Quotes About Being

The 'soul' is one of the words you can use to talk about your innermost being, the essence of who you are.

The Supreme Being I would sign up for would not prove his omnipotence by saving one life while ending dozens, or hundreds, or thousands. Nor would he summon an angel to heaven by ending a first grader's life at the hands of a gunman or sadist.

I've always enjoyed the emotion of being out there in the last minute of a game or the last couple minutes down by a goal. I think a lot of guys tend to thrive in that situation and I prefer to be out there.

Through the Thou a person becomes I.

I think that being alive is intense for most beings in some way. Even the process of being born is an intense one, and coming to see and understand and experience the physical world, and all that goes along with being a physical being, and experiencing all of these different forms of loss throughout life.

Time is not a thing, thus nothing which is, and yet it remains constant in its passing away without being something temporal like the beings in time.

Imagine, for example, birds. When they look out at the world, they have a sense that they are alive. If they are in pain, they can do something about it. If they have hunger or thirst, they can satisfy that. It's this basic feeling that there is life ticking away inside of you.

You are in the moment. There is nowhere else to be. Existentially, this is the only truth. It is just that you are not available to

Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.

Man is God truly alive

Now these things never happened, but always are.

One has a soul, and one is a Spirit.

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

A miracle is 'an Effect produced contrary to the usual Coarse or Order of Nature, by the unusual Interposition of some Intelligent Being Supeiror to Men.

A miracle is an effect produced contrary to the usual course or order of nature, by the unusual interpolation of some intelligent being superior to men.

While [Shakespeare] darts himself forth and passes into all the forms of human character and passion, the one Proteus of the fire and the flood, [Milton] attracts all forms and things to himself, into the unity of his own Ideal. All things and modes of action shape themselves anew in the being of Milton; while Shakespeare becomes all things, yet for ever remaining himself.

Imagine a great net spread across the universe. Each juncture is a "being," and if we imagine that consciousness as a drop of dew, we can see that in each shining drop resides the reflection of every other drop on the net.

We believe in ourselves in this narrow, limited, egoistic sense, as identified with the body and the lower mind. We are blind to any higher vision, any more ultimate selfhood, any more universal mind or consciousness. This belief in self in this sense is a fetter that has to be broken before we can enter the Stream and break through into a higher, wider dimension of being and consciousness.

To Experience the diversity of mother nature with all five senses and allow it to evolve you as a human being is truly Travel"

Jíj bent je leven. Dus je leven is waar je bent.

writes Madeleine L'Engle, "in kairos we are completely un-self-conscious and yet paradoxically far more real than we can ever be when we are constantly checking our watches for chronological time."10

Our universe is not a 'was' or a 'will be' system. It is an 'is' system vibrating within the 'now' measurement of time.

Today is the only time we can possibly live.

To be identified with your mind is to be trapped in time: the compulsion to live almost exclusively through memory and anticipation.