just exists