Quotes About Existence

the artificial things are as natural as the natural things.

Through no divine design or cosmic plan, we have inherited the mantle of life's caretaker on the earth, the only home we have ever known.

Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise and rudely great … He hangs between; in doubt to act or rest; In doubt to deem himself a god, or beast; In doubt his mind or body to prefer; Born but to die, and reasoning but to err.

To experience something, you must be alive, so we cannot personally experience death. Yet we know it is real because every one of the hundred billion people who lived before us is gone. That presents us with something of a paradox.

Reality exists independent of human minds, but our understanding of it depends upon the beliefs we hold at any given time.

Through no divine design or cosmic plan, we have inherited the mantle of life's caretaker on the earth, the only home we have ever known.

If there is nothing new under the sun, at least the sun itself is always new, always re-creating itself out of its own inexhaustible fire.

And it occurred to Elliott, young as he was, that this might actually be the core contradiction of being human: born with the souls of angels – but mortal angels, meat angels, born to die and rot away. And that was maybe even the fundamental problem every human had to solve: how to live in a world where we are born to die.

The body, you know, is ninety percent water, and there are those who will tell you that life is only a device which water employs to move itself about.

This definition, which sounds like the opposite of Brahman being the whole universe, is actually identical to brahman being the whole universe, because—in this way of looking at it—everything in the phenomenal universe is an illusion, including your separate self.

The most beautiful thing to experience is the mysterious. It is the true source of life, art and science.

We are not born into the world. We are born into something that we make into the world.

Pribram and Bohm Together Considered together, Bohm and Pribram's theories provide a profound new way of looking at the world: Our brains mathematically construct objective reality by interpreting frequencies that are ultimately projections from another dimension, a deeper order of existence that is beyond both space and time: The brain is a hologram enfolded in a holographic universe.

hayalet öykülerinin teorilerinden birisi de, bunlar?n ölmü? bireylerin ruhlar? oldu?u yolundad?r, ancak tüm hayaletler insan de?ildir.Kimilerinin de cans?z nesnelerin hayaletlerini görmekte oldu?u hakk?nda say?s?z kay?t vard?r ve bu da, böylesi görünümlerin bedenden ayr?lm?? ruhlar oldu?u inanc?n? yalanlamaktad?r.

Bütün dünyam?z?n ve bar?nd?rd??? her ?eyin, yaln?zca ba?ka bir gerçeklik düzeyinden yans?t?lan hayaletimsi imgeler olabilece?i konusunda baz? kan?tlar vard?r.

I wonder if this is what it feels like, falling out of love: feeling yourself fading out of existence - the gray sky, the coffee shop limbo - everything a way station of sorts. Making promises you know you can't keep. Making promises - period. People in love shouldn't have to vow or demand, petition or exhort. Nothing. Not even question. No collisions with your surroundings or yourself - you move gently, unknowing, in time.

I believe that God—if he exists at all—is what we want him to be. The true God is unknowable, and so we dress him up in costumes that make him visible to us. Then we come up with a lot of very silly rules that we attribute to him and tell everyone if they don't follow those rules, they can't be part of the gang.

you either are or aren't

But think about it: Right from the start the odds are against you. It's kind of amazing that any of us ever get here at all.

mission is not primarily about going. Nor is mission primarily about doing anything. Mission is about being.

Death opens up the question of Being ... It is the shrine of Nothing and the shelter of Being.

rooted in 'the forgetting of Being'.

Enframing describes our narrow, restricted understanding of ourselves and all things in existence in terms of 'resources' to be organized, enhanced and exploited efficiently.

In fallenness one drifts along with the fads and trends of the crowd, caught up in the mindless busy-ness, and tranquillized by the secure feeling that everyone else is doing the same thing; things in general seem to have been worked out by us. Heidegger says that, in its fallenness, Dasein 'becomes blind to all its possibilities, and tranquillizes itself with that which is merely "actual"'. In its simplest form, fallenness is the non-awareness of what it means to be.