Quotes About Being

Mortal fear is as crucial a thing to our lives as love. It cuts to the core of our being and shows us what we are. Will you step back and cover your eyes? Or will you have the strength to walk to the precipice and look out?

Sing to me a tune of patience; A dream borne of tenacity. Pervade unto my being, a cadence; Whisper to me the depths of eternity...

We talk about "doing" the will of God, but the will of God has much more to do with "being" than "doing.

Don't think it, in it.

Coleridge saw the active mind as one way in which human beings were made in God's image:

life is always where we are.

What is best about our lives -the moments when we are, as we would put it, at our happiest- is both pleasant and deeply unpleasant. Happiness is not a feeling; it is a way of being. If we focus on the feelings, we will miss the point.

Perfection in an asana is achieved when the effort to achieve it becomes effortless, and the infinite being within is reached.

I would go out under the stars and enter the smallness of being that was mine, and I would disappear into the emptiness within, and it seemed enormous.

And I, tiny being, drunk with the great starry void, likeness, image of mystery, felt myself a pure part of the abyss. I wheeled with the stars. My heart broke loose with the wind from "Pablo Neruda and his passions," The New Yorker (September 8, 2003)

To do is to be. -Descartes To be is to do. - Voltaire Do be do be do.

If Chess is the switch, " Loretta said, "how does he turn the Fog off?" Bea bit her lower lip. "I don't know—ask Chess." "How would I know?" I said. "You try being a switch.

There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.

Our task is to educate their (our students) whole being so they can face the future. We may not see the future, but they will and our job is to help them make something of it.

Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.

You ask me about the past, you ask me about the future, the only way to be happy is to be living right now.

We can only die in the future, I thought; right now we are always alive.

If you want to experience eternal illumination, put the past and the future out of your mind and remain within the present moment.

Within this moment, the only moment that exists, the past, present and future are contained.

Do not follow after the past; do not go forward to meet the future. Instead, just rest the mind naturally in the present awareness.

I am timeless being. I am free of desire or fear, because I do not remember the past or imagine the future.

People don't realize that now is all there ever is; there is no past or future except as memory or anticipation in your mind.

Mindfulness was experienced as not holding onto the past, the future, or 'nowness:' but relaxing into the immediacy of whatever was happening.

This moment in which you experience stillness is every moment. Don't let the mind seduce you into the past or future. Stay in the moment, and dare to consider that you can be free now.