Quotes About Being

Is any man so foolish as to fear change, to which all things that once were not owe their being? And what is it, that is more pleasing and more familiar to the nature of the universe?

Casting therefore all other things aside, keep thyself to these few, and remember withal that no man properly can be said to live more than that which is now present, which is but a moment of time. Whatsoever is besides either is already past, or uncertain.

He who fears death either fears the loss of sensation or a different kind of sensation. But if you shall have no sensation, neither will you feel any harm; and if you shall acquire another kind of sensation, you will be a different kind of living being and you will not cease to live.

Let the god that is within you be the champion of the being you are.

If you seek tranquillity, do less." Or (more accurately) do what's essential—what the logos of a social being requires, and in the requisite way. Which brings a double satisfaction: to do less, better.

Three things there be in all, which thou doest consist of; thy body, thy life, and thy mind.

it is only this present, a moment of time, that a man lives: all the rest either has been lived or may never be.

Rather than imagining God as a personlike being "out there," this concept imagines God as the encompassing Spirit in whom everything that is, is. The universe is not separate from God, but in God. Indeed, this is the meaning of the Greek roots of the word "panentheism": pan means "everything," en means "in," and theism comes from the Greek word for "God," theos.

Because our socialization intrinsically leads to that kind of self-preoccupation, with how well the self is doing, the path of release and liberation from that self-preoccupation intrinsically involves dying to that way of being and being born to a life that is centered in the spirit, or in what William James in his wonderfully generic term for God called "the more.

God is the one in whom "we live and move and have our being."6 Notice how the language works. Where are we in relation to God? We are in God; we live in God, move in God, have our being in God. God is not "out there," but "right here," all around us.

I exist in two places, here and where you are.

He needed to exist only in the present, without guilt, without expectation.

If you told me when I was a teen that I would end up being a teacher, I would have said you're out of your mind, because quite frankly I hated school.

Overcome space, and all we have left is Here. Overcome time, and all we have left is Now.

I don't have a past. I have a continuous present. The past is part of the present, just as the future is. We exist in time.

Being and time determine each other reciprocally, but in such a manner that neither can the former - Being - be addressed as something temporal nor can the latter - time - be addressed as a being.

If we pay no attention to it, time does not exist.

The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.

Ask yourself: Where am I? Answer: Here. Ask yourself: What time is it? Answer: Now. Say it until you can hear it.

When we do not expect anything we can be ourselves. That is our way, to live fully in each moment of time.

The more you are focused on time-past and future-the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is.

Yes, there were times when I forgot not only who I was but that I was, forgot to be.

I'd woken up early, and I took a long time getting ready to exist.

Accept the present moment and find the perfection that is deeper than any form and untouched by time.