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Quotes About Being

I thought God cannot be Fullness of Being. For Life is Motion.----- 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.
~ Robert Penn Warren
Which is nonsense, for whatever you live is Life. That
~ Robert Penn Warren
The past cannot remember the past. The future cannot generate the future. The cutting edge of this instant right here and now is always nothing less than the totality of everything there is.
~ Robert Pirsig
Emotion shook Rilla from head to foot. Joy—happiness—sorrow—fear—every passion that had wrung her heart in those four long years seemed to surge up in her soul for a moment as the deeps of being were stirred. She had tried to speak; at first voice would not come. Then—Yeth, said Rilla.
~ L.M. Montgomery
Strange. I would have thought that humor was an aspect of intelligence. No. Humor is associated with an interrupted defense mechanism. All the same— Speaker, no sapient being ever interrupts a defense mechanism.
~ Larry Niven
The way to get from point A to point B is really to be at A.
~ Larry Rosenberg
Always performing who they are instead of being it
~ Laura Florand
Reading was not a fallback position for her but an ideal state of being.
~ Laura Lippman
There are, of course, an infinite number of places where one is not, yet only one place where one actually is.
~ Laura Lippman
All you really have...is now.
~ Laura Wiess
I'd call it a gift, at least until I had to take Nicky home with me, and then I was going to have some explaining to do. He followed me home, can I keep him? had never worked for puppies when I was a child, and it seemed totally inadequate for a whole human being. The
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
Be - don't try to become. Being is enlightenment, becoming is ignorance.
~ Rajneesh
Nothing that comes and goes is you. 'I am bored.' Who knows this? 'I am angry, sad, afraid.' Who knows this? You are the knowing, not the condition that is known.
~ Eckhart Tolle
Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
I can't wait for the day I learn to live in the now!
~ Dana Gould
Being is the great explainer.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Nothing is constant but change! All existence is a perpetual flux of "being and becoming!" That is the broad lesson of the evolution of the world.
~ Ernst Haeckel
Our Being is Becoming, not stasis. Our Science is Utopia, our Reality is Eros, our Desire is Revolution.
~ Murray Bookchin
We ourselves are the entities to be analyzed.
~ Martin Heidegger
Evolution is no linear family tree, but change in the single multidimensional being that has grown to cover the entire surface of Earth.
~ Lynn Margulis, What Is Life?
Metaphysics is a science.
~ Gabriel Marcel
Gratefulness is not just saying "thank you." It's acting. It is being yourself. A mother is grateful, shows gratefulness by mothering, a scientist by doing science.
~ David Steindl-Rast
Yoga, an ancient but perfect science, deals with the evolution of humanity. This evolution includes all aspects of one's being, from bodily health to self-realization.
~ B.K.S. Iyengar
This moment there is all that will ever be or has ever been. All the events of all of our lives are going-on simultaneously. There is no beginning and there is no ending. There's only this moment.
~ Frederick Lenz