Quotes About Being

Evolutionary biology is now uttering and seeking those forces that link us with all those that have being.

Do not think about the past, do not worry about the future, instead concentrate your mind on the present moment.

You are valuable because you exist. Not because of what you do or what you have done, but simply because you are.

Be present it is the only moment that matters.

I believe our children, unknowingly and with innocent trickery, teach us the deeper knowledge of how to be a true human being

because it is a study of the ultimate, it defines and governs every other area of thought and life. Therefore, as long as God is the ultimate being or reality, theological reflection is the ultimate human activity.

God made everything that exists; nothing exists that he has not created. God is the only uncreated being.

God is an uncaused being, and since he is the creator, sustainer, and controller of all things, he existed before all things. He sustains his own being, and he is not dependent on anything.

Revelation 4:11 says, "You are worthy, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things, and by your will they were created and have their being.

According to the Jain view, soul is that element which knows, thinks and feels. It is in fact the divine element in the living being. The Jain thinks that the phenomena of knowledge, feeling, thinking and willing are conditioned on something, and that that something must be as real as anything can be.

Aquel que ha sido no puede más en adelante no haber sido. En lo sucesivo ese hecho misterioso y profundamente oscuro de haber vivido es su viático para la eternidad".8

I… thanked the Author of my being for the gift of that wild forest, those green mansions where I had found so great a happiness!

Man is nature's sole mistake.

When you ask me what I'm afraid of, I'd say I still go to see ghost movies when I get a chance or some sort of supernatural being, but it doesn't scare me as it scared me when I was a child.

Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.

Expression and communication in the peak–experiences tend often to become poetic, mythical, and rhapsodic, as if this were the natural kind of language to express such states of being.

Writing seems to rob me of my being: it is a second hand mode of communication, a pallid, mechanical transcript of speech, and so always at one remove from my consciousness.

I wish I could show you...the astonishing light of your own being.

You are already That which you seek.

It is only the belief and the confidence we have in a God why man is able to understand his own social institutions, and move and live like a rational human being.

The last person one wants to be is themselves. Sadly, that is the best person to be.

There's a physicality and confidence to Americans; they're very present. That's something I enjoy being around because it rubs off on you.

No matter what identity we cling to, it takes great courage to step out of the old masks we wear and the old scripts that we live by, and open ourselves to the mysterious inner core of our being.

Courage is necessary to make being and becoming possible.