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Quotes About Being

I didn't really get involved too heavily with being an actual film person.
~ Kenny Baker
The answer to religion is not no religion, but another way of thinking of it. Another way of being in it.
~ Salman Rushdie
How could I have been anyone other than me?
~ Dave Matthews
O que está faltando? Um nada, mas um nada que é tudo. Vocês têm a aparência da vida mas não expressam o seu excesso transbordante, esse não sei o quê que talvez seja a alma e que flutua enevoadamente sobre o invólucro[...]
~ Honore de Balzac
Be Here and Now Hovsep Kazezian - www.Hkazezian.com
~ Unknown
we all have a tendency to become so 'caught up' and identified with activity and external happenings that we neglect and lose touch with the 'I' that is there underneath it all. We are so engaged in what we are seeing, what we are feeling, or what we are doing, that we forget about the 'I' that is doing the seeing, having the feelings or performing the actions.
~ Unknown
presence of the great light, center of all being,
~ Howard Storm
My life is every moment of my life. It is not a culmination of the past.
~ Hugh Leonard
Every moment that I am centered in the future I suffer a temporary loss of this life.
~ Hugh Prather
It's not that "today is the first day of the rest of my life," but that now is all there is of my life.
~ Hugh Prather
The Master said, "Fa-ta, when your mind practices, it reads the Lotus. When it doesn't practice, the Lotus does the reading. When your mind is true, it reads the Lotus. When your mind is false, the Lotus does the reading. When you develop the understanding of a buddha, you read the Lotus. When you develop the understanding of an ordinary being, the Lotus reads you.
~ Unknown
All you ever were was a little bit of the universe, thinking to itself. Very specific; this bit, here, right now. All the rest was fantasy.
~ Iain M. Banks
A form of consciousness beyond the veils of discursive thought, a space forever present for those who seek it, not in some far-off wilderness, but in our inner most hearts. When that realization dawns in the depths of one's being, the world effortlessly transforms into that which was sought.
~ Unknown
The density of being makes it promiscuous, always touching everything else, unconcerned with differentiation. Anything is thing enough to party.
~ Ian Bogost
It seemed to us that we were witnessing a total break in the evolution of mankind, the complete collapse of man as a rational being. Heda Margolius Kovály, Under a Cruel Star: A Life in Prague 1941–1968 (1986)
~ Ian Kershaw
in the continued existence of those other things he saw his own being reflected.
~ Unknown
The automatism of man is overcome, in the words of Dhun'Nun, by aiming for 'being as you were, where you were, before you were'.
~ Idries Shah
As Ibn Arabi says: 'Absolute existence is the source of all existence'.
~ Idries Shah
I am the Real, for I have not ceased to be real – through the Real.
~ Idries Shah
Yo soy lo real, pues no he cesado de ser real… a través de lo real.
~ Idries Shah
We and all our existences are non-entities. Thou art the absolute being whose appearance is transitory.
~ Idries Shah
Sufi" es un nombre para el ser humano realizado.
~ Idries Shah
Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
~ Igor Stravinsky
don't worry please please how many times do I have to say it there's no way not to be who you are and where.
~ Ikkyu