Quotes About Being

Happiness is not a state of mind but a way of being, "an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue.

In the middle of the afternoon, when the heat was at its worst, having accumulated around the concrete since early in the morning, I had ten minutes or so of respite in my tiny office. The walls there were blistering. I could scarcely breathe. But I fled there as if it had been a cool, wet, autumn day inside. I was not looking for relief from the heat so much as relief from the crowds. They licked away my being with their idiot tongues.

Inside each one of us there is a mostly hidden, mostly golden, mostly eternal image or aspect of being, similar to the gold that is buried in the earth. We are the earthlings, the children of the earth, and therefore we are a replica, in a sense, of the earth itself. One of the ideas that is important is: As above, so below. As outside, so within.

The real treasure of life, the one difficult to find and hard to attain, is never far from us. That's an unwritten rule on this earth. What we desperately desire and need most is buried in the recesses of our innermost being all along. This is the open secret found in many traditions and told in many ways. Yet it remains a secret because trusting in oneself remains one of the hardest things to do in life.

For there is not so complete and perfect a part that we know of nature, which does not owe the being it has, and the excellence of it, to its neighbours.

The truth doesn't lie. It's up in your face. It's in your conscience. It challenges your very being with the intention of cleaning you of sin and its influence.

The single guiding principle that I try to follow, assuming blindly that the rest will fall into place, is to operate squarely in the present. I think it's one of the most difficult things for anyone to do.

From ancient times, the core idea of the soul is the soul is the capacity to integrate different functions into a single being or into a single person. The soul is what holds us all together: what connects our will and our minds and our bodies and connects us to God.

I don't know what its like for most actors, but really clearly for myself acting has always been the fulfilment of personal fantasies. It isn't just art, its about being a person I've always wanted to be, or being in a situation, or being a hero.

Life is what happens when you're doing other things, right?

I AM! YOU ARE! AND LOVE: IS ALL: THAT MATTERS!

I don't even like the word 'relax'! If I have a partner and we make love a lot, then I'm in a very pure state of being.

Love is a way of being, not something you give. When a person is truly loving, he is love.

Love is already inside us as our true being; we do not have to make it appear.

Love is the problem of an animal who must find life, create a dialogue with nature in order to experience his own being.

The love of one sole being is a barbarism; for it will be employed to the detriment of all the rest. So too the love of God.

Love is the part of us that is real.

The source of love isn't in your self. It isn't in your experience. It's in you.

Love is not an experience. Love is what you are.

The finite human being shall never know in its fullness Truth and Love which is itself infinite.

Your real being only flowers with unconditional love. Ambition is against love. Anything that is against love is against you and your real life.

Love is not emotion, it's a way of being.

Love is what you are, not what you give or get!

For to love is to give what one is, his very being, in the most absolute, the most brazenly metaphysical, the least phenomenalizable sense of this word.