Quotes About Existence

Men do not die on mornings like this: whatever happens then happens in their name, like the lives of obscure saints, who exist only in folk memory.

Faith, then, for Paul is first of all cruciform participation with Christ that liberates participants from the hostile powers that rule human existence and brings them into the powerful sphere of Christ's benevolent lordship and community.

Philosophy is an operation that of itself produces nothing; it operates on the basis of truths subtracted from the event.

Earth is heaven, here and now, if you can't accept that reality." "How do I do that?" "Know who you are.

The meaning of life is contained in every single expression of life. It is present in the infinity of forms and phenomena that exist in all of creation.

according to Sri Ramana, something can be called real only if it satisfies three essential criteria: it must be eternal, unchanging and self-shining.

I dream therefore I am." - Marge to her young son Mikee

We who choose to surround ourselves with lives even more temporary than our own live within a fragile circle, easily and often breached. Unable to accept its awful gaps, we still would live no other way. —Irving Townshend, Separate Lives

Sometimes I wonder if we live life by reliving life, rather than by living life.

Each day is a lifetime.

The past is gone, the future unknown, so set all your clocks n watches to - Right Now Time - and live your life in the Right Now.

No, she's not," she said, shaking her head, looking right through me. "She's the daughter of someone who no longer exists." 67 Iwalked outside, the interior of the Jordan home feeling toxic and ugly.

Gamergate was an important moment in proving the existence of the Cathedral, the idea that what is being presented as fact is actually a carefully coordinated movement by elites to establish and impose their view of what reality is and how it should be.

But Life, being Life, can never die at all. —FREDERICK TENNYSON

Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and silence. —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying. —ARTHUR C. CLARKE

As many old teachings suggest, bringing forth that which is in our nature will save us, while failing to bring forth our genuine nature will doom us. The real risk in this life has always been that of becoming oneself amidst the uncertainties of existence. As an Irish poet once said, 'a false sense of security is the only kind there is.

The issue is not simply one of needing to save the world, but also of needing to solve the problem of the loss of soul throughout the modern world. Part of what has been lost in the reckless rushing of modernity is the sense that each life has an authentic interior that shelters important emotions as well as inherent purpose, and that the dignity of existence includes a necessary instinct to unfold the unique story woven inside each living soul.

We are wrapped around a mystery to which we were drawn before we were born.

Time is a dream - or a nightmare - from which there is never any waking. We who travel in Time are dreamers who occasionally share a common experience.

What is required of philosophical research is that it be a critique of the present. In disclosing the past in an original manner, the past is no longer seen to be merely a present that preceded our own present. Rather, it is possible to emancipate the past so that we can find in it the authentic roots of our existence and bring it into our own present as a vital force. Historical consciousness liberates the past for the future, and it is then that the past gains force and becomes productive.

God is not He who is, but That which is.

We know life is transitory. We are more … detached because without human bodies we are unencumbered by the immediacy of human emotion.

There are too many people trying to escape from reality because they do not see their identity as having purpose or meaning.