Quotes About Existence

Space and silence are two aspects of the same thing. The same no-thing. They are externalization of inner space and inner silence, which is stillness: the infinitely creative womb of all existence.

Doing is never enough if you neglect Being.

You are awareness, disguised as a person.

At the deepest level of Being, you are one with all that is

Each person's life – each lifeform, in fact – represents a world, a unique way in which the universe experiences itself.

Life has no opposite. The opposite of death is birth. Life is eternal.

The brain does not create consciousness, but conciousness created the brain, the most complex physical form on earth, for its expression.

You are not separate from the whole. You are one with the sun, the earth, the air. You don't have a life. You are life.

The secret of life is to "die before you die" — and find that there is no death.

Humans are a dangerously insane and very sick species.

Let me say it again: the present moment is all you ever have.

You may remember the paradox of time we mentioned earlier: Whatever you do takes time, and yet it is always now. So while your inner purpose is to negate time, your outer purpose necessarily involves future and so could not exist without time. But it is always secondary. Whenever you become anxious or stressed, outer purpose has taken over, and you lost sight of your inner purpose. You have forgotten that your state of consciousness is primary, all else secondary.

Everything is honored, but nothing matters.

When this delusion of utter separateness underlies and governs whatever I think, say, and do, what kind of world do I create?

Stillness is the only thing in this world that has no form. But then, it is not really a thing, and it is not of this world.

The ultimate truth of who you are is not I am this or I am that, but I Am.

If you can be absolutely comfortable with not knowing who you are, then what's left is who you are -- the Being behind the human, a field of pure potentiality rather than something that is already defined.

The truth is: you don't have a life, you are life. The One Life, the one consciousness that pervades the entire universe and takes temporary form to experience itself as a stone or a blade of grass, as an animal, a person, a star or a galaxy. Can you sense deep within that you already know that? Can you sense that you already are That?

The present moment is all you will ever have.

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life.

If you were far out in space, you would see that the sun neither rises nor sets, but that it shines continuously. And yet, even after realizing that, we can continue to speak of the sunrise or sunset, still see its beauty, paint it, write poems about it, even though we now know that it is a relative rather than an absolute truth.

Why is old considered useless? Because in old age, the emphasis shifts from doing to Being, and our civilization, which is lost in doing, knows nothing of Being. It asks: Being? What do you do with it?

The present moment is all you ever have. There is never a time when your life is not 'this moment.

Death is not an anomaly or the most dreadful of all events as modern culture would have you believe, but the most natural thing in the world, inseparable from and just as natural as its polarity — birth.