Quotes About Being

The world of reason is to be regarded as a great and immortal being, who ceaselessly works out what is necessary, and so makes himself lord also over what is accidental.

I know my strengths are doing a weird accent or having weird mannerisms so when I have to play a normal human being, I'm like, 'this is too hard.'

As children, we think our mother has always been a mother, but it is just one of the roles you may have the opportunity to play. They don't define you as a human being.

The human body is essentially something other than an animal organism.

I've never been overwhelmed with a desire to become famous. It's not that I didn't want to have my work appreciated, but for some reason - maybe it's because my father disapproved of almost everything I did - in some secret place in my being was a desire to avoid success.

Life is a mess, Rose said. You can fix the mess human beings make, Rose said, But you can't fix the mess being human is.

Identity is your role in life, the part you play. Individuality is who you are, and who you are is revealed to you if you can get to complete presence.

Before man ventures into daydreams about his futuristic society, he should first immerse himself in the nothingness of his being, and finally restore life to what it is all about: a working hypothesis.

In other words, God's love is not a characteristic of God. For example, maybe you've heard someone say, "Sure, God is loving, but his love is balanced with his justice." Or, "Without justice, love is not possible." These statements talk of God's love as an attribute of God. But, for Eastern Christians, God's very nature is love. It's not an aspect of God's being, it is God's very being.

Maybe you've heard someone say, "Sure, God is loving, but his love is balanced with his justice" or "Without justice, love is not possible." These statements speak of God's love as an attribute of God. But, for the Divinity model, God's very nature is love. Love is not an aspect of God's being; love is God's very being.

I am not . . . . . . my life story, the mind, the body, feelings, experiences of pain or pleasure, struggle, success or failure. I am not loneliness, stillness, frustration or compassion. I am not even what I think is my purpose, the seeking, the finding, or anything which is called a spiritual experience.

In being, there is no becoming, no attachment to a goal. I see that I no longer have to achieve any standard or behave in a certain way in order to become worthy.

And with every exercise, he reminds us of the one and only rule. Acting isn't pretending. The clue is in the word. Acting is doing. Being. Becoming.

Creativity is the state of consciousness in which you enter into the treasury of your innermost being and bring the beauty into manifestation." (p.232)

He didn't remember, he didn't worry, he just was.

När Fredrikson avlöste mig vid rodret i gryningen nämnde jag i förbigående Joxarens förvånande och fullkomliga brist på intresse för omgivningen. Hm, sade Fredrikson. Kanske han tvärtom bryr sig om allting? Lite lugnt och lagom. Vi bryr oss om en enda sak. Du vill bli. Jag vill göra. Mitt brorsbarn vill ha. Men Joxaren bara lever.

Aloneness is a state of being, whereas loneliness is a state of feeling. It's like the difference between being broke and being poor.

Ontology is that branch of philosophy that deals with the nature of reality and different ways of being.

To alter the way you are being, you must engage with the phenomenon of context. Context is the human environment that determines the limitations of your actions and the scope of the results your actions can produce.

TRANSFORMATION is a function of altering the way you are being—to create something that is currently not possible in your reality.

Being As it pertains to transformation, the realm of possibility in which something exists, rather than an emotional or behavioral state. The way you are being at any given time determines what's possible.

Your Winning Strategy is not what you do. It is the source of what you do. It is a manifestation of who you are being.

The way you are being is the source of your reality, which in turn is the source of your actions.

Shift your focus of attention from what you are doing to the way you are being. Specifically: Are you being the "invented future and context" that you created, or are you being "right," dominating and avoiding domination, and justifying the way you are?