Quotes About Being

Methinks that what they call my shadow here on earth is my true substance.

Yes, there is death in this business of whaling—a speechlessly quick chaotic bundling of a man into Eternity. But what then? Methinks we have hugely mistaken this matter of Life and Death. Methinks that what they call my shadow here on earth is my true substance. Methinks that in looking at things spiritual, we are too much like oysters observing the sun through the water, and thinking that thick water the thinnest of air. Methinks my body is but the lees of my better being.

There exists only the present instant... a Now which always and without end is itself new. There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow, but only Now, as it was a thousand years ago and as it will be a thousand years hence.

The moment is everything. Don't think about tomorrow; don't think about yesterday: think about exactly what you're doing right now and live it and dance it and breath it and be it.

I believe in living today. Not in yesterday, nor in tomorrow.

I am not in yesterday; I am not in tomorrow. I am right now.

Yoga puts me in a place that is a little bit less about doing and more about being, which enables me, in fact, to do more.

I'm a Yogi and a tea drinker, and having a gun is the last thing that one would expect of me as a human being.

If I don't need the money, I don't work. I'm going to spend time with my family and friends, and I'm going to travel and read and listen to music and try to learn a little bit more about how to be a human being, as opposed to learning how to be somebody else.

I think reading and travelling not only make us good artistes but also broaden our horizons and open our mind. It really helps us to become a good human being.

Every religion implies that it treats the problem of being and nonbeing, life and death. Their languages are different, but they speak about the same things.

I think that I do feel that my nature is to express what this self, this particular self at this time, experiences in the world. And that is so organic - I use this metaphor a lot but I'll use it again - it's like a pine tree producing pine cones, or a blackberry bush producing blackberries - it's just what happens with this being, now.

I've grown tremendously as an actor by being there. It is comic writing the likes of which I don't know that I'll ever see again and it's been a great, great experience.

People say that Americans trends are transient, but the one activity we never seem to tire of is being outraged. Boy, do we love it!

Knowing the Truth is not based on knowledge, but on being "it".

The truth about life will change this world into heaven and you into an immortal spiritual being.

Live in the now

Your gift is not what you do but what you really are

You are not your outer appearance, and you are not your body

Though I exist in the realms of day and night, I'm only truly alive in the moments between.

How is it that there was never youuntil there wasand then all was you?

I am not a human being but the song of the soul and dance of the spirit.

To be, is to be in love.

Love costs nothing except your state of being.