Quotes About Being

We ourselves are not an illusory part of Reality; rather are we Reality itself illusorily conceived.

But even a monster has hope. He hopes that someday he'll go back to being a normal human being.

not only is consciousness in us, we are in consciousness.

Metaphysics: One of the main topics of philosophy and a bit of a catchall for everything that isn't logic, epistemology, or ethics. Metaphysics looks at the Big Picture: What is "being"? What is the cosmos and what is it made of? Also, incidentally, what is the meaning of life?

First, we exist, and next, we create ourselves.

Work without working, and play without playing. Do without doing, and be without being. To live an effortless life, simply be yourself.

The desire to be wholly available to life suffices. You do not have to be involved in, or to practice, or to believe anything whatsoever. The ultimate things present themselves in such a simple way that it is enough to experience them by yourself.

La lettura non ha niente a che fare con l'organizzazione del tempo sociale. La lettura è, come l'amore, un modo di essere.

La lettura non ha niente a che fare con l'organizzazione del tempo sociale. La lettura è, come l'amore, un modo di essere. La questione non è di sapere se ho o non ho tempo per leggere (tempo che nessuno, d'altronde, mi darà), ma se mi concedo o no la gioia di essere lettore.

Taoists, on the other hand, speak not of a supreme being but of a supreme state of being – a sublime state that lies deeply locked within every human being and can be reached only through the greatest personal effort and self-discipline.

Settle in the here and now. Reach down into the center where the world is not spinning and drink this holy peace. Feel relief flood into every cell. Nothing to do. Nothing to be but what you are already. Nothing to receive but what flows effortlessly from the mystery into form. Nothing to run from or run toward. Just this breath, Awareness knowing itself as embodiment. Just this breath, awareness waking up to truth.

At the core of all of us is a mighty spiritual being.

You are the difference that God makes," the Being of Light communicated to me. "And that difference is love.

I would like to lose All awareness Of my being To blend Into nature And become a leaf A cloud Or the yellow of the rainbow

No matter how long I linger with any being, I cannot exhaust the dynamic enigma of its presence.

She had long been aware that her organic being produced all the physical expressions of emotion, while she herself felt nothing. It was a paradox.

Depression is not a state of mind but a state of being.

Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. I use the word "love" here not merely in the personal sense but as a state of being, or a state of grace - not in the infantile American sense of being made happy but in the tough and universal sense of quest and daring and growth.

Everything is Song. Everything is Silence. Since it all turns out to be illusion, perfectly being what it is, having nothing to do with good or bad, you are free to die laughing.

Everything has always been here one way or another. So it must know what it's doing. And since I am part of this everything, a good part of me must be all right just the way it is, and the way it's doing it.

Without awareness, we are not truly alive.

What ages is not merely your functions and organs, but the whole of your nature, that particular person you have come to be and already were years ago.

Wayne Grudem, my friend and seminary professor, put it well: "God does not have size or spatial dimensions and is present at every point of space with His whole being, yet God acts differently in different places."19

We must not think of God as highest in an ascending order of beings starting with the single cell, then the fish, then the bird, then the animal, then man and angels and cherubs and God.… This would be to grant God eminence or even preeminence but that is not enough. We must grant God transcendence in the fullest meaning of that word. He's wholly other. He breaks all the categories of being and knowing.24