Quotes About Being

Nel vivere non c'è alcuna felicità. Vivere: portare il proprio io dolente per il mondo. Ma essere, Essere è felicità. Essere: trasformarsi in una fontana, in una vasca di pietra, nella quale l'universo cade come una tiepida pioggia.

O drama de uma vida pode sempre ser explicado pela metáfora do peso. Dizemos que temos um fardo sobre os ombros. Carregamos esse fardo, que suportamos ou não. Lutamos com ele, perdemos ou ganhamos. O que precisamente aconteceu com Sabina? nada. Deixara um homem porque quis deixá-lo. Ele a perseguira depois disso? Quis vingar-se? Não. Seu drama não era de peso, mais de leveza. O que se abatera sobre ela não era um fardo, mas a insustentável leveza do ser.

Living, there is no happiness in that. Living: carrying one's painful self through the world. But being, being is happiness. Being: becoming a fountain, a fountain on which the universe falls like warm rain.

Living, there is no happiness in that. Living: carrying one's painful self through the world. But being, being is happiness. Being: Becoming a fountain, a fountain on which the universe falls like warm rain. ? Milan Kundera, Immortality (Gardners Books; 1st edition, July 31, 2000) Originally published January 12th 1990.

Lo que de la vida es insoportable, no es ser, sino ser su yo

Non potrei mai dire con totale convinzione: L'uomo è un essere meraviglioso e voglio riprodurlo.

what HAD come over her? Nothing. She had left a man because she felt like leaving him. Had he persecuted her? Tried to take revenge on her? No. Her drama was a drama not of heaviness but of lightness. What fell to her lot was not the burden but the unbearable lightness of being.

The reality is that you are the spirit. The rest is a myth.

The love of the gods belongs to anyone who has given to true virtue and nourished it, and if any human being could become immortal, it would be he.

The darkness is the deepening shadow of your presence; the silence a process in the metabolism of the being of love.

Love means the art of being with others. Meditation means the art of being with yourself. Both are two aspects of the same coin.

And then the witness, if you go down into the witness, that has the spiritual being. Down there, in your soul, you'll get far more love than you ever got out there.

Love emerges at the point of a lacking word, and one offers one's being to fill the lack.

Love is not a thing to understand. Love is not a thing to feel. Love is not a thing to give and receive. Love is a thing only to become and eternally Be.

Love resembles a tree: it bends under its own weight, deeply rooted in our being and sometimes turns green in the ruins of a heart.

Say what you will to the force that governs the universe. Perhaps we'll call it into being, and it will yet love us as we love it.

You can't realise love or yourself until you are still enough to drop down through the restlessness and frustrations into that deeper level of your being

Change isn't always easy, but with purposeful practice, any old habit can be replaced with a way of being we would recommend to those we love.

love isnt mortal or immortal. it just is

Love and compassion ... are the ultimate source of human happiness, and the need for them lies at the very core of our being.

If there isn't an emanation of love and joy, complete presence and openness toward all beings, then it is not enlightenment.

Love is not a mood, but a dynamic way of being.

In love we listen. We listen to what others say. We listen to what our own being is telling us about the nature of existence.

It's me being me making you be you...