Quotes About Being

Anticipation is no longer needed- because the moment is now.

The past and future are what's complicated. It's the present that's simple.

No past. No future. Just present. Give it a chance.

We are the time. We are the breathing. We are the air.

I don't know how this works. Or why. I stopped trying to figure it out a long time ago. I'm never going to figure it out, any more than a normal person figure out his or her own existence. After a while, you have to be at peace with the fact that you simply are. There is no way to know why. You can have theories, but there will never be proof.

After a while, you have to be at peace with the fact that you simply are. There is no way to know why. You can have theories, but there will never be proof.

After a while, you have to be at peace with the fact that you simply are. There is no way to know why.

You have to be at peace with the fact that you simple are.

breath is not aware of its history; it is just breath. I wish I could be like that, or love could be like that.

For our afternoon, I've decided to attempt to give Rhiannon the satisfaction of being fully alone. Not the lethargy of lying on the couch or the dull monotony of drifting off in math class. Not the midnight wandering in a sleeping house or the pain of being left in a room after the door has been slammed shut. This alone is not a variation of any of those. This alone is its own being. Feeling the body, but not using it to sidetrack the mind. Moving with purpose, but not in a rush.

I have no idea what time it is, what day it is. I have nothing but now. Nothing but here. And that is more than enough.

The past and future are what's complicated. It's the present that's simple.

There is law enough all about us in almanack and season, anniversary days come round, the round earth's carnivale of chimes and recessionals. Good to be included there. Good also what is not fixed or sure even, the second breath of being here when the May-bush snows in mid-September, as giddy happenstance leads us this way into a lost one's arms, or that way deeper into the maze.

To be is to be perceived

In truth, what you actually are is God's Love Manifested into being. That's all this God is looking to receive from you, your love given freely from your own heart and in doing so, in that act of freely giving back your love, you come to know who you are.

As far as he can tell, that's what Odo spends most of his time doing: being in time, like one sits by the river, watching the water go by. It's a lesson hard learned, just to sit there and be.

No matter where you go, there you are

And so it happened again, the daily miracle whereby interiority opens out and brings to bloom the million-petalled flower of being here, in the world, with other people. Neither as hard as she had thought it might be nor as easy as it appeared.

We did not desire or dread the boys in themselves, we only desired and dreaded being wanted or not being wanted.

she made you feel that just being in this moment, doing this thing, was the most important and marvellous possibility for you.

I said, See what you've done there is you've transformed an act of the perpetrator into a characteristic of the target. You've turned one person's action into another person's being. I said, You don't say to a witch: the reason they're dunking you is because you're a witch. You say, the reason they're dunking you is these motherfuckers believe in witchcraft! Their whole society is based on it!

You need to build an ability to just be yourself and not be doing something.

Dignity is not located in seeking equality with the white man and his civilization: it is not about assuming the attitudes of the master who has allowed his slaves to eat at his table. It is about being oneself with all the multiplicities, systems and contradictions of one's way of being, doing and knowing. It is about being true to one's Self.

How you get here is immaterial, it's being here that really matters.