Quotes About Existence

There is a crack in every thing God has made.

It's all real and it's all illusory: that's Awareness!

Across planes of consciousness, we have to live with the paradox that opposite things can be simultaneously true.

There's much more in any given moment than we usually perceive, and that we ourselves are much more than we usually perceive. When you know that, part of you can stand outside the drama of your life.

What the word God means is the mystery really. It's the mystery that we face as humans the mystery of existence, of suffering and of death.

What Einstein demonstrated in physics is equally true of all other aspects of the cosmos: all reality is relative. Each reality is true only within given limits. It is only one possible version of the way things are. There are always multiple versions of reality. To awaken from any single reality is to recognize its relative nature. Meditation is a device to do just that.

You two are together in the stars, but not in this world, in this life.

You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing. You don't have to do anything to earn it. Your shortcomings, your lack of self-esteem, physical perfection, or social and economic success - none of that matters. No one can take this love away from you, and it will always be here.

Our existence as embodied beings is purely momentary; what are a hundred years in eternity? But if we shatter the chains of egotism, and melt into the ocean of humanity, we share its dignity. To feel that we are something is to set up a barrier between God and ourselves; to cease feeling that we are something is to become one with God."—Gandhi

Meditation raises the question: Who are we really?

It's all right now But later?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . forget it baby That's later Now is Now Are you going to be here Or not? It's as simple as that!

The pure Buddha, the mind that is clear of attachment, exists anywhere in perfect harmony with all the forces around it.

the journey across the great ocean of existence Is a journey inward ever in deeper and deeper and the deeper you get in the more you meet truth

I tried to go the renunciate's way, to forget the needs of the body in order to avoid the suffering of the Ego. But the Soul depends on the Ego's drama for its teachings. We have to be in the world to learn from it.

Sub Ishwar hai

We are born into the world of nature; our second birth is into the world of spirit."—Bhagavad Gita

but who's minding the store?" When I could finally focus on the question, I realized that although everything by which I knew myself, even my body and this life itself, was gone, still I was fully aware!

And then there was a still less frequent experience where one looked at somebody and he started to see the other person as cellular structure or patterns of energy rather than as a person. And finally, a few subjects (maybe 3% or something like that) transcended all form and saw just pure energy—a homogeneous field. It has been called the White Light.

I am the thought I.

And it all just is, but without form. Because in order to know form, we have to be separate from it.

When you have started to awaken and see that there are other planes of reality that are equally valid to the one which presently exists, you learn how to live more or less with more and more planes simultaneously, which is what freedom is about. It's not totally standing in one plane, it's not standing anywhere at all.

Above all, man must learn once again what he is and why he was created.

To whom does this body belong? To the one that feeds it, the mother and father who bring it into being, to the master that buys its services, to the fire that consumes it finally, or to the dogs that gnaw its bones after the fire has done its work?

Siva who is known as Kaalatman, the Soul of Time. Kaala is inscrutable; only Siva is beyond Prakriti, Purusha and Kaala.