Quotes About Being

Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present.

I try to just stay in the present moment as much as possible.

I don't like to look into the future. I just want to stay in the present moment.

It was clear to me that the forms of consciousness of our inherited and acquired historical education - aesthetic consciousness and historical consciousness - presented alienated forms of our true historical being.

It can be tough to turn things down, but as an actor, being in demand is a nice problem to have.

You can't deny who you are, so you might as well be yourself in the most authentic way.

I was drawn to the story of Myeol-mang and Dong-kyeong. I wanted to understand and sympathize with the character Myeol-mang, whose being is the reason for all the destruction.

The fact that we're alive means we should live,

We are worthy simply because we exist.

Whenever you have a clash of opposites in your being and neither will give way to the other (the bush will not be consumed and the fire will not stop), you can be certain that God is present. We dislike this experience intensely and avoid it at any cost; but if we can endure it, the conflict-without-resolution is a direct experience of God. A

Each of us is a microcosm in which the universal process actualizes itself.

Our longing for community seems to be a part of the image of the One Who made us, a part of the divine image whispered into us when we were whispered into being in the first place.

Perhaps God gives us a physical body so that every time we change our mind, we won't be someone else.

It is the fancy of every mortal that being cradled in the arms of mortality is a safe place for the time being.

God, he asserted, was not contained in any Book, but was a Voice, which every human being could hear (and which most of us chose to ignore). The common name of that voice was Conscience; but it was a God by any reasonable definition, Stepney claimed.

Most human restlessness and pain is the result of the Spirit's incessant demand that humans live from the deepest part of their being.

No se vive de lo que debería ser, sino de lo que es» —citó Elayne—

The Dark One was not a being. It was the darkness between. Between lights, between moments, between eyeblinks.

Wish" and "want" trip the feet, but "is" makes the path smoother.

The past cannot remember the past. The future can't generate the future. The cutting edge of this instant right here and now is always nothing less than the totality of everything there is.

But apart from a personality what is there? Some bones and flesh. A collection of legal statistics, perhaps, but surely no person.

He isn't so interested in what things mean as in what they are.

For Life is Motion toward Knowledge. If God is Complete Knowledge then He is Complete Non-Motion, which is Non-Life, which is Death. Therefore, if there is such a God of Fullness of Being, we would worship Death, the Father.