Quotes About Being

Man is not the lord of beings. Man is the shepherd of Being.

Meditation is the only intentional, systematic human activity which at bottom is about not trying to improve yourself or get anywhere else, but simply to realize where you already are. Perhaps its value lies precisely in this. Maybe we all need to do one thing in our lives simply for its own sake.

Meditation is a way of being, not a technique.

Mindfulness reminds us that it is possible to shift from a doing mode to a being mode through the application of attention and awareness.

There really is no place to go in this moment. We are already here. Can we be here fully? There really is nothing do to. Can we let go into non-doing, into pure being? There really is nothing to attain, no special "state" or "feeling," because whatever you are experiencing in this moment is already special, already extraordinary, by virtue of the fact that it is being experienced.

But, meditation is not about feeling a certain way. It's about feeling the way you feel. It's not about making the mind empty or still

Here is Eliot, again from "Burnt Norton": Time past and time future Allow but a little consciousness. To be conscious is not to be in time Ã¢â'¬Â¦

but we're not being educated in how to be, only in how to accomplish. So it's all about acquisition, about getting stuff we don't have...As soon as you realize it's a thought pattern, you can write yourself a restraining order.

I don't want to know what time it is. I don't want to know what day it is or where I am. None of that matters.

There was a kind of liberation in jettisoning all thought of being a good person.

There are no metaphysics.

It is not a thing that you can imagine. It only is. After that, there can be no imagining.

I just couldn't be dead any longer.

It takes life to live life

Night after night, I looked up at those stars with a growing certainty that my role in this vast, magical universe was simply to be, and nothing about my being was predetermined or burdened with expectation unless I allowed others to make it that.

Time is living me.

Después reflexioné que todas las cosas le suceden a uno precisamente, precisamente ahora. Siglos de siglos y sólo en el presente ocurren los hechos; innumerables hombres en el aire, en la tierra y el mar, y todo lo que realmente pasa me pasa a mí...

El tiempo está viviéndome. (Jactancia de quietud - Luna de enfrente)

Time is the substance I am made of. Time is a river that carries me away, but I am the river

In its world, there are no names, nor past, nor future, only the sureness of the present moment.

Time is the substance of which I am

No, the contrary of acedia is not the spirit of work in the sense of the work of every day, of earning one's living; it is man's happy and cheerful affirmation of his own being, his acquiescence in the world and in God—which is to say love. Love that certainly brings a particular freshness and readiness to work along with it, but that no one with the least experience could conceivably confuse with the tense activity of the fanatical "worker".

When you realize that eternity is right here now, that it is within your possibility to experience the eternity of your own truth and being, then you grasp the following: That which you are was never born and will never die. . . . (90)

Deep down inside, we don't seek the meaning of life, but the experience of being alive.