Quotes About Existence

Death is the greatest illusion of all.

God comes to you disguised as your life.

The only thing we can be certain of in this life is that we can be certain of nothing.

Life is here only to be lived so that we can, through life, earn the right to death, which to me is paradise. Whatever it is that will bring me the reward of paradise, I'll do the best I can.

Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it? Do you realize you've lived nearly half the time you have to live already?

Only to live, to live and live! Life, whatever it may be!

Life is a near-death experience.

There is one thing in life that you can always rely on: life being as it is.

There is no normal life, there's just life. You live it.

We imagine that waking-life is real and that dream-life is unreal, but there does not seem to be any evidence for this belief.

The world, life and human beings are only an illusion, a phantom, a dream image.

Existence came from God; death came by Adam; and immortality and eternal life come through Christ.

Zazen is an activity that is an extension of the universe. Zazen is not the life of an individual, it's the universe that's breathing.

The formless dimension of life is this moment. This moment is timeless and formless - the eternal itself.

He who breathes deepest lives most.

The duty to be alive is the same as the duty to become oneself, to develop into the individual one potentially is.

Guilt results from unused life, from the unlived in us.

I recognize my limits but when I look around I realise I am not living exactly in a world of giants.

Only when the clock stops does time come to life

Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.

There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations--these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat.

One must love life before loving its meaning ... yes, and when the love of life disappears, no meaning can console us.

There is no enlightenment outside of daily life.

Most certainly, some planets are not inhabited, but others are, and among these there must exist life under all conditions and phases of development.