Quotes About Existence

The primitive man has one quality, elaborated and maintained by the very necessities of his hard struggle for life – he identifies his own existence with that of his tribe; and without that quality mankind never would have attained the level as it has attained now.

We must recognize, and loudly proclaim, that every one, whatever his grade in the old society, whether strong or weak, capable or incapable, has, before everything, THE RIGHT TO LIVE, and that society is bound to share amongst all, without exception, the means of existence at its disposal.

To lie is to degrade and besmirch oneself," we say, and yet all civilized life becomes one huge lie. We accustom ourselves and our children to hypocrisy, to the practice of a double-faced morality. And since the brain is ill at ease among lies, we cheat ourselves with sophistry. Hypocrisy and sophistry become the second nature of the civilized man. But a society cannot live thus; it must return to truth or cease to exist.

Man did not create society; society existed before man.

Whatever happens "here below" is but a pale reflection of what takes place "up above.

God is, or he is not. Which way should we incline? Reason cannot answer.

There are some people who do not need fifteen seconds on the Evening News to validate their existence.

Art has little to do with made things, but rather concerns a state of mind, a way of being, a gesture that cannot be betrayed, a life

And only the enlightened can recall their former lives; for the rest of us, the memories of past existences are but glints of light, twinges of longing, passing shadows, disturbingly familiar, that are gone before they can be grasped, like the passage of that silver bird on Dhaulagiri.

This world is painted on a wild dark metal

Today most scientists would agree with the ancient Hindus that nothing exists or is destroyed, things merely change shape or form…the cosmic radiation that is thought to come from the explosion of creation strikes the earth with equal intensity from all directions, which suggests either that the earth is at the center of the universe, as in our innocence we once supposed, or that the known universe has no center.

And if there is a devil,/ Then there must be a god.

What is life except excuse for death, or death except escape from life?' Recall my name with kindness now and then.

Truth is I don't think God on a daily basis. I think politics, science.

What is a lie? It is to say what is real is not real. It is to deny the existence of what exists.

I am human, all too bloody human.

whoever today still doubts the real existence of demonic powers has widely misunderstood the metaphysical background to this war.

We confuse being some thing with Being.

Once a conceptual identity occupies the place of "self," this is what we think we are "being.

Enlightenment: Some Nothing from Which to Come

So when searching for the "absolute existence," we need to acknowledge that our relationship to "reality" is to consider our perception of physical conditions as objective and real, and our perception of the mind's activities as subjective and just made up.

Self-survival is the cause of all suffering.

Again, I invite you to consider that if you can identify with character traits, qualities, thinking, or experiences other than what you identify with now, then you must not actually be any of these elements. If this is so, who are you? What are you? If you try to pin down who you really are, you will search your mind and attempt to grab onto an idea, or feeling, or sense. Yet that very idea, feeling, or sense itself can be let go, and so it can't be you either. See how this works?

Focus on is for a moment. The nature of is still "is" even if nothing exists. If everything is destroyed, is remains. How can is go anywhere? There is nowhere to go. The nature of is is Nothing. The nature of is is absolute. If you identify with is then nothing can come or go. There is nothing that needs to be or not be.