Quotes About Being

Life can be found only in the present moment; because the past no long is and the future has not yet come.

Eternal life, according to some theologians, for example, Dean Inge, does not mean existence throughout every moment of future time, but a mode of being wholly independent of time, in which there is no before and after, and therefore no logical possibility of change.

it is flattering to suppose that the universe is controlled by a Being who shares our taste and prejudices.

The world of being is unchangeable, rigid, exact, delightful to the mathematician, the logician, the builder of metaphysical systems, and all who love perfection, more than life. The world of existence is fleeting, vague, without sharp boundaries, without any clear plan or arrangement, but it contains all thoughts and feelings, all the data of sense, and all physical objects, everything that can do either good or harm, everything that makes any difference to the value of life and the world.

I don't if I can handle not being on the sideline and being part of a team trying to win a football game on Friday nights.

Every being has the need not only to be but to affirm his own being. This is especially significant for the human organism, for it is gifted with, or condemned to, self-consciousness.

I had written lyrics to a song called The Silent Extreme, which Alex later renamed Humans Being.

My feeling is that if a human being can coax life to build bonds between silicon and carbon, nature can do it too.

What am I? Do I know? I am a man: quite simply, a 'breather.'

To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one's being added to that being.

Peace is more than just having a good night's sleep—although many people would think even that to be a miracle—but it is peace in every part of your being all the time. It is a place you live because of the One who lives in you.

Embodiment means we no longer say, I had this experience; we say, I am this experience.

the feminine journey is a story unfolding, and its epiphanies come through real things, through tangibles like walking sticks and dreams and deer antlers--all of which we might miss without taking time and space in Deep Being.

The road of 'God alone' struck me with unsettling fear. So I lingered in a kind of limbo. Unable to go back, unable to go on. Uncertain. Tentative. How strange that we tend to stand ankle-deep in the spiritual life even though the grounding depth of intimacy with God is the most nourishing experience of our lives and affirms our very being!

And I am she whose God is magnificent . . . I am being I am she who is nothing . . . I am the coming together and the falling apart I am the enduring and the disintegration . . . I am what everyone can hear and no one can say I sang on and on, and when the hymn was ended, I walked slowly back to my place.

Every human being who loves another loves imperfection, for there is no perfect being on this earth--nothing is so simple as that.

the end of Rilke's Duino Elegies: Once for each thing. Just once; no more. And we too, just once. And never again. But to have been this once, completely, even if only once: to have been at one with the earth, seems beyond undoing.

Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcendence. Some people think of reading only as a kind of escape: an escape from the "real" everyday world to an imaginary world, the world of books. Books are much more. They are a way of being fully human.

It's a thing I am, not a thing I do. I can't stop being it.

The tendency is always strong to believe that whatever receives a name must be an entity or being, having an independent existence of its own. John Stuart Mill, 1869

What is the difference between being not yet born and having lived, being now dead?

La gente piensa demasiado. Siempre consideran un montón de escenarios diferentes, dentro de diez años, dentro de veinte años, el cielo, el infierno, las consecuencias [...]. Pero lo importante, lo real es el aquí. El ahora. El instante preciso. No hay nada más, no existe ningún instante más allá del ahora mismo.

es precisamente esa ausencia de interés por la verdad –esa indiferencia ante el modo de ser de las cosas– lo que yo considero la esencia de la charlatanería." (Frankfurt, 2006: 44.).

He had put so much space behind him that he had finally reached that place at which the past was indeed another country, the future was unimportant, only today existed, and even today merely unfolded, minute by minute.