Quotes About Existence

Now consider this: If there were nothing but silence, it wouldn't exist for you; you wouldn't know what it is. Only when sound appears does silence come into being.

Form is emptiness, emptiness is form

There are no random events, nor are there events or things that exist by and for themselves, in isolation.

The positive already contains within itself the as yet unmanifested negative.

Cuando la conciencia se libera de su identificación con las formas físicas y mentales, se vuelve lo que podemos llamar conciencia pura o iluminada, o presencia.

Descartes, of course, the French philosopher said: I think therefore I am. If he had waited a little bit longer before saying anything, he could have come to the point of cessation of thinking and then he could have made the more profound statement: I am conscious therefore I am. Thinking is only an expression of consciousness: a surface expression of consciousness.

That is the joy of Being,' I said. 'You can only feel it when you get out of your head. Being must be felt. It can't be thought.

the ultimate purpose of the world lies not within the world but in transcendence of the world.

This is normal, and it is insane.

But I still have to pay the bills tomorrow, and I am still going to grow old and die just like everybody else. So how can I ever say that I am free of time?

There is no salvation in time. You cannot be free in the future. Presence is the key to freedom, so you can only be free now.

The oak tree or the eagle would be bemused by such a question. "What time?" they would ask. "Well, of course, it's now. The time is now. What else is there?" Yes, we need the mind as well as time to function in this world, but there comes a point where they take over our lives, and this is where dysfunction, pain, and sorrow set in.

We have forgotten how to be — to be still, to be ourselves, to be where life is: Here and Now.

finding your true nature beyond name and form.

What is my relationship with Life? This question is an excellent way of unmasking the ego in you and bringing you into the state of Presence.

Being is the very Intelligence whose visible manifestation is the physical universe.

The very reason for our existence in human form is to bring that dimension of consciousness into this world.

Just as space enables all things to exist and just as without silence there could be no sound, you would not exist without the vital formless dimension that is the essence of who you are. We could say God if the word had not been so misused. I prefer to call it Being. Being is prior to existence. Existence is form, content, what happens. Existence is the foreground of life; Being is the background, as it were.

It is the essence of all galaxies and blades of grass;

I think" is just as false a statement as "I digest" or "I circulate my blood." Digestion happens, circulation happens, thinking happens.

Life is now. There was never a time when your life was not now, nor will there ever be.

Este ser falso, elaborado por la mente, el ego, se siente vulnerable, inseguro y siempre está buscando cosas nuevas con las cuales identificarse para que le den una sensación de que existe.

Know Thyself. What those words imply is this: Before you ask any other question, first ask the most fundamental question of your life: Who am I?

The pain-body wants to survive, just like every other entity in existence, and it can only survive if it gets you to unconsciously identify with it.