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Quotes About Being

We are not the Bodies that we Wear. We are the ones that Wear the Body.
~ AiR Atman in Ravi
we are not what we seem to be Truth is... We are ENERGY !
~ AiR Atman in Ravi
We think, "We are This", but in reality, "We are That"... Not the Body that we look like, but the Spirit, in fact!
~ AiR Atman in Ravi
You are not the EYE that can see. You are not the I that says,It is Me.Find out -Who is this I?
~ AiR Atman in Ravi
You may see me as the Skin, but I am the One that lives Within!
~ AiR Atman in Ravi
How many times have you tried to solve "the problem"? you'll be trying to solve it not just until you die but for many more lifetimes. Instead, understand that this world is just the play of the senses. It's the five khandhas doing their thing; it has nothing to do with you. It's just people being people, the world being the world.
~ Ajahn Brahm
There is always only one question in the ethics of truth: how will I, as some-one, continue to exceed my own being?
~ Alain Badiou
It is now an easy matter to spell out the ethic of a truth: 'Do all that you can to persevere in that which exceeds you perseverance. Persevere in the interruption. Seize in your being that which has seized and broken you.
~ Alain Badiou
While desire focuses on the other, always in a somewhat fetishist manner, on a particular object, like breasts, buttocks and cock...love focuses on the very being of the other, on the other as it has erupted, fully armed with its being, into my life thus disrupted and re-fashioned
~ Alain Badiou
I lie there for a while in the dusk, then make a decision, little knowing how it will affect every facet of my life and fiber of my being for the rest of my life: I say no to shame.
~ Alan Cumming
Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.
~ Alan Watts
We do not "come into" this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. As the ocean "waves," the universe "peoples."
~ Alan Watts
Being a thing with a central nervous system complex enough to understand the concept of being a thing with a central nervous system. Simply being. Consider all the inanimate
~ Alastair Reynolds
I don't mind being criticized. I enjoy being criticized personally, not by rumor.
~ Gil Scott-Heron
I'm really interested in photography, like every other human being.
~ Alexa Chung
My brain is so anxiety-prone, like a pinball machine. If I don't get up in the morning and focus my thinking, my breathing, and my being for about 12 minutes, I'm just a screwball all day long.
~ Rainn Wilson
When you wash your hands, when you make a cup of coffee, when you're waiting for the elevator - instead of indulging in thinking, these are all opportunities for being there as a still, alert presence.
~ Eckhart Tolle
If you have a personality, you're a person.
~ Rachel Hartman
She couldn't explain it except with the word: there . She was there. Present in herself. She wasn't always, so it was worth remarking upon.
~ Rachel Hartman
She believed that people are born every minute of their lives, and what they are in each of those minutes is what they are completely.
~ Rachel Kushner
No person lives in the future. The present, the present, the present. Life keeps on being that.
~ Rachel Kushner
There is something mankind can never destroy in spite of an unreasoning will to destruction, and this is its own idealism, that integral part of its very being.
~ Radclyffe Hall
I existed finally as the idea of temporal extension.
~ Rae Armantrout
My brain is so anxiety-prone, like a pinball machine. If I don't get up in the morning and focus my thinking, my breathing, and my being for about 12 minutes, I'm just a screwball all day long.
~ Rainn Wilson