Quotes About Existence

I see no reason why I should not live on indefinitely just as I have done, and on the whole I am more comfortable here than in Purgatory, a place that I imagine to be like the suburbs of London.

Life is a mystery as deep as ever death can be.

What are we, the inhabitants of this globe, least among the many that people infinite space? Our minds embrace infinity; the visible mechanism of our being is subject to merest accident.

The biggest fear of my life is living. My second biggest fear is dying.

What is God? God is the great life that fills the universe; it is the principle of life aswell.

The Ordinary Life: the misery seems planned, the happiness accidental.

While there's life, there's fear.

Life is always rich, thought only occasionally so.

Pain is itself a god: the taskmaster of life. Pain cracks the whip, and all that lives will move. To live is to be a slave to pain.

A life that is lived without regard to God cannot be called living.

Meditation is the art of life. Meditation is not simply a practice. It is an experience, awareness, and a way of perceiving life.

The wheel goes round and round and round forever. Pleasure, pain, birth and death, lifetime after lifetime, it is endless. All sentient beings experience this, the endless dance of life, the lila.

We are immortal life. Think of the opportunity of self-realization. What a gas!

There is suffering and there is joy. Your life is very short, and then you're back again for another and another, forever, unless you step off the wheel.

Everybody here is so caught up in the game of life they don't see death. They don't see beyond their deaths. They are on the wheel of birth and death.

There is illusion, the way you see things now, thinking that there is a tomorrow, there is a today, there is time and that there is life and death. Those are just appearances

You can't die. Bodies come and go but your spirit is eternal. You're the stuff that life is.

We don't really remember where we came from, and we're not too sure about where we go to, if we are, after this thing we call life.

When you see that you are not the body, that the body comprises only a small fraction of the aggregate of your awareness, then death is no fear, life is no fear, there is no fear.

Nothing you can do can prevent your death. Nothing you can do can prevent your rebirth. To step beyond life and death is self-discovery.

You have to become that infinite formless creation, which is life, to know it. It cannot be known in an intellectual sense. That is enlightenment.

Enlightenment means that you're living fully, and it means that you die fully. And then you go beyond life and death completely, everything, nothing, all, and beyond all.

The pure air and dazzling snow belong to things beyond the reach of all personal feeling, almost beyond the reach of life.

If you start out with a tragic view of life, then anything since is just a bonus.