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Quotes About Being

There is nothing non-exclusive but the All; my end is communion with Being through the whole of Being.
~ Henri-Frédéric Amiel
Time is the supreme illusion. It is but the inner prism by which we decompose being and life, the mode under which we perceive successively what is simultaneous in idea.
~ Henri-Frédéric Amiel
To be acquainted with what is best and oldest in yourself, is to know yourself as you were, before the world was made, before you emerged into time.
~ Henry Corbin
That is why the theopathic maxim of the disciples of Ibn Arabi was not Ana'l Haqq "I am God " (Hallaj) , but Ana sirr al-l Haqq, "I am the secret of God," that is to say, the secret of love that makes His divinity dependent on me, because the hidden Treasure "yearned to be known" and it was necessary that beings exist in order that He might be known and know Himself.
~ Henry Corbin
It's good to be just plain happy; it's a little better to know that you're happy; but to understand that you're happy and to know why and how… and still be happy, be happy in the being and the knowing, well that is beyond happiness, that is bliss.
~ Henry Miller
If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.
~ Henry Miller
The heroine of my writings is She, whom I love with all the forces of my being, She who always was, is and will be beautiful, is Truth
~ Leo Tolstoy
All that exists is One. People only call this One by different names.
~ Leo Tolstoy
and Ivan Ilyich was left alone with the consciousness that his life was poisoned and was poisoning the lives of others, and that this poison did not weaken but penetrated more and more deeply into his whole being. With
~ Leo Tolstoy
Why does everything exist that exists, and why do I exist?" "Because it exists.
~ Leo Tolstoy
your consciousness of existence is derived from the conjunction of all your sensations, that that consciousness of existence is the result of your sensations.
~ Leo Tolstoy
the true life is outside time; it is in the present
~ Leo Tolstoy
I don't want to play at life" I said, "But to live.
~ Leo Tolstoy
When you were neither seed not child and I was nothing too
~ Leonard Cohen
It's the new best way to start your day - Ram Lev on Facebook Live TOMORROW, Thursday, March 16th, at 7:30am EST. "If I am not the body that was born and dies, and I am not the mind that always changes, then who am I? The One who is aware of the body, aware of the mind, and aware of the questions.
~ Leonard Perlmutter
To come to the table is to learn to be our real selves—not some construct conceived by someone else, but who God made us to be.
~ Leonard Sweet
This is the basic insight of the Gnostics, the one known to the great mystical thinkers of all traditions: the divine spark is within each human being.
~ Lesley Hazleton
Sacred time is always in the Present.
~ Leslie Marmon Silko
Being alive was all right then: he had not breathed like that for a long time.
~ Leslie Marmon Silko
The Animal is in the World Like Water in Water
~ Leslie Scalapino
An event is not in the person.
~ Leslie Scalapino
After all, being alive is my top priority...Leslie from Love & Hugs, Leslie
~ Leslie Sinclair
I suppose," Quentin said slowly, "you're going to say that that is a being of sublime beauty and power, and he only looks like that because my fallen mortal eyes are incapable of perceiving his true magnificence." "No. We think that's actually pretty much it.
~ Lev Grossman
Disease is war with the laws of our being, and all war, as a great general has said, is hell.
~ Lewis G. Janes