Quotes About Being

If there is a supreme being, he's crazy.

Isn't this enough? Just this world? Just THIS?

If the 'I am the doer' idea goes, then only I Am remains and that 'I Am' has no religion.

Religion is rather the attempt to express the complete reality of goodness through every aspect of our being.

The gods of the realms are many and varied -- or they are the many and varied names and identities tagged onto the same being. I know not -- and care not -- which.

Religion is being and becoming. Religion is the manifestation of the Divinity already in man.

letting be is as important as mastering. Our tradition has encouraged us to be effective, to make or fabricate but not to let be born or let be.

Men are but men; we did not make ourselves.

This is the bud of being, the dim dawn, The twilight of our day, the vestibule; Life's theatre as yet is shut, and death, Strong death, alone can heave the massy bar, This gross impediment of clay remove, And make us embryos of existence free.

There isn't any fear in existence itself, or any uncertainty, but living creates it.

You're not human. You're a being who is incapable of social intercourse. You're nothing but a creature, non-human and somehow strangely pathetic.

I have lived as I am! Right now I am everything that I am!

God is always present. The question is, how present are we?

The most wonderful thing in life is to be delirious and the most wonderful kind of delirium is being in love.

Human dynamism cannot be manipulated or switched on like that of a machine. It cannot be engineered or programmed. Human beings are created, not constructed – that is why they love to create their own reality. Human action cannot be explained by the laws of thermodynamics or by that of molecular biology. The wellspring of human action comes from the human spirit. The dwelling space of this spirit is our being.

If the does not come today he exists, he breathes this air and walks these streets.

Life is not about control. It's not about getting. It's not about having. It's not about knowing. It's not even about being. Life is eternal, perpetual becoming, or it is nothing. Becoming is not a thing to be known, commanded, or controlled. It is a magnificent, mysterious odyssey to be experienced.

In my definition of consciousness, consciousness is the same thing as life. What wisdom traditions also call spirit.

We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

Each of us is here to discover our true selves; that essentially we are spiritual beings who have taken manifestation in physical form; that we're not human beings that have occasional spiritual experiences, that we're spiritual beings that have occasional human experiences

Never forget your real identity. You are a luminous conscious stardust being forged in the crucible of cosmic fire.

You must learn to get in touch with the innermost essence of your being. This true essence is beyond the ego. It is fearless; it is free; it is immune to criticism; it does not fear any challenge. It is beneath no one, superior to no one, and full of magic, mystery, and

But the ancient sages of India taught that fear was born of duality; when human beings realized that they were no longer part of God, they immediately became afraid of what might happen to them. In

The mystery of Buddha's cure is this: What you seek you already are.