Quotes About Being

I want you to be everything that's you, deep at the center of your being." "Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated

Query: How does the never to be differ from what never was?

He imagined the pain of the world to be like some formless parasitic being seeking out the warmth of human souls wherein to incubate and he thought he knew what made one liable to its visitations. What he had not known was that it was mindless and so had no way to know the limits of those souls and what he feared was that there might be no limits.

every man is tabernacled in every other, and he in exchange and so on in an endless complexity of being and witness to the uttermost edge of the world.

That the deep foundation of the world be considered where it has its being in the sorrow of her creatures.

Whether in my book or not, every man is tabernacled in every other and he in exchange and so on in an endless complexity of being and witness to the uttermost edge of the world.

The dream wakes us to tell us to remember. Maybe there's nothing to be done. Maybe the question is whether the terror is a warning about the world or about ourselves. ... Are you waking from something you have seen or from something that you are?

The great mystery of being a human being is trying to figure out WTF all those other human beings are doing.

What Jesus is saying here, powerfully and clearly, is that if you do the work of transforming your being, moving beyond the egoic mind, then you become a living spirit.

The Risen Lord is indeed risen. Present, intimate, creative, 'closer than your own heartbeat,' accessed through your vulnerability, your capacity for intimacy. The imaginal realm is real, and through it you will never be separated from any one or anything you have ever loved, for love is the ground in which you live and move and have your being. This is the message that Mary Magdalene has perennially to bring. This is the message we most need to hear.

What one does in one's art, that is the breath of one's being. What one does in one's life, that is a bagatelle for the outsiders to fuss about.

You've got to lapse out before you can know what sensual reality is, lapse into unkowingness, and give up your volition...You've got to learn not-to-be before you can come into being.

To him now, life seemed a shadow, day a white shadow; night, and death, and stillness, and inaction, this seemed like BEING. To be alive, to be urgent and insistent--that was NOT-TO-BE. The highest of all was to melt out into the darkness and sway there, identified with the great Being.

Sufficient unto the moment is the appearanceof reality.

Death cannot create nor destroy. What is, is.

Beings, things, and events do not exist in time: being, things, and events are times.

The truth of life is just to live.

You must habit yourself to the dazzle of the light and of every moment of your life

I exist as I am. That is enough

Enough to live, enough to merely be.

Were you thinking that those were the words, those upright lines? those curves, angles, dots? No, those are not the words, the substantial words are in the ground and sea, They are in the air, they are in you.

I and mine do not convince by arguments, similes, rhymes, We convince by our presence.)

Language communicates the linguistic being of things. The clearest manifestation of this being, however, is language itself. The answer to the question ' What does language communicate?' is therefore 'All language communicates itself.

When there hasn't been anything there, nothing can be said to have vanished from the place where it has not been. (Out Of The Deep)