Quotes About Being

The living moment is everything.

Talk about it only enough to do it. Dream about it only enough to feel it. Think about it only enough to understand it. Contemplate it only enough to be it.

Where are you? Here What time is it? Now What are you? This moment.

Time is not a line, but a series of now-points.

The soul is created in a place between Time and Eternity: with its highest powers it touches Eternity, with its lower Time.

There was a time when He was not.

Time is a kind of river, an irresistible flood sweeping up men and events and carrying them headlong, one after the other, to the great sea of being.

In reality, time and space exist in you. You do not exist in them.

I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.

Past, present and future are not amenities of language. Time unfolds into the seamsof being. It passes through you, making and shaping.

History is the only science enjoying the ambiguous fortune of being required to be at the same time an art.

Why so? one would think at such a time you would most exult in your privilege of being able to imitate the various brilliant and delightful touches of nature.

Und dann schlafe ich mit dem verrückten Gefühl ein, anders sein zu wollen als zu sein oder anders zu sein als zu wollen oder vielleicht auch anders zu tun als zu wollen oder zu sein.

I was reminded of the Four Immutable Laws of the Spirit: Whoever is present are the right people. Whenever it begins is the right time. Whatever happens is the only thing that could have happened. And when it's over, it's over.

our bodies surround what has always been there

The desire forcontinuity of being-loved-alone seems to me the error bred in the bone of man. For there is no one-and-only, as a friend of mine once said in a similar discussion, there are just one-and-only moments.

She could understand being so in love it robbed you of your balance, your judgment of good and evil, but she could not make the leap to acting out the passion or the violence as Elissa had. There was nothing worth winning at the cost of your own being, the soul, the integrity that was the core of who you were. The act of doing such a thing made it impossible for you to hold the good, even if you could grasp it for an instant.

When a being reveals his pain in such a torrent, you are bound to respect the whole of the tragedy.

You are on the threshold of a great journey, and you must begin to think in terms of what you can do as a powerful spiritual and biological being. Stop with the self-loathing. Stop with imagery of 'the damned' this and 'the damned' that! We are not damned. We never were.

You are on the threshold of a great journey, and you must begin to think in terms of what you can do as a powerful spiritual and biological being. Stop with the self-loathing. Stop with imagery of 'the damned' this and 'the damned' that! We are not damned. We never were. Who under the sun has the right to damn any living breathing creature?

Alas, my being the James Bond of vampires isn't the whole issue. Vanity must wait.

I love; therefore I am.

I want to be read. I want to be valued. That is perhaps the only shot at immortality a human being can have.

Everything that is conscious, aware of itself, has a soul.