Quotes About Existence

The whole play of existence is so beautiful that laughter can be the only response to it. Only laughter can be the real prayer, gratitude.

The people who pretend that dying is rather like strolling into the next room always leave me unconvinced. Death, like birth, must be a tremendous event.

I would like to explain that I consider prayer above all an act of gratitude for existence.

Prayer offered without faith by a person that doesn't truly believe God exists will not be effective. Sin in our lives that we refuse to confess will also render our prayers ineffective.

Unless a man learns how to create, he never becomes a part of existence, which is constantly creative. By being creative one becomes divine; creativity is the only prayer.

He had been (Thinking? Praying?) It was all the same thing.

Prayer is not a pious decoration of life but the breath of human existence.

Man, made in the image of God, has a purpose - to be in relationship to God, who is there. Man forgets his purpose and thus he forgets who he is and what life means.

Ideology represents the imaginary relationship of individuals to their real conditions of existence.

No creature is fully itself till it is, like the dandelion, opened in the bloom of pure relationship to the sun, the entire living cosmos.

Life is a relationship among molecules and not a property of any molecule.

What has to be given up is not the I, as most mystics suppose: this I is indispensable for any relationship, including the highest, which always presupposes an I and You.

I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here; and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end.

In the beginning was the relationship.

Once you accept the existence of God - however you define him, however you explain your relationship to him - then you are caught forever with his presence in the center of all things.

A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships

To create is not to deform or invent persons and things. It is to tie new relationships between persons and things which are, and as they are.

That love is all there is, Is all we know of love.

Bad love is better than no love at all, at least you know you're alive.

A story is the relationship that you develop between who you are, or who you potentially are, and the infinite world.

All real living is meeting.

The ancient human question 'Who am I?' leads inevitably to the equally important question 'Whose am I?' - for there is no self outside of relationship.

To live without loving is not really to live.

Life itself is nothing but relationship.