Quotes About Being

Man has two necessary fundamental characteristics, the instinct of his own preservation, without which no being could exist, and the instinct of the preservation of his species, without which no species could have been formed or have continued to exist.

Briefly summarising, we can express the proposed law thus: consciousness is bound up with learning in organic substance; organic competence is unconscious. Still more briefly, and put in a form which is admittedly rather obscure and open to misunderstanding: Becoming is conscious, being unconscious.

Becoming is conscious, being unconscious.

But when you make action the cornerstone of your Creative Process without considering the vibrational basis of your Being as you are taking the action, you are working under a distinct handicap, for there simply is not enough power in the action itself to compensate for the competing Energies of your misaligned thought.

All is being received by choice. We see the power of influence from others as a tremendous hindrance to your own individual creative thinking. Every being who receives anything, does so by his own choosing. The information that is offered is not being thrust upon you. You are making the decision whether to receive it -- or whether not to receive it.

Dear soul, am I only because I have been?

When we are mindful, we experience our social presence as a series of momentary connections with one other being. These moments of interpersonal connection are like the Lego building blocks of our social awareness. The

Even if it's just a tiny flicker of awkwardness, there will always be fear, every moment, as long as there are beings who live in a network of change and interdependence. To be a being inherently implies change and interdependence ; these are the true brands of our existence. Getting connected necessarily means experiencing fear.

So let this be the aim of the meditation: to turn one's innermost being into a vast empty plain, with none of that treacherous undergrowth to impede the view. So that something of 'God' can enter you, and something of 'Love', too.

I enter a room now not wondering what I am going to do or say, but what the risen Christ has already done, already said. I come in on a story that is in progress, something that is resurrection, already going on. Sometimes I can clarify a word, sharpen a feeling, help recover an essential piece of memory, but always dealing with what the risen Christ has already set in motion, already brought into being.

It seems to have no motive, no vendetta, no program of action, other than simply that of "being ooze.

It was incredible, this human capacity for learning, for hope, for love, that persisted like to box of light in my cell, the waters that flowed in my dreams. It was beyond my understanding. Tears came as I surrendered to this wonderment of being.

Render yourself free to choose, to be, to live, to see.

Lin-Manuel Miranda is a musical icon, and being part of any show of his is an honor.

The world is real. Consciousness is the illusion.

When you're watching a movie and find yourself getting emotional, it's because you're bringing something personal to the images. It's the same thing with acting. You're bringing the essence of your core emotional being to that moment.

What I am doing; how I am being as I am doing it; and does it bring honor to my community? What is the lesson in what I am doing? And most importantly, am I having fun?

Living in the past or living in the future - those aren't real. The moment is now, and that's where safety and comfort and all that good stuff is.

Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.

This perceiving, active being is what I call mind, spirit, soul, or myself. By which words I do not denote any one of my ideas, but a thing entirely distinct from them, wherein they exist, or, which is the same thing, whereby they are perceived; for the existence of an idea consists in being perceived.

Whenever I attempt to frame a simple idea of time, abstracted from the succession of ideas in my mind, which flows uniformly, and is participated by all beings, I am lost and embrangled in inextricable difficulties.

I might as well doubt of my own being, as of the being of those things I actually see and feel.

God is a being of transcendent and unlimited perfections: his nature therefore is incomprehensible to finite spirits.

But what is Fortune? What is Fate? The Christian knows them not: He knows a Being, good as great, Controls his earthly lot: No fabled phantom's vain caprice Assails his joy, or mars his peace.