Quotes About Being

Don't live in the past, don't ponder about the future, stay at the PRESENT moment NOW...always.

Meditation helps us to get out of our thoughts about the future and really be in the present moment.

On the stage it is always now; the personages are standing on that razor-edge, between the past and the future, which is the essential character of conscious being.

The false self lives mainly through memory and anticipation. Past and future are its main preoccupation.

Look, I am living. On what? Neither childhood nor future lessens . . . . Superabundant existence wells in my heart.

One seemed simply to be here, less an accumulation of moments than a single arrangement continuously gifted from some inaccessible future.

To-morrow comes, true copy of to-day,And empty shadow of what is to be;Yet cheated Hope on future still depends,And ends but only when our being ends.

Live. And live well. Breathe. Breathe in and breathe deeply. Be present. Do not be past. Do not be future. Be now.

I really don't look at my past and I really don't look too much to the future because I find that's sort of redundant. I really live right in the present. I live right in the now.

Your goals are constantly revised according to circumstance, but your purpose, your real reason for being, that supercedes everything.

The state of self-realization, as we call it, is not attaining something new or reaching some goal which is far away, but simply being that which you always are and which you always have been.

All goals apart from the means are illusions; becoming is a denial of being.

Believe me, there is no goal, nor a way to reach it. You are the way and the goal, there is nothing else to reach except yourself.

The misogyny that shapes every aspect of our civilization is the institutionalized form of male fear and hatred of what they have denied and therefore cannot know, cannot share: that wild country, the being of women.

If we practice love from moment to moment, from day to day and year to year, love becomes our life. With practice, love becomes what we breathe, think and do, a state of mind and a way of being.

Trust gets you killed, Love gets you hurt, Being real gets you hated...

Doing mode is not an enemy to be defeated, but is often an ally. Doing mode only becomes a "problem" when it volunteers for a task that it cannot do, such as "solving" a troubling emotion. When this happens, it pays to "shift gear" into "Being" mode. This is what mindfulness gives us: the ability to shift gears as we need to, rather than being permanently stuck in the same one.

Suddenly, his brow furrowed angrily as his nostrils detected a stench that offended the core of his being: orcs.

If there is a supreme being, he's crazy.

Consider the problem from the point of view of evil, evil being almost always pleasure's true and major charm considered thus, the crime must appear greater when perpetrated upon a being of your identical sort than when inflicted upon one which is not, and this once established, the delight automatically doubles.

What is the life that is going on in me at this moment?

You can be Eastern or Burmese or what have you, but the function of the body and the awareness of the body results in dance and you become a dancer, not just a human being.

Sometimes the long view is not what I need. I need this moment, without hostage to past or future, experienced for itself alone.

For a being as sophisticated as you are, it is baffling how little understanding you have of the composition of your own mind.