Quotes About Existence

Life is a flash of lightning in the dark of night. It is a brief time of tremendous potential.

In Buddhism, consciousness is central because all phenomena are realized to be mere appearances to consciousness that have no independent existence.

God, the soul, salvation, consciousness, love, free will, and purely spiritual causation may seem far more real to you than elementary particles and energy fields. I suggest that if you were able to focus your attention at will, you could actually choose the universe you appear to inhabit.

Life is a dream. We wake up when we die" ~ B. Habyarimana.

What is the meaning to life? Life is not such a small imisible spec as to only have one meaning. It is up to each individual to identify their own meaning of life. Or to say that their is not one. The answer lies with you.

Freedom is an illusion, but a valuable one.

the statesman will soon find himself thwarted in some way or other, will deduce from this opposition a menace first to his plans, then to national prestige, and finally to the existence of the state itself — and so, regarding his country as the party attacked, will engage in a war of defence.

This woman was the catalyst that had jarred him out of his mere existence and dragged him back into life. She had made him feel, even made him hope, both dangerous for a man like him with a past like his.

Relaxation begins from the outer layer of the body and penetrates the deep layers of our existence.

begins the Yoga S?tras with atha, meaning 'now', and ends with iti, 'that is all'. Besides this search for the soul, there is nothing.

While me must recognize the existence and importance of pain, we must not glorify it. Where pain exists, there must be a reason for it.

If you say you are your body, you are wrong. If you say you are not your body, you are also wrong. The truth is that although body is born, lives, and dies, you cannot catch a glimpse of the divine except through the body.

The moment you bring attention, you are creating something, and creation has life and energy.

Awareness brings life.

It is odd that the Bible says, 'God created man,' whereas it is the other way round: man has created God. It is odd that the Bible says, 'The body is mortal, the soul is immortal,' whereas even here the contrary is true: the body (its matter) is eternal; the soul (the form of the body) is transitory.

The embodied soul has two purposes to fulfill: Experience the world, and get liberation from all experiences.

God is the only lover and He loves in different forms -- parents, husband, wife, friend, children, animals. All are His forms and He, Himself, has no form.

Among creations I am the beginning, the middle, and also the end, O Arjuna, I am the science of the Self, and I am the logic of all arguments.

Anything that exists will never be destroyed; its disappearance is simply a transformation.

Death, decay, negativity, inconsistency and imperfection are illusory superimpositions

Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift. That's why we call it the present.

So you're a private detective. I didn't know they existed, except in books, or else they were greasy little men snooping around hotel corridors.

To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.

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