Quotes About Being

A sociopath is just a label and doesn't encompass the entire being of a person.

You're not a combination of all your labels. You just are.

Seeking a balance between doing and being is complex. But as my friend Lisa Whelchel reminds me, we're human beings, not human doings. Perhaps it's best, then, to err on the side of less doing and more being, to spend time in thankful quiet each day before racing and chasing in this hurried and harried culture of ours.

Your life is your practice. Your spiritual practice does not occur someplace other than in your life right now, and your life is nowhere other than where you are. You are looking for answers, insight, and wisdom that you already possess. Live the life in front of you, be the life you are, and see what you find out for yourself.

Love knows no right or wrong. Love is. Only is.

Unrest of spirit is a mark of life.

The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect alone. That which is receptive in us and that which impinges upon us from history is the reality of man's being, unfolding itself in thought.

To philosophize is to learn to die – philosophizing is a soaring up to the Godhead – the knowledge of Being as Being. "Philosophy and Science", World Review Magazine (March 1950).

It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness.

That prisoner of society's world, That sacrifice to vanity, The blind slave of custom, That small-souled being isn't you.

Life wasn't about becoming, was it? It was about being.

Care flows naturally if the "self" is widened and deepened so that protection of free Nature is felt and conceived as protection of ourselves…Just as we need no morals to make us breathe…[so] if your "self" in the wide sense embraces another being, you need no moral exhortation to show care…You care for yourself without feeling any moral pressure to do it.

If I was the only one I wouldn't be littler or bigger, would I? I'd be just me, wouldn't I?

For all her few years, I saw her then as I see her now, the sanest, the most uncluttered and the most direct of beings. Her ability to ignore the excesses of information, dismiss the useless frill and uncover the heart of things was truly magical.

Life is real only then, when "I am".

Essence is the truth in man; personality is the false.

how there are never crystallized in them any subjective being-convictions formed by their own logical deliberations—as in general is proper to three-brained beings—but instead, only those convictions are crystallized that depend exclusively upon the opinions of others.

And the second reason is that the terrestrial being who made these experiments, thanks to the knowledge of cosmic vibrations he had acquired, was the sole and unique being who, during the many centuries that I existed upon the Earth, recognized and came to know my true nature.

un engourdissement nébuleux saisit notre pensée, et nous ne pouvons déterminer l'instant précis où le moi, sous une autre forme, continue l'œuvre de l'existence.

The stream of love breaks down Fluid lightning The flash of vibrating being But also the flash of darkness The light of Beatrice's eyes, their lightning flash How am I to understand this? How to understand unknowing That I do not!

It is enough to be, nothing more is needed." The

Energy moves in waves. Waves move in patterns. Patterns move in rhythms. A human being is just that, energy, waves, patterns, rhythms. Nothing more. Nothing less. A dance.

this is the truth of any game—it can only exist at the moment that it is being played. It's the same with being an actor. In the end, all we can ever know is the game that was played, in the only world that we know.

Trust yourself. At the root, at the core, there is pure sanity, pure openness. Don't trust what you have been taught, what you think, what you believe, what you hope. Deeper than that, trust the silence of your being.