Quotes About Being

Man's being is the night and the night is man's being.

they were just normal, and they were enjoying that elusive state of simply BEING...

home was not just a cabin in a deep woods that overlooked a placid cove. Home was a state of mind, the peace that came from being who you were and living an honest life.

To be what one is, is to enter fully into being a process.

The basic outline of the philosophy of the Buribunks: I think, therefore I am; I speak therefore I am; I write, therefore I am; I publish therefore I am.

We are made of the same stardust of which all things are made, and when we are immersed in suffering or when we are experiencing intense joy, we are being nothing other than what we can't help but be: a part of our world.

We inhabit time as fish live in water. Our being is being in time.

For a hypothetically supersensible being, there would be no "flowing" of time: the universe would be a single block of past, present, and future.

We are processes, events, composite and limited in space and time. But if we are not an individual entity, what is it that founds our identity and its unity?

What makes it so—that I am Carlo—and that my hair and my nails and my feet are considered part of me, as well as my anger and my dreams, and that I consider myself to be the same Carlo as yesterday, the same as tomorrow; the one who thinks, suffers, and perceives?

The entire evolution of science would suggest that the best grammar for thinking about the world is that of change, not of permanence. Not of being, but of becoming.

There is no ultimate or mysterious essence to understand that is the true essence of our being.

Democritus himself, who had placed empty space at the basis of his world where atoms course, certainly wasn't crystal clear on the issue: he wrote that empty space is something "between being and non-being":

If the present has no meaning, then what "exists" in the universe? Is not what "exists" precisely what is here "in the present"?

As our knowledge has grown, we have learned that our being is only a part of the universe, and a small part at that. This

O tempo é a minha matéria. O tempo presente, os homens presentes, a vida presente.

There is no old age. There is, as there always was, just you.

Ruth. If I die tomorrow, I'll be dead. But while I'm here, I want to be alive. One or the other. Not the state you're in.

The power of the Goddess is the intelligent embodied love that is the ground of all being. This intelligent embodied love undergirds every individual being including plants, animals and humans, as we participate in the physical and spiritual process of birth, death and renewal.

In the calm violence of your being, desire.

All of the aforementioned popular "vibration raising" practices have a way of brightening the light in our being, which tends to intensify and sharpen the presence of our latent darkness.

The Feeling Being

Moreover, in my own way, I have discerned in pure Being the involution of all forms. As felt, pure Being may be indeterminate, but as conceived reflectively it includes all determinations: so that when deployed into the realm of essence, infinite or indeterminate Being truly contains entertainment for all eternity.

I am, therefore I write.