Quotes About Being

The Thou encounters me by grace -- it cannot be found by seeking. But that I speak the basic word to it is a deed of my whole being, is my essential deed.

The human person, the human being, is not just an object among objects, not just a thing in the world. The human being is a being-in-the-world, a being-with-others, a being-for-others.

Feeling one "has"; love occurs.

As long as love is "blind" - that is, as long as it does not see a whole being - it does not yet truly stand under the basic word of relation. Hatred remains blind by its very nature; one can hate only part of a being.

Creation does not merely take place once in the beginning but also at every moment throughout the whole of time.

True beings are lived in the present, the life of objects is lived in the past.

The third (sphere in which the world of relation arises): Life with spiritual beings. Here the relations is wrapped in a cloud but reveals itself, it lacks but creates language. We hear no You and yet addressed; we answer - creating, thinking, acting: with our being we speak the basic word, unable to say You with our mouth. Bt how can we incorporate into the world of the basic word that lies outside language?

The basic word I-You can only be spoken with one's whole being.

Feelings dwell in man; but man dwells in his love. That is no metaphor, but the actual truth. Love does not cling to the I in such a way as to have the Thou only for its " content," its object; but love is between I and Thou. The man who does not know this, with his very being know this, does not know love; even though he ascribes to it the feelings he lives through, experiences, enjoys, and expresses.

Language is the house of the truth of Being.

Everyone is the other and no one is himself.

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?

Thus "phenomenology" means ???????????? ?? ????????? -- to let that which shows itself be seen from itself in the very way in which it shows itself from itself.

The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.

Temporality temporalizes as a future which makes present in the process of having been.

The poets are in the vanguard of a changed conception of Being.

the more we realize we are one with God the more we become ourselves, just as we are, just as we were created to be.

There will not be, nor arise in us, the righteousness of God, unless our own righteousness falls and perishes utterly. We do not rise unless we who are standing badly have first fallen. Thus altogether the being, holiness, truth, goodness, life of God, etc., are not in us, unless in the presence of God we first become nothing, profane, lying, evil, dead. Otherwise the righteousness of God would be mocked, and Christ would have died in vain.

There is just reality as it is: a unified being of infinite awareness that is playing with itself as an expression of itself. Everything and everyone in all places and times is merely God interacting with itself, and It is You.

receiving knowledge means truly to come into being, to be manifested, whereas those who remain in error do not really exist at all

For whatever has no root has no fruit, and although thinking, "I have come into being," it will perish by itself. So whatever does not exist will never exist.

And she was terribly aware that she was alive. Not just living and breathing, but ...alive.

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.