Quotes About Being

God does not suffer out of deficiency of being, like created beings. To this extent he is 'apathetic'. But he suffers from the love which is the superabundance and overflowing of his being. In so far he is 'pathetic'.

God does not suffer out of deficiency of being, like created beings. But he does suffer from his love, which is the overflowing superabundance of his being. And in this sense he can suffer.

He is what He is and there was never a time when he wasn't.

You only ever have a moment to live, this moment, and yet we all tend to live in the past or in the future.

Mindful awareness—or mindfulness—spontaneously arises out of this Being mode when we learn to pay attention, on purpose, in the present moment, without judgment, to things as they actually are.

Mindful awareness – or mindfulness – spontaneously arises out of this Being mode when we learn to pay attention, on purpose, in the present moment, without judgment, to things as they actually are. In mindfulness, we start to see the world as it is, not as we expect it to be, how we want it to be, or what we fear it might become.

Thirdly, the breath provides a natural, gently moving target to focus on in your meditation; it grounds you in the here and now. You cannot take a breath for five minutes ago, or for five minutes' time. You can only take a breath for now

The alternative to being is reacting, and reacting interrupts being and annihilates.

Now I want to say: 'After being - doing and being done to. But first, being.

Each moment is all being, each moment is the entire world. Reflect now whether any being or any world is left out of the present moment.

From ancient times, those systems of thought that merit the name 'philosophy' or 'religion' have developed an all-embracing worldview with at least two dimensions. The first is a theory of value, or ethics, that relates to how human life should be lived. The second is a theory of being, or ontology, which posits the structure of existence, or of the world.

Jesus, Willard says, "does not call us to do what he did, but to be as he was, permeated with love. Then the doing of what he did and said becomes the natural expression of who we are in him.

Where are you? Here What time is it? Now What are you? This moment.

The world does not need words. It articulates itself in sunlight, leaves, and shadows. The stones on the path are no less real for lying uncatalogued and uncounted. The fluent leaves speak only the dialect of pure being.

Mental presence is a state of being wide awake and receptive to what is happening, as it is happening in the moment, within us and between the world and us. Presence cultivates happiness.

the awareness that emerges through paying attention on purpose, in the present moment, and nonjudgmentally to the unfolding of experience moment by moment" (Kabat-Zinn,

Instead, the point here is about embracing the notion that one can live with an internal focus of motivation and a sense of respect for the inner, authentic experience of being alive.

La mente en desarrollo: cómo interactúan las relaciones y el cerebro para modelar nuestro ser. Va

I think the first villain that I ever played was on 'Stargate'. I was this superior being that would take over a human host and believe that he was the most superior being in the universe.

To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous.

The compelling drive to get at the truth is what improves us all as psychologists and is part and parcel of intellectual integrity. But I do urge that we not let the drive for honesty put blinders on us and cut off our range of vision so that we miss the very thing we set out the understand - namely, the living human being.

To come to be you must have a vision of Being, a Dream, a Purpose, a Principle. You will become what your vision is.

Je vivais parce que j'étais née, c'était tout

It is that perfection of God by which he is devoid of all change, not only in His Being, but also in His perfections, and in His purposes and promises.