Quotes About Being

For who would lose, though full of pain, this intellectual being, those thoughts that wander through eternity to perish rather, swallowed up and lost in the wide womb of uncreated Night?

The real mystery is not that things are the way they are, but that there is something rather than nothing.

Joy is God's basic character. Joy is his eternal destiny. God is the happiest being in the universe.

Always be. Never try to become. You can be anything you want, just don't work at becoming. Remember to be it.

Refuse to tolerate anything less than harmony. You can have prosperity no matter what your present circumstances may be. Man has dominion over all things when he knows the Law of Being, and obeys it. The Law gives you power to attain prosperity and position without infringing the rights and opportunities of anyone else in the world." — Emmet Fox in Alter Your Life

Forget the why and focus on the is

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

Word is that you're not all that popular on the committee. The word 'asshole' gets attached to you a lot." "I'm just being me.

God's time is slow, patient, and kind and welcomes friendship; it is a way of being in the fullness of time that is not determined by productivity, success, or linear movements toward personal goals. It is a way of love, a way of the heart.

A blank check. A woman is blank until you fuck her. Everything is blank until you fuck it. Us and Vietnam, fucking and being fucked, blood is wisdom.

An omniscient being could not be ignorant of anything, so an omniscient being would not know something. He could not know ignorance.

There is just this moment. We are not trying to improve or to get anywhere else.

If we are not careful, it is all too easy to fall into becoming more of a human doing than a human being, and forget who is doing all the doing, and why.

After all, if you really aren't trying to get anywhere else in this moment, patience takes care of itself.

Above all, meditation is about letting the mind be as it is and knowing something about how it is in this moment. It's not about getting somewhere else, but about allowing yourself to be where you already are.

When I was talking to a reporter, she said, "Oh, you mean to live for the moment." I said, "No, it isn't that. That has a hedonistic ring to it. I mean to live in the moment.

The present is the only time that we have to know anything.

So when we make contact with the domain of being in the meditation practice, we are already, in a profound sense, beyond the scarring, beyond the isolation and fragmentation and suffering we may be experiencing.

Rarely are we in touch with who is doing the doing—or, put otherwise, with the world of being. To

Meditation is a way of being, not a technique. Meditation is not about trying to get anywhere else. It is about allowing yourself to be exactly where you are and as you are, and the world to be exactly as it is in this moment, as well.

Meditation is simply about being yourself and knowing something about who that is. It is about coming to realize that you are on a path whether you like it or not, namely, the path that is your life. Meditation may help us see that this path we call our life has direction; that it is always unfolding, moment by moment; and that what happens now, in this moment, influences what happens next.

we are only breathing now — the last breath is gone, the next one hasn't come yet — it is always a matter of this one. So it is an ideal anchor for our wayward attention. It keeps us in the present moment.

What does happen as we intentionally pay attention to our breathing is that we realize pretty quickly that we are

if you know anything about Buddhism, you will know that the most important point is to be yourself and not try to become anything that you are not already. Buddhism is fundamentally about being in touch with your own deepest nature and letting it flow out of you unimpeded.