Quotes About Existence

Don't you realize," Merlin said to his pupil, "that the history of the universe has brought us here to this second?

it's as if the universe has a sense of humor, since at a deep level it's impossible not to lead a spiritual life… the universe is living through you at this moment. with or without belief in god, the chain of events leading from silent awareness to physical reality remains intact.

Why are we here? We exist not to pursue happiness, which is fleeting, or outer accomplishment, which can always be bettered. We are here to nourish the self.

Molecules dissolve and pass away, but consciousness survives the death of the matter on which it rides.

Yet the only reason you believe that you were born is that your parents saw you emerge from the womb. They thought they witnessed the moment when you began to exist, so they spread the rumor that you had been born." Savitri was astonished. . .

The same faint song is heard in everything: "Behold yourself".

There can be no sense of security in your existence when it depends upon outside factors, for the unpredictable changes of reality can never be controlled.

Our lives are like ripples in the vast ocean of consciousness; like waves we rise and fall, yet we never disappear, for the ocean is infinite and eternal, and a wave is nothing but that ocean.

Contrary to some of our great myths, the universe was not created once upon a time, but rather is constantly being created and re-created.

In the vastness of the ocean there is no individual "I" clamoring for attention. There are waves and eddies and tides, but it is all, in the end, ocean. We are all patterns of nonlocality pretending to be people. In the end, it is all spirit.

Suffering contains a hidden spiritual message. It exists until the message is heard.

Nature isn't outside us; it moves in, around, and through us. If you align yourself with the movement of creation, you will experience flow and ease. If you oppose the movement of creation, you will meet obstacles and resistance.

Everyone was asleep, totally unconscious about their true nature.

You will know your own innocence again when you can see the love that breathes within every iota of creation.

You are inseparably part of the cosmic quantum soup.

Countless acts of observation give substance and reality to what would otherwise be ghosts of existence. This solves the so-called "measurement problem" of

there is actually no fixed spot in the universe for measuring time.

We are placed here in this world to manage a project that is equivalent to building a new universe every day. Creating yourself is not just a full-time job, it is a staggering one.

True wizards are not bound by (time); we live in the past, present and future all at once.

The mystery of Buddha's cure is this: What you seek you already are.

Your own innocence is the only flower that exists. It never fades, and because of that, the world never fades either.

Where in Schrödinger's equation is the joy of being alive?

The divine doesn't appear by glimpses, in peak moments with sudden blinding light. The divine is constant; it is we who come and go.

If reality is nonlocal why does it appear to our senses as local and separated?