Quotes About Being

To live in the realm of Buddha nature means to die as a small being, moment after moment.

You see something or hear a sound, and there you have everything just as it is. [...] Whatever you do, it should be an expression of the same deep activity. We should appreciate what we are doing. There is no preparation for something else.

When we do not expect anything we can be ourselves.

Because you are already there [in this world], you can appear in the world. Also, it is not possible for something to vanish which does not exist. Because something is there, something can vanish... But even though you vanish, something which is existent cannot be non-existent. That is the magic.

Movement is nothing but the quality of our being.

What we call "I" is just a swinging door which moves when we inhale and when we exhale. It just moves; that is all. When your mind is pure and calm enough to follow this movement, there is nothing: no "I," no world, no mind nor body; just a swinging door.

Doing something is expressing our own nature. We do not exist for the sake of something else. We exist for the sake of ourselves.

When we express our true nature, we are human beings.

When you do something, if you fix your mind on the activity with some confidence, the quality of your state of mind is the activity itself. When you are concentrated on the quality of your being, you are prepared to the activity.

There is a certain part of all of us that lives outside of time

I don't go birdwatching. I am birdwatching. Birdwatching is a state of being, not an activity. It doesn't depend on place, on equipment, on specific purpose, like, say, fishing. It is not a matter of organic trainspotting; it is about life and it is about living.

Nature is not horrible. Nature is not wonderful. Nature is not cruel. Nature is not beautiful. Nature only is.

I can, therefore I am.

Such contentment is never the result of the momentary decision of the will. It cannot be produced merely by having a well-ordered and thought-through time- and life-management plan calculated to guard us against unexpected twists of divine providence. No, true contentment means embracing the Lord's will in every aspect of His providence simply because it is His providence. It involves what we are in our very being, not just what we do and can accomplish.

There are two insults no human being will endure that he has no sense of humor, and that the has never known trouble.

There are two insults which no human being will endure: The assertion that he hasn't a sense of humor, and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.

NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.

Stop searching, just be where you need to be."

Again, I don't fully understand my emotion response to the library or trust it. It was the site of a series of intellectual revelations that were crucial to me, not just as a student but as a human being.

Without being and remaining oneself, there is no love.

For certainly there cannot be a higher pleasure than to think that we love and are beloved by the most amiable and best Being.

The infinite being has assumed unto himself the mystery of finitude. And in him who is love the finite and the infinite are made one.

No being incapable of controlling their own mind or developing ethics and a loving character can ever be a Master. First we must have accomplishment.

We are all given a gift of existence and of being sentient beings, and I think true happiness lies in love and compassion.