Quotes About Existence

Beauty?... To me it is a word without sense because I do not know where its meaning comes from nor where it leads to.

Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar.

Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar.

Everything you can imagine is real.

If every word introduces a new concept, the simple phrase "all that which does not exist" is sufficient to make everything that does not exist, exist.

To say "all that which does not exist" is to introduce, effectively, a new concept, but it does not bring into existence anything more than that very concept which it introduces. That is, a certain entity about which we know nothing except that it bears the name of "all that which does not exist.

human life doesn't have truth. We're born screaming in doubt, and we die suffocating in doubt, and human life consists of continually convincing ourselves we're alive. One of the ways we know we're alive is we love each other...

In modern science the methods of analysis are principally applied to investigating the nature of material entities. Thus, the ultimate nature of matter is sought through a reductive process and the macroscopic world is reduced to the microscopic world of particles. Yet, when the nature of these particles is further examined, we find that ultimately their very existence as objects is called into question.

death holds up an all-seeing mirror, 'the mirror of past actions', to our eyes, in which the consequences of all our negative and positive actions are clearly seen and there is a weighing of our past actions in the light of their consequences, the balance of which will determine the kind of existence or mental state we are being driven to enter.

All phenomena of samsara and nirvana are your own mind.

When samsaric existence is freed in itself, there is no awakened state to accomplish apart form that. Once you realize this, samsara and nirvana are not two.

When samsaric existence is freed in itself, there is no awakened state to accomplish apart from that. Once you realize this, samsara and nirvana are not two.

De acuerdo con la tradición, Padmasambhava era un ser iluminado que había decidido volver a la existencia en la Tierra para enseñar la doctrina budista.

De acuerdo con la tradición, Padmasambhava era un ser iluminado que había decidido volver a la existencia en la Tierra para enseñar la doctrina budista. Tenía la capacidad de volar, atravesar

There cannot be a personal God without a pessimistic religion. A personal God is a disappointing God; and Job, Omar Khayyam, Euripides, Palladas, Voltaire and Professor Housman will denounce him. With Buddhism, Taoism, Quietism, and the God of Spinoza there can be no disappointment, because there is no Appointment.

A horse is the projection of peoples' dreams about themselves - strong, powerful, beautiful - and it has the capability of giving us escape from our mundane existence.

You, making the assumption that you're an average-size human being, contain no less than 7 times 10 to the 18th (7 1018) joules of potential energy.

the universe doesn't exist without a perceiver of that universe.") All

You cannot know wisdom. You can only be wisdom.

Energy is liberated matter, and matter is energy waiting to happen.

After a visit to the beach, it's hard to believe that we live in a material world.

Perhaps he was recalling the German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer, who wrote in the nineteenth century: "When we are ascending the hill of life, death is not visible: it lies down at the bottom of the other side. But once we have crossed the top of the hill, death comes in view—death, which, until then, was known to us only by hearsay.")

There are stages of becoming a grown-up. First, you definitely aren't one. Then you pretend to be one. Then you're sure that there are no grown -ups; that they're mythological and don't really exist. And then finally, maybe one day in your forties, you just are one.

Accepting the world's realities, even when you didn't understand them, was a basic necessity of existence in Ozark life.