Quotes About Being

The root of fear is the feeling of not being what you are.

There isn't any fear in existence itself, or any uncertainty, but living creates it.

I see myself as a creative being. My only fear is compromising my integrity. I guess that's a constant struggle.

Every human is a combination of spirit and matter. You can change the form but you can't change the essence.

Don't think of the past; the only thing that matters is the everlasting present

We are not human beings in search of a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings emersed in a human experience.

Our greatness is found not by chasing our dreams of a perfect life nor from running away from what scares us the most, but by anchoring ourselves deeply in this moment and every moment as it unfolds.

Simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being. Patient with both friends and enemies, you accord with the way things are. Compassionate toward yourself, you reconcile all beings in the world.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Imperfection is not our personal problem, it is a natural part of existing.

To think and to be fully alive are the same.

Dont put off living to next week, next month, next year or next decade. The only time youre ever living is in this moment.

We are always getting ready to live but never living.

What you say of the pride of giving life to an immortal soul is very fine dear, but I own I cannot enter into that: I think much more of our being like a cow or a dog at such moments: when our poor nature becomes so very animal and unecstatic

What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.

We live but a fraction of our lives

The fundamental desire of life is the desire to exist.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.

Life can be found only in the present moment. The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if we do not go back to ourselves in the present moment, we cannot be in touch with life

Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.

We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey.