Quotes About Being

Enlightenment isn't when you go there; it's when there comes here.

Kabat-Zinn responded, "There is no purpose in meditation. As soon as you assign a purpose to meditation, you've made it just another activity to try to get someplace or reach some goal" (128).

There have been hermaphrodites around forever, Cal. Forever. Plato said that the original human being was a hermaphrodite. Did you know that? The original person was two halves, one male, one female. Then these got separated. That's why everybody's always searching for their other half. Except for us. We've got both halves already.

Now I'm just like everybody else, and it's so funny, the way monogamy is funny, the way someone falling down in the street is funny. I entered a revolving door and emerged as a human being. When you think of me is my face electronically blurred?

We are human beings, not human doings, aren't we, Gomer girl? Our identity is not based on what we do. It's based on what God did for us.

All pain we experience is intended to move us closer to the goal of being holy as He is holy.

Let's just be fabulously where we are and who we are. You be you and I'll be me, today and today and today, and let's trust the future to tomorrow.

Live today. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Just today. Inhabit your moments. Don't rent them out to tomorrow.

Live today. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Just today. Inhabit your moments. Don't rent them out to tomorrow.

Live today. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Just today.

It (birth) had caused Ruma to acknowledge the supernatural in everyday life. But death, too, had the power to awe, she knew this now- that a human being could be alive for years and years, thinking and breating and eating, full of a million worries and feelings and thoughts, taking up space in the world, and then in an instant, become absent, invisible.

I always thought it was a trap to fit into ideologies, and maybe that's a luxury position, but my work is a reflection of my being here. My being here is not a reflection of an idea.

I think that one of the strangest things about being an actor is, it's almost freelance work.

Being is primary and doing is secondary for them. Celebration comes first and work takes a back seat in their lives. Work is preparatory to celebration.

The ideal label for me would be this passive being with lots of money, but unfortunately it doesn't really work like that.

How is it that you live, and what is it you do?

We must not be defined by what we do, but we must be what and who we are, then only happen to do what we do!

Our time is the life we have at the moment

Humans are created out of time

Human existence is as a result of the product of time

Your gift is not what you do but what you are

I'm just looking for the best story being told by the best people and the best part that I can find. If those things add up, I want to be a part of it whether it's a studio film or, more likely in that instance, an independent film.

A person is not merely a single subject distinguished from all the others. It is especially a being to which is attributed a relative autonomy in relation to the environment with which it is most immediately in contact.

Philosophic meditation is an accomplishment by which I attain Being and my own self, not impartial thinking which studies a subject with indifference.