Quotes About Being

Identity based on what we have is aham, not atma.

What's left after what one isn't is taken away is what one is.

It is God's earth out of which man is taken. From it he has his body. His body belongs to his essential being. Man's body is not his prison, his shell his exterior, but man himself. Man does not "have" a body; he does not "have" a soul; rather he "is" body and soul. Man in the beginning is really his body. He is one. He is his body, as Christ is completely his body, as the Church is the body of Christ

Life is not a thing, an essence, or a concept,[10] but a person—more specifically, a particular and unique person.

One doesn't cling anxiously to life, but neither does one throw it lightly away. One is content with measured time and does not attribute eternity to earthly things. One leaves to death the limited right that it still has. But one expects the new human being and the new world only frombeyond death, from the power that has conquered death.

To be conformed to the one who has become human—that is what being really human means.[77.]

Love is not concerned with a person's accomplishments, it is a response to a person's being: This is why a typical word of love is to say: I love you, because you are as you are.

Love alone brings a human being to full awareness of personal existence. For it is in love alone that man finds room enough to be what he is.

the Liturgy is accomplished faith, lived faith. It plunges us into the full reality of the truth of faith; it creates the spiritual space in which the world of faith or, more correctly, the world disclosed by faith penetrates every pore of our being, in which we breathe the supernatural air; it brings us to the ultimate reality which, in the holy Sacrifice of the Mass and in the sacraments, we even touch ontologically.

time is no longer linear it's more like a chord that flashes in and out of being

There is no meaning if meaning is not shared, and not because there would be an ultimate or first signification that all beings have in common, but because meaning is itself the sharing of Being.

The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple.

As you walk and eat and travel, be where you are. Otherwise you will miss most of your life.

All there is in your life is the eternal now moment - and your experience of this moment is created by the programming in your head.

Getting cancer can become the beginning of living. The search for one's own being, the discovery of the life one needs to live, can be one of the strongest weapons against disease.

Life is in the here and now. Either we meet it, we live it-or we miss it.

The life and death of a human being is so exquisitely calibrated as to automatically produce union with Spirit.

I don't live in the present, I Am The Present.

I am not my thoughts, emotions, sense perceptions, and experiences. I am not the content of my life. I am Life. I am the space in which all things happen. I am consciousness. I am the Now. I Am.

I am a human being, not a human doing. Don't equate your self-worth with how well you do things in life. You aren't what you do. If you are what you do, then when you don't . . , you aren't.

The destination of life is this eternal moment.

You get lost because you think there is somewhere to go. If you give up believing in a goal or a destination, then you cannot get lost. In the present moment, there is no destination.

In life, what more can you ask for than to be real?

Only a warrior can survive the path of knowledge because the art of the warrior is to balance the pain of being a man with the wonder of being a man.