Quotes About Existence

The monster does not need the hero. it is the hero who needs him for his very existence. When the hero confronts the monster, he has yet neither power nor knowledge, the monster is his secret father who will invest him with a power and knowledge that can belong to one man only, and that only the monster can give.

Whatever else it might be, the divine is certainly the thing that imposes with maximum intensity the sensation of being alive.

The biggest danger in life is that the food of humans is all made of souls.

The embodied self is the same person who woke to the world in a burst of visonary immediacy, who soon found that he was not the center of that world but on the contrary, a dependent and even hapless creature, and who then discovered that he was doomed to die

So we must run back and forth between these two suns in our firmament—the presentiment of death and awareness of life—and avoid being transfixed by either of them. If we are lucky in this uncertain middle distance, we may form attachments and projects that enhance the sentiment of life. However, even as we try our luck, death comes to us, and brings our experiment to a end.

Insofar we are death-bound, existence is urgent and frightful. Insofar as are groundless, it is vertiginous and dreamlike. Insofar as we are insatiable, it is unquiet and tormented.

All eras of history are an equal distance from eternity.

Tell me who you are. You need not tell me your name. Names have power, even human ones. Tell me where you live and what you do with your living.

She was surprised into looking into the Beast's face. The contrasts she found there were too great: wisdom and despair, power and weakness, man and animal. These made him far more terrible than any hungry lion, any half-tamed hydra, any angry sorcerer, terrible as something that should not exist is terrible, because to recognise that it does exist shakes that faith in the foundations of the natural world which human beings must have to bear the burden of their rationality.

I'm real, too. I just don't know, real what.

I'd be looking at some stony sculpture Michelangelo would have killed his grandmother to be able to do, and thinking, I don't know that color, that color doesn't exist, but like wow.

No one, mortal, immortal, or creatures beyond the knowledge of either, can belong to two worlds.

one must not allow the clock and the calender to blind him to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle --and mystery

We live in an age when we have forgotten what life is all about.

To breathe properly is to live properly.

you begin to sense the sacredness of your being.

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.' I

our days are nothing more than our lives in miniature.

La única manera de lidiar con este mundo sin libertad es volverte tan absolutamente libre que tu mera existencia sea un acto de rebelión».

Do not live as if you have ten thousand years left. Your fate hangs over you. While you are still living, while you still exist on this Earth, strive to become a genuinely great person." —Marcus Aurelius, Roman emperor

Verás tu vida como lo que realmente es: una pequeña marca en el lienzo de la eternidad.

One must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind him to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle — and a mystery.

Heaven on Earth Is a State, Not a Place.

No somos seres humanos con una experiencia espiritual. Somos seres espirituales con una experiencia humana.»