Quotes About Being

race and species are only general concepts, except in so far as they exist in the individual being'.

Not how the world is, but that it is, is the mystery.

I exist," he said softly.

I am; I was. I want to be.

Kundera's novel [ The Unbearable Lightness of Being ] seems as relevant now as it did when it was first published. Relevance, however, is nothing compared with that sense of felt life which the truly great novelists communicate.

Tengo la sensación de que sólo me limito a respirar. Y existe una diferencia entre respirar y seguir viviendo.

I could not heal my being with my doing. To be who I am is all that matters.

we are spiritual beings who need an earthly journey to become fully spiritual.

Toxic shame, with its more-than-human, less-than-human polarization, is either inhuman or dehumanizing. The demand for a false self to cover and hide the authentic self necessitates a life dominated by doing and achievement. Everything depends on performance and achievement rather than on being. Being requires no measurement; it is its own justification. Being is grounded in an inner life that grows in richness.

What I couldn't grasp is that there is no way to change your being by your doing. The shame-based core cries out, "You're flawed and defective! There's something wrong with you!" All the doing in the world won't change that.

Being requires no measurement; it is its own justification. Being is grounded in an inner life that grows in richness. "The kingdom of heaven is within," says the Scripture. Toxic shame looks to the outside for happiness and validation, since the inside is flawed and defective. Toxic shame is spiritual bankruptcy.

We are not material beings on a spiritual journey; we are spiritual beings who need an earthly journey to become fully spiritual.

In divorcing salvation from achievement, the Christian had established the priority of being over doing.

I am I." "Tat tvam asi.

Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and virtue; for thou hast created all things, and by thy will they have their being and were created. – Revelation 4:11)

But being has to precede doing if you want to change your world.

Do not live in the PAST. You dont live there anymore. Do not live in the FUTURE. You are not there yet. Live in the NOW. Your PRESENCE is HERE.

God is the only being we should trust in because of how inconsistent we are, so unpredictable that everything we are connected with, we disappoint. Friendship is for humans, Love for God.

Love is a state of being. Your love is not outside, it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it can not leave you.

Language has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone, and the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.

Meditation is a death - death of all that you are now. Of course there will be a resurrection, but that will be a totally new, fresh original being which you are not even aware is hidden in you.

I venture that those of us who are most serene when faced with the possibility of nothingness are the ones who've reached furthest to the downward and upward of their beings.

Death is a doorway. It is a very small, thin doorway and only a portion of our being can walk through.

And on the threshold of being no more I succeed in being another.