Quotes About Being

the poet speaks not only 'on the threshold of being', as Gaston Bachelard notes,43 but also on the threshold of language. Equally, the task of art and architecture in general is to reconstruct the experience of an undifferentiated interior world, in which we are not mere spectators, but to which we inseparably belong.

Knowledge is just how I am. I like to know things. I'm an inquisitive human being.

The idea of me being an icon or something is a very funny thing, just because of my own weird insecurities. But, yeah... probably because I toiled away being nothing for so long.

What's important to me is to share, and being inspired, and inspiring.

Live fully in the instant.

Acting is a state of being, and the camera can tell instantly if you're lying. But there are many different ways to approach that state of being. Each director has his own approach to the situation, and that's really interesting.

What does it mean to be human, and what is at the human heart, and is there a soul, or is that all there is? Can an artificial being be intelligent? Is 'intelligent' the definition of humanity, or is it something deeper?

What interests me is being alive and being with friends that I care about and being as creative as I can given circumstance.

Being, not Doing, is the first aim of the mystic; and hence should be the first interest of the student of mysticism.

The individual is reminded that in him, no less than in the Archetypal Universe, real life must be born if real life is to be lived.

Experiencing, rather than trying to have special experiences, is where real freedom lies.

In surrendering to our deepest fears, we put ourselves in touch with the fundamental awareness of just being—the true ground that is always available to us.

The second phase—the phase of Being Awareness—intensifies as we become less involved with "me" and more concerned with cultivating a larger sense of what life is.

The third phase—the phase of Being Kindness—has to do with learning to live from the awakened heart.

If you happen to hold that human consciousness is no more than the epiphenomenon, or secretion, of our individual brains then you are more or less trapped in your own skull. But if consciousness is open, if it can partake in a more global form of being, if it can merge with the natural world and with other beings, then, indeed, it may be possible to drop, for a time, the constraints of one's personal worldview and see reality through the eyes of others.

Die Natur schlägt im Menschen die Augen auf und bemerkt, dass sie da ist.

After a time, old pain became like a living being, with breath and self-determination.

The ring comes whenever it will because it's dark where the mountains mother and being stuck in one spot is something to ring bells about

I'd woken up early, and I took a long time getting ready to exist.

El hábito no hace al monje y el filósofo no es un título, es una forma necia de ser.

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

Man must live suspended in the moment.

Although Easter symbolizes Christ's most forceful accomplishment, it heralds the attainment of every human being who strives Godward.

The pleasure of being - a forgotten pleasure not even known to so many blind humans - that thought so sweet, that happiness so pure, "I am, I live, I exist," could bring happiness all by itself if one remembered it, if one enjoyed it, if one treasured it as befits its worth.