Quotes About Being

You have to be alive in order to live.

The pain is necessary to find the power of being.

I believe and therefore I am.

The opinions of souls are their state of being.

The opinions of souls are their state of being. Dwell on your own sacred thoughts.

Love is a state of Being. Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form.

Your great power lies not on the surface, but deep within your being.

mindfulness - it isn't a trick or a gimmick. It's being present in the moment. When I'm with you, I'm with you. Right now. That's all. No more and no less.

For this day only is ours, we are dead to yesterday, and we are not yet born to the morrow.

If man were to live in a state of nature, unconnected with other individuals, there would be no occasion for any other laws, than the law of nature, and the law of God. Neither could any other law possibly exist; for a law always supposes some superior who is to make it; and in a state of nature we are all equal, without any other superior but him who is the author of our being.

But if you don't have the name of a thing, it is still the thing.

Become aware that creation in your life occurs only in the present moment.

that core essence that dwells beyond our chattering mind.

Love within my being. You lived with me, breath of my breath, Being in my being, nor left my side; But now the wheel of Time has turned And you are gone – no joys abide. You

And I saw surfing that day - by Leslie Wong, among others - that made my chest hurt: long moments of grace under pressure that felt etched deep in my being: what I wanted, somehow, more than anything else. That night, while my family slept, I lay awake on the bamboo-framed couch, heart pounding with residual adrenaline, listening restlessly to the rain.

I Think, Therefore, You Are

Man is, so to speak, an endless and infinitely varied repetition: and if we know what one man feels, we so far know what a thousand feel in the sanctuary of their being. Our feeling of general humanity is at once an aggregate of a thousand different truths, and it is also the same truth a thousand times told.

I could yet always feel that it was infinitely better to be than not to be. THE

The teacher of history's work should be, ideally, not simply a description of past cultures, but a performance of the culture in which we live and are increasingly taking our being.

That shoreline where the island of knowing meets the unfathomable sea of our own being is the landscape of myth.

To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one's being added to that being.

Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make use of a very small portion of their possible consciousness, and of their soul's resources in general, much like a man who, out of his whole bodily organism, should get into a habit of using and moving only his lttle finger. Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.

It's quite uncanny what one sets in motion by being oneself.

It was as if the thing that was N'Kari was merely a finger-puppet on the end of a claw that had been poked through the walls of reality by some much greater being.