Quotes About Being

A tree is a being that is more spiritual than material.

An oak tree is an oak tree. That is all it has to do. If an oak tree is less than an oak tree, then we are all in trouble.

Trust your Heart. Value its intuition. Choose to let go of fear, and to open to the true and you will awaken to the freedom, clarity and joy of Being

In yourself right now is all the place you've got.

Acting is also working with people who invite you into their dreams and trust you with their innermost being.

What you seek, you already are.

Let's just be fabulously where we are and who we are. You be you and I'll be me, today and today and today, and let's trust the future to tomorrow.

Infinite trust is what you are. It describes everything in the reality where you can feel your whole being. In that line between here and infinity, everything is contained.

Belief is like plastic flowers, which look like flowers from far away. Trust is real rose. It has roots, and roots go deep into your heart and into your being.

In your present-moment awareness, awaken to your innocence, your trust, your love, your eternal being.

The gift of mental power comes from God, Divine Being, and if we concentrate our minds on that truth, we become in tune with this great power. My Mother had taught me to seek all truth in the Bible.

The only truth is that I live. Sincerely, I live. Who am I? Well, that's a bit much.

The ultimate truth of who you are is not I am this or I am that, but I Am.

The only reality is in the moment. What you are doing counts.

The Light of one human being who discovers the Truth has been lighting human existence for thousands of years. Such is the power of a human being who realizes the Truth of who they are.

The ultimate truth is so simple; it is nothing more than being in one's natural, original state.

All there really is to do now, is to be in the present Moment.

The past is gone. The future never arrives. In truth, there is no life outside of this moment!

Paul Tillich has a beautiful formulation: "Language . . . has created the word 'loneliness' to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word 'solitude' to express the glory of being alone.

Teach us healing above all, soothing the center of our being. Teach us dark solitude without longing.

When practicing shikantaza, we do nothing but sit with the whole body and mind. We do nothing with the mind, so this is not actually a meditation practice. In this zazen we don't practice with a mantra or contemplate anything. We don't count or watch the breath. We don't try to concentrate the mind on any particular object or use any other meditation techniques; we really just sit with both body and mind.

But as long as you think, "I am doing this," or "I have to do this," or "I must attain something special," you are actually not doing anything... when you do not try to do anything special, then you do something. When there is no gaining idea in what you do, then you do something.

There is no connection between I myself yesterday and I myself in this moment

Moment after moment, everyone comes out from nothingness. This is the true joy of life.