Quotes About Being

What I am is a thinking, feeling human being compelled by history.

I think confidence is the most appealing quality in any human being or any artist; that's what really attracts us to people.

Being true to yourself really means being true to all the complexities of the human spirit.

Humanism and Divinity are as complementary to one another in theorder of culture, as are Nature and Grace in the order of being.

A single and same voice for the whole thousand-voiced multiple, a single and same Ocean for all the drops, a single clamour of Being for all beings: on condition that each being, each drop and each voice has reached the state of excess -- in other words, the difference which displaces and disguises them and, in turning upon its mobile cusp, causes them to return.

There is always another breath in my breath, another thought in my thought, another possession in what I possess, a thousand things and a thousand beings implicated in my complications: every true thought is an aggression.

Les évaluations, rapportées à leur élément, ne sont pas des valeurs, mais des manières d'être, des modes d'existence de ceux qui jugent et évaluent.

A single and the same voice for the whole thousand-voiced multiple, a single and the same ocean for all the drops, a single clamor of being for all beings: on condition that each being, each drop, and each voice has reached the state of excess - in other words, the difference which displaces and disguises them and, in turning upon its mobile cusp, causes them to return.

Cogito para un yo disuelto.

All the things that appear to the mind Are merely paintings of names and thoughts; Not even a speck of dust exists From the side of the objects themselves. Meditate again and again on this vision Of emptiness, the final nature of being.

Die Gedanken sind weder Dinge der Außenwelt noch Vorstellungen. Ein drittes Reich muß anerkannt werden. Was zu diesem gehört, stimmt mit den Vorstellungen darin überein, daß es nicht mit den Sinnen wahrgenommen werden kann, mit den Dingen aber darin, daß es keines Trägers bedarf, zu dessen Bewußtseinsinhalte es gehört.

If I eliminate everything, how will I exist?

UR-DIDACT: This being was not the Primordial I encountered on Charum Hakkor, but something else entirely—though it retained the Primordial's motives and thoughts and memories. It was a Gravemind—the Gravemind, more accurately. It was the Primordial's final act of revenge.

Jesus completely abolishes all ordinary ideas and expectations people have of a Supreme Being.

At that moment they ceased being human beings and began to be human doings.

Elphaba looked like something between an animal and an Animal, like something more than life but not quite Life.

I try to keep it real. I don't have time to worry about what I'm projecting to the world. I'm just busy being myself.

A script is utterly useless in and of itself; it's only of any worth the minute your actors, your designers, your directors come into being.

I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am.

When the mind is empty, silent, when it is in a state of complete negation - which is not blankness, nor the opposite of being positive, but a totally different state in which all thought has ceased - only then is it possible for that which is unnameable to come into being.

When modern physics exerts itself to establish the world's formula, what occurs thereby is this: the being of entities has resolved itself into the method of the totally calculable.

I don't look back. I don't look forward. I am totally now.

deep down inside, we don't seek the meaning of life, but the experience of being alive. And that's what the nature of genius is ultimately about.

You do not see anything when you experience pure consciousness; you become everything.