Quotes About Being

Our true nature is the nature of no birth and no death. Only when we touch our true nature can we transcend the fear of non-being, the fear of annihilation. An American friend, whose name is Elly Kleinman, said to me Nothing is born, nothing dies. Although he did not practice as a Buddhist but as a company owner, he found the same truth the Buddha discovered.

If you think while you walk, you're not really walking.

Don't ask me anything more. My essence is wordless.

When people say, "Don't just sit there, do something," they're urging you to act. But if the quality of your being is poor—if you don't have enough peace, understanding, and equanimity, if you still have a lot of anger and worries—then your actions will also be poor.

The present moment contains the whole of life.

We have to be in the present time, because only the present is real, only in the present can we be alive. We do not practice for the sake of the future, to be reborn in a paradise, but to be peace, to be compassion, to be joy right now.

Everyone is breathing, but not everyone is aware that they're breathing.

As a free person I can always come and go, Not caught in ideas of is and is not. Not caught in ideas of being and non-being Let your steps be leisurely.

We practice so that each moment of our life becomes real life. And, therefore, when we meditate, we sit for sitting; we don't sit for something else.

If we practice walking meditation, we walk just for walking, not to arrive.

Meditation is offering your genuine presence to yourself in every moment.

The ground for action is to be. Walk, sit, and eat in such a way that peace is possible in the here and the now.

The deepest way in which we are right or wrong," he continued, "is in our way of being toward others. I can be right on the surface—in my behavior or positions—while being entirely mistaken beneath, in my way of being.

You can multiply your possibilities, enlarge and increase them... When one discovers one's psychic being within, at the same time there develop and manifest, quite unexpectedly, things one could not do at all before and which one didn't think were in one's nature. MCW, vol. 9, Questions and Answers 1957-1958, p.396

Ich spreche nicht gern vom Tod, ich bin für Leben.

Each of us is meant to come face to face with the depths of our being and awaken to our greatest fulfillment: becoming conscious children of the universe, incarnating the unconditional love that created us all.

The wave does not need to die to become water. She is already water.

The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if we do not go back to ourselves in the present moment, we cannot be in touch with life.

The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green earth, dwelling deeply in the present moment and feeling truly alive.

If we are not fully ourselves, truly in the present moment, we miss everything.

Breathing in, there is only the present moment. Breathing out, it is a wonderful moment.

Only the present moment contains life.

Your true home is in the here and the now.

What you are looking for is already in you...You already are everything you are seeking.