Quotes About Being

When the practitioner remains present with the prana and is not wavering, then they have realized the marriage of the authentic state of one's being which is space, and wisdom: ying and yeshe. These two elements, which constitute the authentic state of one's being, cannot be brought together, and because of that they cannot be separated—they function in the state of totality of one's authentic condition where both elements are present.

Our choices are what make us good or evil – what we do, how we help or hurt the world. You make the world a better place by being in it. With or without magic, that's always been true.

One lives in the very present moment; lives intently. There is no urge to be doing: being is the highest good.

I do not live in the present ... I AM the present.

I'm not a body with a soul, I'm a soul that has a visible part called the body.

I'm alive. When I'm eating that's all I think about. If I'm on the march, I just concentrate on marching. If I have to fight,it will be just as good a day as any to die. If you can concentrate always on the present, you'll be a happy man. Life is the moment we are living now.

Because I don't live in either my past or my future.I'm interested only in the present.

I am talking to you, but the moment I am talking to you, the universe is being created and destroyed.

In life, there is only the present moment, the now. You can't measure time the way you measure distance between two points. Time doesn't pass.

The world is unfathomable and mysterious, just as we all are. The art of the warrior consists of reconciling the terror of being a man with the wonder of being a man.

the truth about this existence of ours...can be summed up in one word: Live

I don't live in either my past or my future. I'm interested only in the present. If you can concentrate always on the present, you'll be a happy man.

don't live in either my past or my future. I'm interested only in the present. If you can concentrate always on the present, you'll be a happy man.

Is man all man and is woman all woman? If so, they will never come together, since he lives for his own being and she lives for universal life, and these are opposites.

For he came to perceive that since people were his study, his teachers, the objects through which he could satisfy his persistent wonder about life itself, his own being among others, wherever he lived for the moment, there was his home.

We insist on being Someone, with a capital S. We get security from defining ourselves as worthless or worthy, superior or inferior. We waste precious time exaggerating or romanticizing or belittling ourselves with a complacent surety that yes, that's who we are. We mistake the openness of our being—the inherent wonder and surprise of each moment—for a solid, irrefutable self. Because of this misunderstanding, we suffer.

As we practice moving into the present moment this way, we become more familiar with groundlessness, a fresh state of being that is available to us on an ongoing basis. This moving away from comfort and security, this stepping out into what is unknown, uncharted, and shaky—that's called liberation.

The point is that our true nature is not some ideal that we have to live up to. It's who we are right now, and that's what we can make friends with and celebrate.

We can connect with that openness at any time. For instance, right now, for three seconds, just stop reading and pause. If

The desertion of Jesus, by his followers, furnishes an argument in support of the supposition that he attempted to be king of the Jews, rather than that he was a superior being.

The human being receives the pleasure from music, not from the argument over what it is.

Meditation could be said to be the Art of Simplicity: simply sitting, simply breathing and simply being.

You cannot define electricity. The same can be said of art. It is a kind of inner current in a human being, or something which needs no definition.

Presence is far more intricate and rewarding an art than productivity.