Quotes About Existence

This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof.

Each of us, A CEll Of Awareness... imperfect, and incomplete. Genetic blends, with uncertain ends.

I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.

Every philosophy is the philosophy of a stage of life, Nietzsche remarked.

The cosmos offers no absolute confirmations

The God of the Jews was to exist in the Word and through the Word, an unprecedented conception requiring the highest order of abstract thinking. Iconography thus became blasphemy so that a new kind of God could enter a culture.

God is everywhere, you know.

If you can go through life without experiencing pain you probably havenÂ't been born yet.

I'm not into organized religion. I'm into believing in a higher source of creation, realizing we're all just part of nature.

This old world keeps spinnin' round; It's a wonder tall trees ain't layin' down.

Was there a person who existed beneath languages?

You thought that you were the permanent part of your own experience, the net that held it all together—until you discovered that there were many selves, dissolving into one another so quickly over time that the buildings and the trees and even the pavement turned out to have more substance than you did.

Truth, after all, does not ask for our permission or require our concurrence. It simply is. With or without us.

The meaning of life has not much to do with good and evil, right and wrong, duty, honor, country, or any of that. It has to do with cutting the right deal.

The Human Being, as we imagine it, does not exist.

I AM THAT I AM. [Exodus 3:14]

Never claim, "I shall be that," Let all claims from now on be, "I AM that I AM.

He is in the world, and the world was made by Him, and the world knows Him not.

Man thinks he has to work himself out of something, but it is God asleep in you as a living soul, and then we are reborn as a life-giving spirit. We do it here in this little classroom called Earth or beyond the grave, for you cannot die. You can be just as asleep beyond the grave. I meet them constantly, and they are just like this. Same loves and same hates. No change. They will go through it until they finally awake, until they

Your world in its every detail is your consciousness objectified.

The consciousness of being is not dependent upon being anything. It preceded all conceptions of itself and shall be when all conceptions of itself shall cease to be. "I AM the beginning and the end." That is, all things or conceptions of myself begin and end in me, but I, the formless awareness, remains forever.

You will from time to time know yourself to be many things, but you need not be anything to know that you are.

You will know that you are; you will also discover that this knowing that you are is God, the Father, which preceded all that you ever knew yourself to be. Before the world was you were aware of being and so you were saying "I AM," and I AM will be, after all that you know yourself to be shall cease to be.

By this law—first conceiving, then becoming that conceived—all things evolve out of No-thing; and without this sequence there is not anything made that is made.