Quotes About Being

By abstaining from all definite content, whether as formal logic and theory of science or as the legend of Being beyond all beings, philosophy declared its bankruptcy regarding concrete social goals.

Being an electronic genius was a reputation I had, maybe being even into math and science almost exclusively and not wanting to be in the other normal parts of the world.

Social Science … led us to the fallacy that, since all men have their being in culture and as a result of culture, they owe a debt to that culture which even a lifetime of altruism could not repay.

Non cogitant, ergo non sunt.

Theoretical and experimental physicists are now studying nothing at all-the vacuum. But that nothingness contains all of being.

Change in society is of secondary importance; that will come about naturally, inevitably, when you as a human being bring about the change in yourself.

Life is simply the reification of the process of living.

Ser dos significa aceptar un futuro indeteminado

When will you begin to exist then? When will you begin to be here, to live? Regardless

Whatever is happening at this moment, that is your life. The future is not your life; it never arrives. What is actually here is always only this moment.

not so much looking for the shape as being available to any shape that may be summoning itself through me from the self not mine but ours.

There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord. Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern. Nothing

All that is left to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.

The plea is not to obey what He wills but to do what He is.

There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord. Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.

Standing face to face with the world, we often sense a spirit which surpasses our ability to comprehend. The world is too much for us. It is crammed with marvel. The glory is not an exception but an aura that lies about all being, a spiritual setting of reality.

It is all about numbers. It is all about sequence. It's the mathematic logic of being alive. If everything kept to its normal progression, we would live with the sadness—cry and then walk—but what really breaks us the cleanest are the losses that happen out of order.

The most uncouth of our afflictions is to despise our being. Rather than trying to cut ourselves in two, we should cease waging civil war on our perplexing physical envelopes and learn to accept them as unalterable facts of our condition; neither so terrible, nor so humiliating.

El Amor, que es lo que me creó, es lo que soy.

Grace is the state of being in which we are loved unconditionally and all that we need is provided for us by the benevolent hand of God.

True relaxation was a state of being that had been virtually unknown to him since childhood. The best that could be said of it was that when he felt relatively safe, he entered a condition of lenient wariness.

Do not weep. Being is enough. There, that is all. I am done...

Instead of René Descartes' famous "Cogito ergo sum" (I think, therefore I am), I propose "Communico ergo sum," (I communicate, therefore I exist") as the philosophical proof of man's existence.

Not in imagined futures, Or in remembered pasts, But only here and only now Will you find a peace that lasts.