Quotes About Being

As the ego cogito, subjectivity is the consciousness that represents something, relates this representation back to itself, and so gathers with itself.

Substance must itself be said of the modes and only of the modes.

The only substance properly so called is the soul.

Judgment is not my business. Existing is my business.

As a human body it is an extraordinary piece of creation. But as a human being he is rotten because of the culture.

Q.= WHO AM I? WHO ARE YOU? U.G = You are what you are doing RIGHT NOW!

There is always a certain peace in being what one is, in being that completely.

The fact is I think I am a verb instead of a personal pronoun. A verb is anything that signifies to be; to do; to suffer. I signify all three.

Consciousness precedes Being, and not the other way around, as Marxists claim. For this reason, the salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human modesty, and in human responsibility. Without a global revolution in the sphere of human consciousness, nothing will change for the better.

The role of the writer is not simply to arrange Being according to his own lights; he must also serve as a medium to Being and remain open to its often unfathomable dictates. This is the only way the work can transcend its creator and radiate its meaning further than the author himself can see or perceive.

Yea, O my lord,"the monarch said, And took the vase upon his head, The gift of Gods, of fine gold wrought, With store of heavenly liquor fraught. He honoured, filled with transport new, That wondrous being, fair to

You are acting, not being." Strasberg explained, "I stress the difference between the actor who thinks acting is an imitation of life, and the actor who feels acting is living

I am, whatever may come tomorrow, today I am.

You are not going to find yourself anywhere except right where you are.

Love's not an emotion. It's a state of being, an ability.

Everybody's got soul. It's a matter of what condition it's in.

The greatest justice in life is to be who one is.

Know, child, that the One God—He is so vast that He cannot be moved, else the Universe falls. Nor can He answer, for the very act of opening His Mouth is Movement, indeed the greatest Act of all, for it is the Word. And this is precisely why He has made an infinity of lesser gods, creating them in His own image, so that we can do the lesser things on His behalf. We are His hands and arms and feet and mouths. We are His answers to your prayers, enacted along the great Framework of Being.

Home is) a place we carry inside ourselves, a place where we welcome the unfamiliar because we know that as time passes it will become the very bedrock of our being.

The entire sum of existence is the magic of being needed by just one other person.

Our bodies, apart from their brilliant role as drawing exercises, are the temples of our being. Like the bodies of all fauna, they deserve both our study and our appreciation.

We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order.

If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being.

Space and stillness is the light that illuminates the beauty of our soul's being.