Quotes About Being

The body expresses our very being. The striving for beauty is inborn among the Aryan.

We need to learn to live in the here and now; this moment is the best moment. Live it fully.

Art gives us the illusion of liberation from the sordid business of being.

Judgment is not my business. Existing is my business.

Here is another secret: I have no business being fascinated by you.

I wouldn't want to sacrifice the last years that I have of being youthful in this business to have kids.

When you get into your car, after you close the door, pause for a few seconds and observe the flow of your breath. Become aware of a silent but powerful sense of presence.

When you open yourself to the continually changing, impermanent, dynamic nature of your own being and of reality, you increase your capacity to love and care about other people and your capacity to not be afraid.

The real thing that we renounce is the tenacious hope that we could be saved from being who we

by acknowledging whatever arises without judgment, letting the thoughts simply dissolve, and then going back to the openness of this very moment.

We're always in an intermediate state between the past and the future, between the memory of what happened before and the approaching experience that will soon become memory as well.

Thoughts, emotions, moods, and memories come and they go, and basic nowness is always here.

Being fully present isn't something that happens once and then you have achieved it; it's being awake to the ebb and flow and movement and creation of life, being alive to the process of life itself.

key instruction is to stay in the present. Don't get caught up in hopes of what you'll achieve and how good your situation will be some day in the future. What you do right now is what matters.

Coming back to the present moment takes some effort, but the effort is very light. The instruction is to "touch and go." We touch thoughts by acknowledging them as thinking and then we let them go. It's a way of relaxing our struggle, like touching a bubble with a feather. It's a nonaggressive approach to being here.

L'abîme est ma clôture, être moi n'a pas de mesure

Freedom would mean rest, artistic achievement, the intellectual fulfilment of my being.

I'm older than Time and Space because I'm conscious.

If a man of real sensitivity and correct reasoning feels concerned about the evil and injustice of the world, he naturally seeks to correct it first where it manifests itself closest to home and that, he will find, is in his own being. This task will take him his whole lifetime.

There is no real origin for anything. Everything just exists. Everything just exists in order to exist.

Sentience is brought into being somehow from the evolution of sensing and acting; it involves being a living system with a point of view on the world around it

the wonder of Being. Sometimes Being breaks in on us: A stunning sunset, an eagle in the sky or a snake upon a rock, a soul-stretching movement of a Beethoven Quartet, and at those moments the glory of Being breaks into our black-and-white lives in bright colors. In Heideggerian terms, the way of grace is the way of remembrance. Those who live by the way of grace live always with the remembrance of Being.

Like apes, we breed, sleep, and die. Yet like God we say, I am. We are ontological oxymorons.

What we do is not as important as what we are. Our functionalistic modern society tends to reduce our being to our function. What is the first question we ask about someone? "What does he do?" But love never asks that question first. The first question for love is always "Who are you?" rather than "What do you do?" Being is prior to doing, and love's realism refuses to reverse that real order.