Quotes About Being

Insofar as the Ultimate, or the true nature of being is concerned, there are neither Buddhas nor demons. He who frees himself from fear and hope, evil and virtue, will realize the insubstantial and groundless nature of confusion. Samsara will then appear to be the Mahamudra itself. . . .

A sense of knowing, or seeing, always happens. If you are willing to acknowledge its existence, there is the potential of being wakeful, open, and precisely there constantly. This is not based on being a sharp person, a smart person, or a very careful person. Rather, it is about being a person who can actually be—by yourself, very simply.

When you experience your wisdom and the power of things as the are, together, as one, then you have access to tremendous vision and power in the world. you find that you are inherently connected to your own being. That is discovering magic.

Altogether, the idea of meditation is not to create states of ecstasy or absorption, but to experience being.

There is something to do, but at the same time whatever you are doing is only related to the moment rather than being related to achieving some goal in the future, which brings us back to the practice of meditation. Meditation is not a matter of beginning to set foot on the path; it is realizing that you are already on the path—fully being in the nowness of this very moment—now, now, now. You do not actually begin because you have never really left the path.

God is the only being who need not even exist in order to reign.

Satan is illegal on the earth. He's a created being. He has no authority here because he wasn't born here. Mankind had rightful dominion of the whole earth.

I have said that they were truly happy; and without strong affection and humanity of heart, and gratitude to that Being whose code is Mercy, and whose great attribute is Benevolence to all things that breathe, happiness can never be attained.

With the Past, as past, I have nothing to do; nor with the Future, as future. I live now...

Let the credit card companies market as they will, the only thing that's priceless is Now.

And poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.

Know this Mr. Davis. I am not crazy. I am not sane. I am not alive. I am not dead. I am not even the human being who you call Dr. Vigo Andersen. I was never born and I will never die. I am an eternal being. I am that I am. This, what you call reality, is just a collective dream. I was about to wake up from it permanently when I was yanked back into this temporal space. I did not try to kill myself. I tried to wake up.

El nos habita pese a nosotros

Ser o no ser. Ser, querido Shakespeare. Siempre ser.

Uno tiene que estar en algún lado, si tan sólo se pudiera ser sin estar entonces podría ser lo que se dice un alma solitaria.

The poet is at the edge of our consciousness of the world, finding beyond the suspected nothingness which we imagine limits our perception another acre or so of being worth our venturing upon.

I love being. There's so much wisdom in it. You wake up in the morning and you think, Hey, isn't it great just being?

Yo lo único que hago es vivir," he says. The only thing I do is live.

lo único que hago es vivir

Perception bestows blessing—as the stories sketched in this chapter attempt to demonstrate. Perception brings into being and maintains the being of whatever is perceived; and when perception sees in "the holiness of the Heart's affections," again as these stories say, things are revealed that prove the Truth of the Imagination.

A life best lived is by taking satisfaction in just being, and recognizing that life turns out to be best for those who tried their best.

Just scream Hey world it's me, I'm here and alive. "Live today. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Just today...

James Hilton ( Cowboy)

For a moment at least, live in the moment, where living is different from just existing.