Quotes About Being

Being alive, if you had to define it, meant emitting a variety of smells

No matter what they wish for, no matter how far they go, people can never be anything but themselves

Without a true self, a person can not go on living. It is like the ground we stand on. Without the ground, we can build nothing.

With my own hands, I had to construct this thing I called 'I' –or, rather, make the things that constituted me.

One by one, with my own hands, I had to make this thing I called 'I'-- or, rather, make the things that constituted me.

Eternity will not be nor has it been, it is. Spirit is the we that is I or the I that is we.

Die Wahrheit des Seins ist Wesen

It gives time, we are not dealing with statements that are always fixed in the sentence structure of the subject-predicate relation. And yet, how else are we to bring the It into view which we say when we say It gives Being, It gives time? Simply by think-' ing the It in the light ofthe kind ofgiving that belongs to it: giving as destiny, giving as an opening up which reaches out. Both belong together, inasmuch as the former, destiny, lies in the latter, extending opening up

destined to founder in the ennui of a nothingness of insignificance that incubates this abandonment of Being that is proper to beings.

Immersing ourselves in art and the immeasurable through being allows us a more truthful experience of the world.

Es kann sein, daß wir dann eines Tages aus unserer Alltäglichkeit herausrücken und in die Macht der Dichtung einrücken müssen, daß wir nie mehr so in die Alltäglichkeit zurückkehren, wie wir sie verlassen haben.

the more concretely I am in the world, the more genuine the existence of deception.

The Purpose of Life is Life itself it

If historicism were consistent, it would have to concede the right of history to every historical being, and therefore it must not stick anywhere, precisely because it should stick everywhere. As a world view, it makes the lack of principles a principle....

I feel that 'The Great Failure' is really a book written out of great love and a willingness to face all of who a human being is.

I'm an honorable human being. I know what to do and what not to do, and if I'm wrong, I always apologize. I'm a big enough man to do that.

A new kind of mind thus beings to come into being which is based on the development of a common meaning that is constantly transforming in the process of the dialogue.

Secrecy is thus, so to speak, a transition stadium between being and not-being.

I've always thought of wholeness and integration as necessary myths. We're fragmented beings who cement ourselves together, but there are always cracks. Living with the cracks is part of being, well, reasonably healthy

It is not true that you feel something when you are in an accident. There is no feeling, no thought. You do and you do not exist, like a particle of dust swirling in the air. You see the blue sky and you are part of it, you are a part of the air, the water, the greenery in the park. You drift in a silence where you cannot even hear the beating of your own heart. Isn't that the experience of nothingness?

On peut non seulement ce qu'on a, mais aussi ce que l'on est.

The past is the past, the future not yet risen, and even the present thought, as we experience it, becomes the past. The only thing we really have is nowness, is now.

the purpose of life on earth is to achieve union with our fundamental, enlightened nature. The "task" for which the "king" has sent us into this strange, dark country is to realize and embody our true being.

The only thing we really have is nowness, is now.