Quotes About Being

The grace of being is gift of baptism by washing in water. And in Spirit of Christ Jesus.

Soul or Intelligence destined to possess the sense of Identity.

Just as the sun is infinitely brighter than a candle flame, there is infinitely more intelligence in Being than in your mind

Nature: The unseen intelligence which loved us into being, and is disposing of us by the same token

But the jiva [living being] is endowed with ego and his knowledge is limited, whereas Ishwar is without ego and is omniscient.

I know that I exist; the question is, What is this 'I' that 'I' know.

True knowledge is not attained by thinking. It is what you are; it is what you become.

When mind knows, we call it knowledge. When heart knows, we call it love. And when being knows, we call it meditation.

Presence is a noun, not a verb; it is a state of being, not doing. States of being are not highly valued in a culture that places a high priority on doing. Yet, true presence or "being with" another person carries with it a silent power.

You want me to talk about love, to give you a hold, something to feel, to admire or obtain. I will not give you a straw to grasp, and in this emptiness you will be taken by yourself. You are love so don't try to be a lover.

When you act you are one with the action, it is only afterwards that the ego appropriates the act from which it was absent, and says "I have done this." At the moment of acting there is only acting, without an actor.

I am of no particular race. I am of the human race, a man at large in the human world, preparing a new race. I am of no specific region. I am of earth. I am of no particular class. I am of the human class, preparing a new class. I am neither male nor female nor in-between. I am of sex, with male differentiations. I am of no special field. I am of the field of being.

Could it be, God forbid, that nationality is only a superficial, insignificant layer of the onion that is your being? What would you think of the man who would say of himself 'I am an overcoat' just because he happened to be wearing one?

Mais puisque je ne peux pas m'arracher à l'objectivité qui m'écrase, ni à la subjectivité qui m'exile, puisqu'il ne m'est pas possible de m'élever jusqu'à l'être, ni de tomber dans le néant, il faut que j'écoute. Il faut que je regarde autour de moi plus que jamais… Le monde… Mon semblable… Mon frère… »

To free "God" from his quotation marks would require nothing less than to free him from metaphysics, hence from the Being of beings.

When I'm acting, I'm two beings. There's the one monitoring the distance between myself and the camera, making sure I hit my marks, and there is the one driven by this inner fire, this delicious fear.

Existence precedes and rules essence.

One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life.

We mean that man first of all exists, encounters himself, surges up in the world – and defines himself afterwards.

You are -- your life, and nothing else.

My thought is me: that's why I can't stop. I exist because I think… and I can't stop myself from thinking. At this very moment - it's frightful - if I exist, it is because I am horrified at existing. I am the one who pulls myself from the nothingness to which I aspire.

Quoting Father Seraphim: Our life hangs only by a breath. It is the thread that links you to the Father, the Source, which brought you into being. Be conscious of this thread, and go where you will. (27)

What do you know? The answer is: I Am.

In some way, my saying that I'm not here now feels sort of like an acknowledgment that I am here now, only feeling that I'm not.