Quotes About Being

The here-and-now is no mere filling of time, but a filling of time with God.

I believe that only one person in a thousand knows the trick of really living in the present.

One realm we have never conquered: the pure present.

He who lives in the present lives in eternity.

It is now, and in this world, that we must live.

The present contains all that there is. It is holy ground; for it is the past, and it is the future.

When shall we live if not now?

Every moment that I am centered in the future, I suffer a temporary loss of this life.

All that can be said with truth of this Absolute and Supreme Reality is that IT IS. This must suffice.

I have a body, but I am not my body. I have a face, but I am not my face.

Surrender is a state of mind and being that opens the mind and heart to divine revelation.

The true reason why faith is given such an exclusive place by the New Testament, so far as the attainment of salvation is concerned, over against love and over against everything else in man...is that faith means receiving something, not doing something or even being something. To say, therefore, that our faith saves us means that we do not save ourselves even in slightest measure, but that God saves us.

In this way, little by little , moment by moment, life can slip by without us being fully here for it. Always preoccupied with getting somewhere else, we are hardly ever where we actually are and attentive to what is actually unfolding in this moment.

Whatever our DNA, it's living and being that make us.

Whatever our DNA, it's living and being that makes us. We have to love, I think - as forthy as that sounds - we have to love to be fully alive, fully human.

To be full of being is to live as a body-soul. One name for the experience of full being is joy.

To thinking, cogitation, I oppose fullness, embodiedness, the sensation of being – not a consciousness of yourself as a kind of ghostly reasoning machine thinking thoughts, but on the contrary the sensation – a heavily affective sensation – of being a body with limbs that have extension in space, of being alive to the world.

Turb?t kol žmogus gyvas, tol jam viskas gerai.

Eckhart is saying that once we become empty of all the dross within, God the Mystery can do nothing but rush in to fill the vacuum of our absence. It is up to each one of us to choose between suffocating in the vortex of the limited, knowable self, or instead to cut the cords which bind, and let ourselves drift out into, and be, the vast, incomprehensible sea of Being itself.

I didn't know what to say. I felt like crying, Goddammit everybody in the world wants an explanation for your acts and for your very being.

I have all the time in the world from life to life to do what is to do, to do what is done, to do the timeless doing.

He was alone in the doorway, digging the street. Bitterness, recriminations, advice, morality, sadness--everything was behind him, and ahead of him was the ragged and ecstatic joy of pure being.

I didn't know what to say. I felt like crying, Goddamit everybody in the world wants an explanation for your acts and for your very being.

Bitterness, recriminations, advice, morality, sadness—everything was behind him, and ahead of him was the ragged and ecstatic joy of pure being (195).