Quotes About Existence

Fate. Free will. God. Three frames of reference that have sustained cultures for centuries. Three frames of reference that can never be proved or disproved.

God had stood up when man had not.

point of existence is not to accumulate merit, but to attain wisdom. We have to ask ourselves—why do we do what we do? When we truly accept the answer, we break free from the cycle of births and deaths, and discover the realm beyond Swarga, Vaikuntha, where there is peace forever.

What we mean by 'life' is a psychological response to the physical world.

No one person can ever take credit for a moment in this cosmos.

What is the most amazing thing about the world? 'Every day creatures die, yet the rest live as if immortal.

Stars, rocks and rivers are not sentient. They move, but do not act. They do not seek opportunities or avoid threats. They do not feel or think. If they do, we do not know, as they cannot express themselves, or at least we cannot fathom their responses. They do not seem to experience death, as they do not demonstrate any struggle for life. Even

The world that you perceive is actually a delusion (maya) based on your chosen measuring scale.

God and Goddess. Purusha and Prakriti. Observer and observation. Subject and object. That's what it is. Not this, not that; this too, that too. That's who we are. Tat tvam asi.

To let our potential be realized without deriving our identity from it, or without denying its existence, is the hallmark of wisdom.

Realization occurs only when samsara is witnessed, not reacted to. This is moksha.

Bhartrihari has to confront the horror of human existence. We can never know everything and we can never be sure. All information is incomplete, and all readings distorted by personal prejudice. And yet we have to take decisions all the time and hope the results favour us.

We may classify these ideas as secular or religious, rational or supernatural, value one over the other, but they are essentially creations of humans, by humans, for humans. They are artificial constructions, not natural phenomena. They have no independent existence outside humans.

The longstanding neglect of the fascinating, pioneering group of women writers of the Romantic period is now a thing of the past . . . [but] our merely recognizing their existence does not mean that our work is done.

Hidup tak pernah berakhir mati. Hidup hanya berganti wujud. Dan sepanjang perjalanan hidup, kau dan aku, kita semua, hanya berjalan menembusi satu tabir itu saja. -Rimba Amniotik-

Have you ever heard silence? It is not a stillness which is the absence of sound. Silence is not empty, it is full of content. It is like the sky?intangible yet containing the stars, the sun, the moon, and all existence. That is silence and it is full of tongues.

Live like tomorrow doesn't exist.

Where do you live?' is ultimately a sacred question.

We must abandon the external height images in which the theistic God has historically been perceived and replace them with internal depth images of a deity who is not apart from us, but who is the very core and ground of all that is. —Paul Tillich

Throughout the first five centuries people understood Christianity primarily as a way of life in the present, not as a doctrinal system, esoteric belief, or promise of eternal salvation. By followers enacting Jesus's teachings, Christianity changed and improved the lives of its adherents and served as a practical spiritual pathway. This way—and earliest Christians were called "the People of the Way"—bettered existence for countless ancient believers.

the future has already happened, just like the past. And one day you will see that there are no answers, only the places we make.

All the people we loved, who have died, are still alive in the past. The only thing that really separates us is time. It's a matter of perspective. That's what separates optimism and pessimism.

We lived our lives as if life was forever. To live one's life without a sense of time is to squander it.

It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.