Quotes About Existence

Everything simple. No grinding worry, no chafing frustration, no wasted days slipping past. Only the beautiful, terrible now.

All times are end times for someone.

From the moment it is born, from the moment it is built, everything is always dying, decaying, drifting into chaos.

A man sleeps through most of his life, even when awake. You get so little time, yet still you spend it utterly oblivious. Angry, frustrated, fixated on meaningless nothings. That drawer does not close flush with the front of my desk. What cards does my opponent hold, and how much money can I win from him? I wish I were taller. What will I have for dinner, for I am not fond of parsnips?

I believe all Americans are born with certain inalienable rights. As a child of God, I believe my rights are not derived from the constitution. My rights are not derived from any government. My rights are not denied by any majority. My rights are because I exist. They were given to me and each of my fellow citizens by our creator, and they represent the essence of human dignity.

An immense body, encircling my delirium, a body made of wind and sunlight, crouching and stretching, encompassed the existence of the slightest human echo.

My wound existed before; I was born to embody it.

My wound existed before me, I was born to embody it.

There is an infinite field of energy that exists beyond our present concept of space and time, which unites all of us.

There's a future you—a you who already exists in the eternal present moment—who is actually calling himself or herself to the more familiar you who is reading this book.

Éste es el modelo más realista de un átomo. Materialmente es «nada», pero potencialmente lo es todo.

En cambio, cuando te encuentras en el armónico estado de creación, eres sin cuerpo, sin espacio, sin tiempo, pierdes la noción de ti. Te conviertes en conciencia pura, libre de las cadenas de la identidad que necesita la realidad exterior para recordar quién cree ser.

When we arrive at the conclusion that our physiological vehicle is made up of the same stuff as the rest of the universe, and these folks bump up against the notion that what animates the body is a form of energy—the same 99.99999 percent "nothing" that constitutes the physical universe—they either shrug and walk away or come to realize that there is something to this notion that a unifying principle pervades all of physical reality.

Part II of this book, metaphysics moves into concrete manifestation. You can do these meditations yourself easily, experiencing firsthand the expanded possibilities of being your own placebo. The goal here is to change your beliefs and perceptions about your life at a biological level so that you are, in essence, loving a new future into concrete material existence.

In other words, a particle cannot manifest in reality—that is, ordinary space-time as we know it—until we observe it.1

If an atom is 99.99999 percent energy and .00001 percent physical substance,1 then I'm actually more nothing than something! So why do I keep my attention on that small percentage of the physical world when I am so much more?

The things that were once so important to me really no longer mattered. And I started asking big questions like "Who am I?"; "What is the meaning of this life?"; "What am I doing here?"; "What's my purpose?"; and "What or who is God?

If an atom is 99.99999 percent energy and .00001 percent physical substance,1 then I'm actually more nothing than something! So why do I keep my attention on that small percentage of the physical world when I am so much more? Is defining my present reality by what I perceive with my senses the biggest limitation I have?

And the knowledge of how to stay sane in this rapidly worsening situation can seem hard to come by - as if it's hiding away from our crude, self-obsessed, materialistic culture. Consequently many people live and die without ever knowing such wisdom exists, (though perhaps it was never withheld from those who sincerely sought it).

Everyone you lost was still there with you, and so maybe no one was ever lost at all.

He understood that the ghost existed first and foremost within his own head. That maybe ghosts always haunted minds, not places. If he wanted to take a shot at it, he'd have to turn the barrel against his own temple.

sin, which was another word for 'live.

He understood that the ghost existed first and foremost within his own head. That maybe ghosts always haunted minds, not places.

So much of what was best in life went unnoticed in the moments you had it.