Quotes About Being

Life is not a mere exterior movement, the movement of the being in its relations to other beings, but it is also, and especially, an internal movement from the visible to the invisible, from the real to the ideal, from the finite to the infinite.

Personality is, in fact, only a free being emphasizing and recognizing itself as such. Every man makes his own personality, he is to that extent his own creator.

And as we perceive that virtue assumes a multitude of diverse forms, this variety discovered in intelligent beings convinces us that the most perfect Being is He who unites in Himself the greatest number, or the sum total, of all these perfections.

The free creature can alone say of itself "I am." In a word, the free creature is the only one with veritable being.

To create is to love, to will the creature for itself. The creature is therefore willed as its own end. God wills that the creature should be. He wills it in the interest of the creature. He wills its good, and its good consists in the realization of its being.

Sometimes I love thee so I wish thee dead. I would devour thy being as my bread; Would drain thy hidden veins dry, as of wine, Red drop by drop, for all my heart has bled!

I'm not teaching you anything you don't already know somewhere deep within your being. Your genetic systems are encoded with this knowledge. My role is to awaken you to what you have simply forgotten along the way.

whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived

By that which is self-caused , I mean that of which the essence involves existence, or that of which the nature is only conceivable as existent.

Even more, in the created thing, is a perfection that she exists; since the greatest of all imperfections is, not to exist.

By substance, I mean that which is in itself, and is conceived through itself: in

Do not think like a human. You have the ability within you to create anything you wish. Truth is, you are all highly powerful entities walking this planet, disguised as simple biological beings & the disguise fools everyone -- even yourself.

A path is not something you're on. A path is what you are.

Love expresses a need for sacrifice each unity must lose itself in some other which exceeds it. In erotic frenzy the being is led to tear itself apart and lose itself.... Two beings are lost in a convulsion that binds them together. But they only communicate when losing a part of themselves. Communication ties them together with wounds, where their unity and integrity dissipate in fever.

If you are not living this moment, you are not really living.

Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.

Recognition of function always precedes recognition of being.

Whatever is referred to must exist. Let us call this the axiom of existence.

I'm a 'Power of Now' kind of guy, always have been. I don't really hang on to a lot of pictures. I have pictures of my daughters.

It's not a hard job to be yourself.

No, I've never had any interest in coaching, probably because I hated being told what to do when I was a player so I wouldn't like to be lecturing others now.

I enjoy the challenge of being a head coach.

It's great to be here. It's great to be anywhere.

I am here and I'm alive. That's enough.