Quotes About Being

I think there's probably a controlling intelligence in the universe, a being that decided the rules, such as E = mc2, and the value of pi. But that being isn't likely to care whether we sing its praise or not, I doubt whether its decisions can be manipulated by praying to a statue of the Virgin Mary, and I don't believe it will organize special treatment for you on account of what you have around your neck.

This gives the feeling, vis-à-vis time, that you are not moving through time, but rather time is moving through you (that is, through your awareness), with your being not moving at all. It's like sitting in a movie theater and, without moving from your seat, having the entire scenery move past you (and if the you is "headless," then in you).

Man lives on earth not once, but three times: the first stage of his life is continual sleep; the second, sleeping and waking by turns; the third, waking forever.

ALL you are actually ever aware of is this timeless Now.

Freewill means that the Universe never judges, never interferes with your own choices - and sees you as a being of equal creative power.

â—¦"At the deepest level of Being, you are one with all that is

I meditate So that I can inundate My entire being With the omnipotent Power of peace.

When you are present, when your attention is fully and intensely in the Now, Being can be felt, but it can never be understood mentally.

Gratitude is a miracle of its own recognition. It brings out a sense of appreciation and sincerity of a being.

Peace of mind is power of being.

The great thing about life-the most magnificent thing about being these sentient human beings-is that we have been given the power of choice.

While praying, listen to the words very carefully. When your heart is attentive, your entire being enters your prayer without your having to force it.

In contemplative prayer we seek to become the person we are called to be, not by thinking of God, but by being with God. Simply to be with God is to be drawn into being the person God calls us to be

Prayer is, for me, like that - a state of being together with God. It's not usually triggered by liturgy or special needs. It's more like what the Bible instructs us to do: Pray without ceasing.

I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here; and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end.

Friendship is a relationship, friendliness is a state of your being. You are simply friendly; to whom, that is not the point. . .

The world as it is is the world as God sees it, not as we see it. Our vision is distorted, not so much by the limits of finitude as by sin and ignorance. But the more we raise ourselves in the scale of being, the more will our ideas about God and the world correspond to reality.

And who'd date tell the lambs in spring, what fate the later seasons bring. Who'd tell the girl in the middle the pair the price she'll be just pay for just being there.

Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

Simply the thing that I am shall make me live.

Therefore am I still / A lover of the meadows and the woods, / And mountains; and of all that we behold / From this green earth; of all the mighty world / Of eye and ear, both what they half create / And what perceive; well pleased to recognize / In nature and the language of the sense, / The anchor of my purest thoughts, the nurse/ The guide, the guardian of my heart, and soul / Of all my moral being.

If the time should ever come when what is now called science, thus familiarised to men, shall be ready to put on, as it were, a form of flesh and blood, the Poet will lend his divine spirit to aid the transfiguration, and will welcome the Being thus produced, as a dear and genuine inmate of the house of man.

The happy Warrior... is he... who, with a natural instinct to discern what knowledge can perform, is diligent to learn; abides by this resolve, and stops not there, but makes his moral being his prime care.

Intuition? Yes, from experience I can say that's a kind of knowing that has no rationale, but just rises up your body, your mind, your whole being and lets you know.