Quotes About Being

A candle without a spark, a sky without a sun, the look people get when they cease to be people, start being bodies.

When we say there is a GOD, we mean that there is an intelligent designing cause of what we see in the world around us, and a being who was himself uncaused.

The Entity who brought the universe into existence must be a Personal Being, for only a person can design with anywhere near this degree of precision.

...Everything that is, desires to be. As we act, we unfold our being. Enjoyment naturally follows, for a thing desired always brings delight.

A true desire is not to have but to be. We are whole creatures in potential, and the true purpose of desire is to unfold that wholeness, to become what we can be.

The affirmation of one's essential being in spite of desires and anxieties creates joy.

To achieve our eternal destiny, we will desire and work for the qualities required to become an eternal being.

After all, conflict arises, does it not, through the desire to be something, to be other than what is.

All desires and egoism will have to be banished from the being.

Be who you are, said the Duchess to Alice, or, if you would like it put more simply, never try to be what you might have been or could have been other than what you should have been.

You are a great, mighty and powerful spiritual being with dignity, direction and purpose.

There is dignity in your being even if there's indignity in what you're doing.

To be a human being is to be in a state of tension between your appetites and your dreams, and the social realities around you and your obligations to your fellow man.

Every living being needs continually renewed, and education is simply the chief process by which renewal occurs.

I exist as I am, that is enough.

We are born to Exist, not to know, to be, not to assert ourselves.

We are assuming that we exist, that there is reality, and that the matter of which we are made is real.

Acting is way of making yourself exist.

Obviously, I'm not a Neanderthal. I do do laundry. I am a human being.

There is a furnace in our cells, and when we breathe we pass the world through our bodies, brew it lightly, and turn it loose again, gently altered for having known us.

And everyday I open a volume or two, read a few lines or pages, allow the voices of the forgotten dead to resonate inside my head. Do they sense it, these dead writers, when their books are read? Does a pinprick of light appear in their darkness? Is their soul stirred by the feather touch of another mind reading theirs? I do hope so. For it must be very lonely being dead.

Coming and going I am leaving. I will go and come. Leaving has come to me. We all, shall all, will all be left. Because I am here and where. And I will go or not or never. And I have seen what I will see. If I am where I will be. Because nothing comes between me.

Past, present and future are not amenities of language. Time unfolds into the seamsof being. It passes through you, making and shaping.

We can't get outside the aura. We're part of the aura. We're here, we're now.