Quotes About Being

that a warrior, aware of the unfathomable mystery that surrounds him and aware of his duty to try to unravel it, takes his rightful place among mysteries and regards himself as one. Consequently, for a warrior there is no end to the mystery of being, whether being means being a pebble, or an ant, or oneself. That is a warrior's humbleness. One is equal to everything.

Every warrior on the path of knowledge thinks, at one time or another, that he's learning sorcery, but all he's doing is allowing himself to be convinced of the power hidden in his being, and that he can reach it.

The Goddess is the intelligent embodied love that is in all being.

Virginia Woolf believed that 'Moments of Being' were all that counted in life.

I don't care if my love is requited or not, because being with you and the very thought of you makes me happy. The point I'm trying to make is that you are loved because I love you, Adam. Please, don't do it. Please, don't jump because I need you.

Stars are like people,.. just because they appear to emerge from the same point doesn't mean that they do. This is an illusion of perspective created by distance. Not all families manage to hold it together,..Everyone moves in different directions. That we all emerge from the same point is a misconception; to travel in different directions is the very nature of every being and every existing thing.

The mid '70s was the golden age. A lot of things were being born on the street then, and there was a lot of experimentation.

Life is life, and you've got to be mindful of that.

I'm up in Minneapolis all the time. I love being up there.

Thus we are sucked away into the future—and we are incapable of actually living one minute of life.

The past no longer is, the future is not yet here; there is only one moment in which life is available, and that is the present moment.

The Buddha said, "The past no longer exists, and the future is not yet here." There is only a single moment in which we can truly be alive, and that is the present moment

Sit in order to sit. Stand in order to stand. There is no goal or aim in sitting.

Our quality of being determines our quality of doing. (Thay).

I think (too much), therefore I am (not there to live my life).

You don't have to run anywhere to become someone else

Fear is born from our ignorance, from our concepts regarding life, death, being, and nonbeing. If we are able to get rig of all these concepts by touching the reality within ourselves, then nonfear will be there and the greatest relief will become possible.

Buddha said, "The past no longer exists, and the future is not yet here." There is only a single moment in which we can truly be alive, and that is the present moment. Being present in the here and now is our practice.

Allow yourself to sink deeply into the here and the now, because life is possible only in the present, life is available only in the present moment, and you know that you have the capacity to touch life in the present moment, in the here and the now.

Emptiness is not the opposite of existence. It is not nothingness or annihilation.

If you know your true nature of no coming, no going; no being, no nonbeing; no birth, no death, then you will have no fear and can dwell in the ultimate dimension, nirvana, right here and now. You don't have to die in order to reach nirvana. When you dwell in your true nature, you are already dwelling in nirvana. We have our historical dimension but we also have our ultimate dimension, just as the Buddha does.

Remember the words of the Buddha, "The past no longer exists, and the future is not here yet." The only moment in which you can be truly alive is the present moment. The present moment is the destination, the point to arrive at. Every time you breathe in and take a step, you arrive: "Breathing in, I arrive. Breathing out, I arrive.

Vive el momento presente. Sólo el presente es la vida. No te apegues al futuro.

Como decía el Buda: «El pasado ya se ha ido y el futuro todavía no ha llegado. Solo existe un momento en el que podemos acceder a la vida y ese momento es el presente».