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Quotes About Being

Consciousness of a manifold of subjects lies deeper than any empirical content judged. It is inside the logical concept of judgment, inside the concept of being and truth. As you contradict me, you figure in my consciousness not as an object with determinations. You figure in my consciousness as judgment. Anything I think of you is subordinated to and informed by this conception.
~ Sebastian Rödl
Where we choose to be, where we choose to be--we have the power to determine that in our lives. We cannot reel time backward or forward, but we can take ourselves to the place that defines our being.
~ Sena Jeter Naslund
How intensely do I want to exist?
~ Sera J. Beak
The miracle of your being cannot escape itself. Your thoughts blossom into events. Your beliefs grow as surely in time and space as flowers do.
~ Seth
The purpose of creative visualization is: To connect us with our being. To help us focus and facilitate our doing. To deepen, expand, and align our having.
~ Shakti Gawain
Being is the basic experience of being alive and conscious. It is the experience we have when we're fully focused in the present moment, the experience of being totally complete and at rest within ourselves.
~ Shakti Gawain
Yoga practices shift our identity away from the ego-personality and its struggles so that we can begin to reconnect with the essential nature of our being, which is bliss.
~ Sharon Gannon
And sometimes I feel as if, already, I am not here—
~ Sharon Olds
The essential joy of being with horses is that it brings us in contact with the rare elements of grace, beauty, spirit, and fire.
~ Sharon Ralls Lemon
For all of us, love can be the natural state of our own being; naturally at peace, naturally connected, because this becomes the reflection of who we simply are.
~ Sharon Salzberg
That's the moment of enlightenment. That is the moment that you become for the first time an unconditioned, sane, really free human being.
~ Rajneesh
There is no time. There is no space. There is no condition. There is only awareness, awareness of these ideas.
~ Frederick Lenz
A long time ago a very powerful race of Indians lived here. They were from another cycle; their being was of another composition. They are still here, even now, you can see them on the mountain rims.
~ Frederick Lenz
Most beings enjoy existence so time comes into being.
~ Frederick Lenz
We cut up time and space and mind and place and being and non-being. We create a world of ideas. This is duality, pairs of apparent opposites.
~ Frederick Lenz
This light unglues the formation and structure of the being for a certain period of time. It will reassemble automatically.
~ Frederick Lenz
Karma simply means that whatever type of energy you project, or you allow to pass through your being, you will become for a period of time.
~ Frederick Lenz
Doing a show is very similar to what meditation is supposed to be: being there and being present in that space and time.
~ Gift of Gab
I'm trying to be present, not thinking and worrying about the past or the future. That's such a waste of time, you know?
~ Gwen Stefani
I'm me, and at the same time not me. That's what it felt like. A very still, quiet feeling.
~ Haruki Murakami
Time doesn't seem to pass here: it just is.
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
Don't get caught in "Waiting". When I 'Get This' then I will be able to fully 'Live'. Escape the time dominant mind by fully being here 'NOW'.
~ Matthew Donnelly
The past is a ghost, the future a dream and all we ever have is now.
~ Bill Cosby
Not the intense momentIsolated, with no before and after, But a lifetime burning in every moment.
~ T.S. Eliot