Quotes About Being

God is always present. We're the ones who show up.

But when I'm talking about God, I'm talking about the divine being who can't be located tangibly with the kind of evidence that the rationalism of reductionism demands in the same way that you cannot be located in your eyelashes or spine or shoulder.

You are something the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is something that the whole ocean is doing. —Alan Watts

I AM is less noun, more verb. Less a destination and more a direction.

He grokked that this was one of the critical cusps in the growth of a being wherein contemplation must bring forth right action in order to permit further growth. He acted.

Eh? I don't grok your answer." Mike hesitated. "I will try. But words are . . . are not . . . rightly. Not 'putting.' Not 'mading.' A nowing, World is. World was. World shall be. Now." " 'As it was in the beginning, so it is now and ever shall be, World without end—

If you want to affect your environment, don't get lost in your activism. Stop for a moment and make a mandorla. Don't just do — be something.

Our skin, our hair, and our eyes are simply the shell that surrounds our soul, and our soul is who we are. What counts is on the inside.

But all We did that day was mingle great and small Footprints in summer dust as if we drew The figure of our being less than two But more than one as yet.

Religion humanizes this universe, makes us feel important and loved. We are not animals governed by uncontrollable drives, animals that die for no apparent reason, but creatures made in the image of supreme being

Do you know what makes a human being decent? Fear. And therein lies the problem. None of you has anything left to fear anymore.

But the flip side of being spared was the agony of wondering who hadn't.

The only thing worse than starting a plague on purpose was being stupid enough to start it by accident.

And so: change. The inexorable emergence of difference in time. Becoming. One of the fundamental mysteries. Charlie hated it. He liked being; he hated becoming.

This moment itself is all we ever live in.

Only this moment, always. We never get to change the past. We never get to know the future. No reason to wish for one place rather than another; no reason to say I wish I were home, or I wish I were in an exotic new place that is not my home. They will all be the same as this place. Here the experience of existing comes clear. This world is our body. Now

Then I began, as though I had never seen my shoes before, to study their expression, their mimelike movements when I moved my toes, their shape, and the worn-out leather they had; and I discovered that their wrinkles and their white seams gave them an expression, provided them with a face. Something of my own being had gone over into these shoes, they struck me as being a ghost of my I, a breathing part of myself. . . .

It is a splendid thing to exist sometimes.

A creature of fire she was, a daughter of nature. And her inmost being re-echoed still to the strains of a ravishing waltz.

The world circles us with light. Yert during every moment of life we are entirely lit from within. - The Tattooed Monk

Our relationship with nature is more one of being than having. We are nature: we do not have nature.

There is no beyond, there is only here, the infinitely small, infinitely great and utterly demanding present.

Religion is the human attitude towards a sacred order that includes within it all being-human or otherwise-i.e., belief in a cosmos, the meaning of which both includes and transcends man.

Human beings are co-partners with deity in the project of being. This is the basis of all magic.