Quotes About Being

It is not matter that creates an illusion of consciousness, but consciousness that creates an illusion of matter.

Et toi, Grand-mère, comment vas-tu ? - Moi ? J'existe. C'est déjà une occupation de chaque instant.

There is no life without consciousness; there is no consciousness without life.

For he who is love is God; he whose whole being is love is the image of the Supreme; in himself he reproduces the divinity, for Love is God and God is Love.

remember who you really are: a spiritual being having a deeply personal, human experience.

So, was the crime lab a reward for almost being killed?' 'No, it was a reward for not being Bryce,

All created beings are unmanifest in their beginning, manifest in their interim state, and unmanifest again when they are annihilated. So what need is there for lamentation

Meditation is nothing but coming to terms with your inner emptiness: recognizing it, not escaping; living through it, not escaping; being through it, not escaping. Then suddenly the emptiness becomes the fullness of life.

Meditation is neither of the body nor of the mind, but belongs to the third within you—your being.

Mind is a door that leads you outside in the world; meditation is the door that leads you to your interiority—to the very innermost shrine of your being.

Just to be and not be a person is the whole art of meditation, the whole art of inner ecstasy.

The very essence of meditation is to be so silent that there is no stirring of thoughts in you, that words don't come between you and reality, that the whole net of words falls down, that you are left alone. This aloneness, this purity, this unclouded sky of your being is meditation.

Sevginin, kurman?n, yapman?n, sözü de?il, kendisi gerek; ya?anmas? gerek bunlar?n...

There isn't a single motivation, thought, act, or word that has slipped out of your being and escaped the full, undivided attention of God.

There are times when I can almost feel myself simply being.

There's only now.

By staying focused on what I intend to create, by believing that the universe is all-providing, and by knowing that I'm worthy of the unlimited beneficence of the Source of being, I just keep attracting prosperity to me.

Well, the idea of God as a supreme being means that he is simply like us, writ large, and just bigger and better, the end product of the series; whereas this divine personality that we meet in the Bible was, for centuries, regarded simply as a symbol of a greater transcendence that lay beyond it.

Before catechisms can instill a proper humility, small children know the truth that their own existence has caused the world to bloom into being.

Is it the sheer nature of the beast within, the human animal inside the Human Being?

What the sacred grove was missing was a population. Not of gods, but of the ambassadors of gods. Those who, through need, call the deities into being. The

there is no Future-Gretchen, only Now-Gretchen.

everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are

Where we are right now has nothing to do with human time. The word now is meaningless. What we call a year is a tiny framework in a huge sea of time. We are engulfed." I lifted my arms. No words came, only images of the Japanese gardens I had once visited: Saih?-ji, Kinkaku-ji, Ry?an-ji. But this place was the font. The whole world was this, embedded in this, had issued from this. It was a place where, as D?gen said, being and nonbeing are rolled together