Quotes About Being

You must learn to get in touch with the innermost essence of your being. This true essence is beyond the ego. It is fearless; it is free; it is immune to criticism; it does not fear any challenge. It is beneath no one, superior to no one, and full of magic, mystery, and enchantment.

Have no age, transcend both past and future, and enter into the eternal present.

Being alone is and nothing is altogether not.

Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?

My mind cannot know you, only labels, judgments, facts, and opinions about you. Being alone knows directly.

I don't mind being alone when I'm surrounded by people, I just hate being alone when I'm alone.

A blessed and indestructible being has no trouble himself and brings no trouble upon any other being; so he is free from anger and partiality, for all such things imply weakness.

man lives not for the fulfilment of his destiny, not for the incarnation of an idea, not for progress, but solely because he was born;

We both wanted money. Immense necessity! Universal want! Is there a civilised human being who does not feel for us? How insensible must that man be! Or how rich!

within, by its nature and structure and entelechy;

Everything, in so far as it is in itself, endeavors to persist in its own being; and the endeavor wherewith a thing seeks to persist in its own being is nothing else than the actual essence of that thing";

Everything, in so far as it is in itself, endeavors to persist in its own being; and the endeavor wherewith a thing seeks to persist in its own being is nothing else than the actual essence of that thing";65 the power whereby a thing persists is the core and essence of its being.

There is no was.

Nothing matters but breath, breathing, to know and to be alive.

Acceptance. Acceptance of the impermanence of being. And acceptance of the imperfect nature of being, or possibly the perfect nature of being, depending on how one looks at it. Acceptance that this is not a rehearsal. That this is it. (When asked what will save humanity.)

It would be more accurate, in terms of the mythform, to say that the matrix has a God, since this being's omniscience and omnipresence are assumed to be limited to the matrix.

Yet what it most nearly resembles, that place where history turns, is the Hole he has posited at the core of his being: an emptiness, as devoid of darkness as it is of light.

I, insofar as I have an I

If there were such a being," she said, "you'd be a part of it, wouldn't you?" "Yes." "Would you know?" "Not necessarily." "Do you know?" "No." "Do you rule out the possibility?" "No.

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.

Why may we not be in the universe, as our dogs and cats are in our drawingrooms and libraries?

Most people live in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make use of a very small portion of their possible consciousness, and of their soul's resources in general, much like a man who, out of his whole organism should get into a habit of using and moving only his little finger.

How comes the world to be here at all instead of the nonentity which might be imagined in its place? ... from nothing to being there is no logical bridge.