Quotes About Existence

We can't change our fate, because we can't change something which doesn't exist.

We can't live life perfectly fully, because we sleep eight hours a day! We can live life only partly fully!

We need another universe, a smaller one; with more Earth's and less Saturn's; more alive and less dead!

Weeds are luckier than flowers because they are not killed for their beauties!

Your only real problem is mortality! No religion can solve this problem, but science can do!

The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.

We are celebrating the feast of the Eternal Birth which God the Father has borne and never ceases to bear in all eternity... But if it takes not place in me, what avails it? Everything lies in this, that it should take place in me.

God expects but one thing of you, and that is that you should come out of yourself in so far as you are a created being made and let God be God in you.

If the soul knows God in creatures, night falls. If it sees how they have their being in God, morning breaks. But if it sees the Being that is in God himself alone, it is high noon! See! This is what one ought to desire with mad fervor—that all his life should become Being.

If anyone went on for a thousand years asking of life: 'Why are you living?' life, if it could answer, would only say, 'I live so that I may live.' That is because life lives out of its own ground and springs from its own source, and so it lives without asking why it is itself living.

Every creature is a word of God.

As long as I am this or that, I am not all things.

In this breaking-through, I receive that God and I are one. Then I am what I was, and then I neither diminish nor increase, for I am then an immovable cause that moves all things.

Every creature is a word of God and is a book about God.

God is greater than God.

There exists only the present instant... a Now which always and without end is itself new. There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow, but only Now, as it was a thousand years ago and as it will be a thousand years hence.

Where there is Isness, there God is. Creation is the giving of isness from God. And that is why God becomes where any creature expresses God.

Truth is something so noble that if God could turn aside from it, I could keep the truth and let God go.

Alle Dinge müssen, der Mensch allein ist das Wesen, welches will.

Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time.

Yet the now of time is infinitesimally small. If you remove the now of time, you are in all places and possess all time.

A day, whether six or seven years ago or whether six thousand years ago, is just as near to the present as yesterday. Why? Because all time is contained in now.

This birth which takes place unceasingly in eternity is the very same birth which has taken place within human nature.

We should not content ourselves with a God of thoughts for, when the thoughts come to an end, so too shall God. Rather, we should have a living God who is beyond the thoughts of all people and all creatures. That kind of God will not leave us, unless we ourselves choose to turn away from him.