Quotes About Existence

We have had many lifetimes as human beings to learn of the many, many ways we do not wish to be.' 'But we're human,' she said 'and therefore we already are every way there is.' 'That's true,' he said 'but there is still a bit of room for choice, which is why it is worthwhile to remain in contact with your ancestors.

Don't look like nothing, she say. It ain't a picture show. It ain't something you can look at apart from anything else, including yourself. I believe God is everything, say Shug. Everything that is or ever was or ever will be. And when you can feel that, and be happy to feel that, you've found It.

We're asleep, said Suni. Just walking and talking, eating and shitting. Sound asleep. And we have to be that way, of course, said Anne. It's the human equivalent of fallowness. Spiritual hibernation, said Suni.

Being alive begin to seem like a awful strain.

Anyhow, he say, you know how it is. You ast yourself one question, it lead to fifteen. I start to wonder why us need love. Why us suffer. Why us black. Why us men and women. Where do children really come from. It didn't take long to realize I didn't hardly know nothing. And that if you ast yourself why you black or a man or a woman or a bush it don't mean nothing if you don't ast why you here, period.

God is inside you and inside everybody else. You come into the world with God. But only them that search for it inside find it. And sometimes it just manifest itself even if you not looking, or don't know what you looking for.

We have had many lifetimes as human beings to learn of the many, many ways we do not wish to be. But we are human, she said. And therefore we already are, every way there is

I believe God is everything, say Shug. Everything that is or ever was or ever will be. And when you feel that, and be happy to feel that, you've found It.

No one is exempt from the possibility of a conscious connection to All That Is.

No one is exempt from the possibility of a conscious connection to All That Is. Not the poor. Not the suffering. Not the writer sitting in the open field. This

I know I should be grateful, and I am. Parents are good. Sisters are good. I'm still alive. But that's not really enough, is it? That's low-bar shit. Living is more than surviving and scraping by, as if one should be grateful to have a pulse.

Living is more than surviving and scraping by as if one should be grateful to have a pulse.

God didn't put me on this street to provide disability awareness training to the likes of them. In fact, no god put anyone anywhere for any reason, if you want to know.

The only thing to transcend is the idea that there's something to transcend. Nirvana is samsara. I finally got the memo.

Well, while I'm here I'll do the work — and what's the work? To ease the pain of living. Everything else, drunken dumbshow.

Who can live with this Consciousness and not wake frightened at sunrise?

I know I'm not God, are you? Don't be silly. God? God? Everybody's God? Don't be silly.

he threw up his hands and wrote the Universe dont exist and died to prove it

Happiness exists I feel it. I cried for my soul, I cried for the world's soul. The world has a beautiful soul.

I saw you, Walt Whitman, childless, lonely old grubber,poking among the meats in the refrigerator and eyeing the grocery boys. I heard you asking questions of each: Who killed the pork chops? What price bananas? Are you my Angel?

Inside skull vast as outside skull

I do not wish to escape to myself, I wish to escape from myself. I wish to obliterate my consciousness and my knowledge of independent existence, my guilts, my secretiveness.

who were run down by the drunken taxicabs of Absolute Reality. . .

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