Quotes About Existence

I am, as it were, an eye that the cosmos uses to look at itself.

A day, whether six or seven ago, or more than six thousand years ago, is just as near to the present as yesterday. Why? Because all time is contained in the present Now-moment.

This is like the joke where the guy climbs the mountain and asks the guru, 'What is the secret of life?,' and the guru says, 'All is One,' and the guys says, 'Are you kidding?,' and the guru says, 'You mean it isn't?

Once you're born, the worst has already happened.

As Aquinas, the quintessential theologian, says: "The notion of form is most fully realized in existence itself. And in God existence is not acquired by anything, but God is existence itself subsistent. It is clear, then, that God himself is both limitless and perfect."28

life's a deep gloom ocean and we're lit-up funfish of dementional zaazz,

my favorite Zen saying," said Dee. "Once you're born, the worst has already happened.

This is a great and terrible world. I never knew there were so many men alive in it.

The world is very lovely, and it's very horrible--and it doesn't care about your life or mine or anything else.

Is it easier to be than to do?

How can I know anything about the past or the future, when the light of the Beloved shines only Now.

This world's existence is one night long. There's a great lively gathering that night, but some people sleep through it.

Is what I say true? Say yes quickly, if you know, if you've known it from before the beginning of the universe.

You're born naked and the rest is drag." In truth, you are not your clothes, you are not your profession, you are not your religion. You are an extension of the consciousness that guides the universe, for which there is no name because it cannot be defined. That's why all the superficial things you list as your identity are in reality your "drag.

After all, it's difficult to obtain a student loan for a school that not only denies its own existence but teaches its students how to deny other people theirs.

cosmologists have come to the conclusion that known kinds of matter and energy constitute only about 4 per cent of the universe. The rest consists of dark matter and dark energy. The nature of 96 per cent of physical reality is literally obscure.8

It was as if Jed had moved from one dimension to another. His original dimension hadn't reported him missing, and his new dimension didn't acknowledge his presence. Maybe what he'd really done was end up somewhere between the two. Some days he almost felt invisible.

Hegel claimed that reality was essentially reason and logic – "whatever is rational is real, and whatever is real is rational".

Until death comes, all is life.

We must love someone. We must keep loving, all our days, Someone, anyone, anywhere Outside our selves; For even the sarus crane Will grieve over its lost companion, And the seal its mate. Somewhere in life There must be someone To take your hand And share the torrid day. Without the touch of love There is no life, and we must fade away.

And until death comes, all is life.

I knew I was free; that I had always been free; held back only by my own weakness, lacking impulse and the imagination to break away from an existence that had become habitual for years.

To the inhabitants of the pond, the pond was the world; and to the inhabitants of the world, the world was but a muddy pond.

We Must Love Someone We Must Love Someone If we are to justify Our presence on this earth. We must keep loving all our days, Someone, anyone, anywhere Outside our selves; For even the sarus crane Will grieve over its lost companion, And the seal its mate. Somewhere in life There must be someone To take your hand And share the torrid day. Without the touch of love There is no life, and we must fade away.