Quotes About Existence

The cutting edge of this instant right here and now is always nothing less than the totality of everything there is.

whole community of millions of living things living out their lives in a kind of benign continuum.

I hope later she will see and feel a thing about these prairies I have given up talking to others about; a thing that exists here because everything else does not and can be noticed because other things are absent.

The making of a painting or the fixing of a motorcycle isn't separate from the rest of your existence.

One lives longer in order that he may live longer. There is no other purpose.

But apart from a personality what is there? Some bones and flesh. A collection of legal statistics, perhaps, but surely no person.

What is the truth and how do you know it when you have it?... How do we really know anything? Is there an I a soul, which knows, or is this soul merely cells coordinating senses?... Is reality basically changing, or is it fixed and permanent?... When it's said that something means something, what's meant by that?

They contain no matter," I continue, "and have no energy and therefore, according to the laws of science, do not exist except in people's minds.

One lives longer in order that he may live longer. There is no other purpose. That is what the ghost says.

the track of Quality preselects what data we're going to be conscious of, and it makes this selection in such a way as to best harmonize what we are with what we are becoming.

All nature has is a potential for steel. There's nothing else there. But what's 'potential'? That's also in someone's mind!... Ghosts.

What we think of as reality is a continuous synthesis of elements from a fixed hierarchy of a priori concepts and the ever changing data of the senses.

He isn't so interested in what things mean as in what they are.

Since the world obviously doesn't function normally when Quality is subtracted, Quality exists, whether it's defined or not.

what he wants, is all around him, but he doesn't want that because it is all around

I wake up wondering if I know we're near mountains because of memory or because of something in the air.

that Quality was the effect of subjects and objects. It was not! He brought out his knife. "The sun of quality," he wrote, "does not revolve around the subjects and objects of our existence. It does not just passively illuminate them. It is not subordinate to them in any way. It has created them. They are subordinate to it!

Any intellectually conceived object is always in the past and therefore unreal. Reality is always the moment of vision before the intellectualization takes place. There is no other reality.

But what's "potential"? That's also in someone's mind!…Ghosts.

curar males para que la gente pueda vivir más tiempo; sólo los locos se preguntan para qué. Uno vive más tiempo con el objeto de vivir más tiempo. No existe otro propósito. Eso es lo que dice el fantasma.

That concrete whizzing by five inches below your foot is the real thing, the same stuff you walk on, it's right there, so blurred you can't focus on it, yet you can put your foot down and touch it anytime, and the whole thing, the whole experience, is never removed from immediate consciousness

I go on living, more from force of habit than anything else.

The Buddha, the Godhead, resides quite as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer or the gears of a cycle transmission as he does at the top of a mountain or in the petals of a flower.

But if you can't say what Quality is, how do you know what it is, or how do you know that it even exists? If no one knows what it is, then for all practical purposes it doesn't exist at all. But for all practical purposes it really does exist.