Quotes About Being

Any act without the fragrance of Being is lost.

We can bring quality into the details of life if we remember to be and act with precision. If we can consciously be at that point where the horizontal force of active choice meets the vertical force of Being, a certain "something", larger than life, will be activated. This "something" can be felt in anything produced by the hands and hearts of a conscious human being – in works of art, in a well-tended garden, in food prepared with love.

The knowing heart is receptive to the intelligence of Being and is guided by Being. When the heart is awakened and purified, it establishes a connection to Spirit; our finest and noblest capacities are unlocked, our sacred humanness is revealed. What it comes down to, the distillation of all wisdoms, is this: we can rejoin our isolated wills with Love's Will through the knowing of the heart.

Love is the motivation behind every yearning. In all of life, Love is seeking to discover itself. We come into this world, and we experience a profound forgetfulness; we are asleep. Everything that happens from then on is the process of waking up to the fact that Love brought us here, that we are loved by a Beneficent Unseen Reality, and that the core of our being is Love. The whole purpose and meaning of creation is to discover the secret of Love.

The mirror of pure awareness is obscured by layers of emotional and mental conditioning. Just as polishing transforms a mineral or stone into a reflective object, regularly wiping clean the mirror of awareness will allow a human being to reflect the light of Being itself. The spiritual process can be understood as learning to consciously reflect more and more of this Being. If we would clear the inner mirror, the light of Being would be reflected outwardly, pouring out of our eyes. (p. 100)

The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.

Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.

You hold in your hands my heart, my soul, and my very being. You are already the Queen of my heart, my love, my true love, my only love."- Kian, Frost Kisses

In our spiritual vision we are not only to see each thing in sharp relief, standing out in all the brilliance of its specific being, but we are also to see each thing as transparent: in and through each created thing we are to discern the Creator.

is not the supposition that something might be true, but the assurance that someone is there.

When you can be this, why are you ever anything else? - Broken Verses

If there is one truth that I have learned, it is that unless you find it inside of Today, you will never find it inside of Tomorrow.

iphone therefore I am.

You chose to live here now. You should try to live in the present.

soy un fue y un será y un es cansado...

But did it ever occur to you, my friend, that force and matter are merely the barriers to perception imposed by time and space? When one knows, as I do, that time and space are identical and that they are both deceptive because they are merely imperfect manifestations of a higher reality, one no longer seeks in the visible world for an explanation of the mystery and terror of being.

For all spaceless beings the word WHERE has one meaning; a spaceless being is WHERE IT OPERATES, IT IS IN THE THINGS WHICH RECEIVE THE EFFECTS OF ITS POWER.

Witches don't look like anything. Witches are. Witches do.

I am not a prisoner of history. I should not seek there for the meaning of my destiny. I should constantly remind myself that the real leap consists in introducing invention into existence. In the world through which I travel, I am endlessly creating myself. I am a part of Being to the degree that I go beyond it.

This passage indicates the step that Feuerbach has taken from idealism to materialism. He formulates the new thesis with a precision that points forward to Marx, when he says that it is not thought which determines being but, on the contrary, social being which determines the consciousness of men.

The majority con- sensus, however, reached eventually was again expressed clearly and forcefully by al-Ghazzâlî: "The knowledge about (ma- rifah) God is the end of every cognition (ma- rifah) and the fruit of every knowledge (or science, - ilm) according to all schools of thought." There is no true knowledge of God for man, but human knowledge can achieve some realization of His being.

Just existing is where a lot of living happens.

It's not the honors and the prizes and the fancy outsides of life which ultimately nourish our souls. It's the knowing that we can be trusted, that we never have to fear the truth, that the bedrock of our very being is good stuff.

Art is neither a profession nor a hobby. Art is a Way of being.