Quotes About Being

Presence is the key to freedom, so you can only be free now.

There are two kinds of freedom: one is the freedom from something, which is a reaction; and the other is not a reaction, it is "being free."

Freedom is the realization that it is sufficient to simply be a human being.

I have never been able to renounce the light, the pleasure of being, and the freedom in which I grew up.

No duty, however, binds us to these so-called laws, whose corrupting influence menaces what is noblest in our being.

The person must give himself an external sphere of freedom in order to have being as Idea.

It is through realizing loving presence as our very essence, through being that presence, that we discover true freedom.

Friendship is a miracle by which a person consents to view from a certain distance, without coming any nearer, the very being who is as necessary to him as food.

Today you are you! That is truer than true!

Keep being who you really are, no one can be you as good as yourself.

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

It's not about being who everyone else wants you to be, its about being yourself and finding someone who loves every bit of it.

Before you can be anything, you have to be yourself. That's the hardest thing to find.

Zen is not effort. Effort is tension, effort is work, effort is to achieve something. Zen is not something to achieve. You are already that. Just relax, relax so deeply that you become a revelation to yourself.

Let me be, was all I wanted. Be what I am, no matter how I am.

A person who embraces the desire to find wholeness within his own being, soon learns the importance of tending to relationships, caring for the planet, having compassion for humankind and accepting and tolerating differences among a diverse population of people.

Enjoy the Bliss of just Being. Without being dependent on anything!

One of the hardest challenges we face in life is to simply live in our own skin to just be right here, right now, regardless of where we are.

When there is truth in your being, God is always with you. When God is with you, there is no question of failure. Live your truth and not a life that others want you to live.

Being Indian is an attitude, a state of mind, a way of being in harmony with all things and all beings. It is allowing the heart to be the distributor of energy on this planet; to allow feelings and sensitivities to determine where energy goes; bringing aliveness up from the Earth and from the Sky, putting it in and giving it out from the heart.

Freedom is really not about possessing anything, but is actually being without; without hatred, without clinging, violence, greed, and so on. Losing everything you've managed to accumulate until what's always been there remains.

La felicidad, el verdadero gozo viene del Ser, no del tener. La felicidad es el resultado de conectar con eso que somos y descubrir que nuestra esencia no es material sino espiritual, y que por consiguiente es también inmortal. Por eso no solo tenemos Vida, sino que, y esto es lo esencial, también somos Vida.

Se es o no se es, no importa el día.

Ahí en el pecho, cerca de la garganta, ahí debe esta el alma.