Quotes About Existence

Know yourself as beyond space and time - in contact with them only at the point of here and now, otherwise all-pervading and all-containing, unapproachable, unassailable, invulnerable - you will be afraid no longer. Know yourself as you are - against fear there is no other remedy.

You cannot be alive, for you are life itself.

See everything as emanating from the light which is the source of your own being. You will find that in that light there is love and infinite energy.

Reality is not the result of a process; it is an explosion.

Give up all and you gain all. Then life becomes what it was meant to be: pure radiation from an inexhaustible source. In that light, the world appears dimly like a dream.

S?owa tworz? ?wiaty. Rzeczywisto?? jest cisz?.

The name given to the body is not your name. What are you beyond the body and its name? For a moment, see that you are without the body and its name.' This is termed 'waiting at the doorstep of God for a moment'. Say what you are without considering the body and its name. Look at yourself without the body and its name. Understand this point and you understand everything.

Without my sense of being, what is the value of the world?

The core of Sri Nisargadatta's simple and direct message is this: focus on the 'I am' (consciousness, beingness) and enquire into its Source. In becoming conscious of consciousness itself, we may discover we are not limited to the body, mind, or any passing identity, thereby realising our unlimited nature in this very life.

prior to consciousness,

My birth was just an incident but my death will not go unnoticed

It is just as easy to bring death to man, and I've done so. It's harder to keep hold of life, harder still to maintain a grasp on health. Those are the tasks to which we must keep our minds.

Because what if instead of a story told in consecutive order, life is a cacophony of moments we never leave?

We are all equal in the face of nature.

Life is made of these moments - of one's physical being moving through time and space - and we string them together into a story, and that story becomes our life.

I was an old man, the father of the vilified. Would this be my life from here on out? Was I to become the argumentative man who can't control the volume of his own voice? The conspiracy nut with boxes of data who spouts dates and facts, as if coincidence alone can prove the existence of God?

mortal man. He saw a being

But what good is living if the life you lead is brittle and dead?

The lives we live, he thinks, are filled with holes.

We don't believe in God." "Their god. I'm talking about ours." "We get a god?" "We get the God. And he is mighty and righteous and pissed.

He just needed to hear his voice from time to time to remind himself that he was real.

It is not true to say that there is no self at all or that everything is empty or illusory, but it is true that everything is constantly changing and that there is no solid, permanent, unchanging self within the process that is life.

We can, for example, be fairly confident that either there will be a world without war or there won't be a world - at least, a world inhabited by creatures other than bacteria and beetles, with some scattering of others.

We can imagine a society in which no one could survive as a social being because it does not correspond to biologically determined perceptions and human social needs. For historical reasons, existing societies might have such properties, leading to various forms of pathology.