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Quotes About Being

Life gives you plenty of time to do whatever you want to do if you stay in the present moment.
~ Deepak Chopra
I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.
~ Katharine Hepburn
Concentrate the mind on the present moment.
~ Gautama Buddha
Give your real being a chance to shape your life. You will not regret it.
~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
The formless dimension of life is this moment. This moment is timeless and formless - the eternal itself.
~ Eckhart Tolle
The real essentials of life - compassion, kindness, good will, forgiveness - are what is fundamental to living as a true human being.
~ Eknath Easwaran
Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.
~ Alan Watts
If you miss the moment, you miss your life.
~ John Daido Loori
You are only here now; you're only alive in this moment.
~ Jon Kabat-Zinn
You are -- your life, and nothing else.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit
Time is the horizontal dimension of life, the surface layer of reality. Then there is the vertical dimension of depth, accessible only through the portal of the present moment.
~ Eckhart Tolle
Well here you are, there it is, THIS is what it's all about.
~ Kurt Vonnegut
If you abandon the present moment, you cannot live the moments of your daily life deeply.
~ Nhat Hanh
The point of life is not to get anywhere-it is to notice that you are, and have always been, already there.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
They both listened silently to the water, which to them was not just water, but the voice of life, the voice of Being, the voice of perpetual Becoming.
~ Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
Now is all you ever have. There never is anything else. So, you might as well make the now your friend. Otherwise, you are out of alignment with life itself.
~ Eckhart Tolle
By my existence I am nothing more than an empty place, an outline,that is reserved within being in general. Given with it, though, is the duty to fill in this empty place. That is my life.
~ Georg Simmel
You have an appointment with life, an appointment that is in the here and now.
~ Nhat Hanh
I think i'm just breathing, that's all. And there's a difference between breathing and being alive.
~ John Boyne
Yoga is about how you live your life all of the time.
~ Erich Schiffmann
Yoga is not a means to get SOMEWHERE as if you were not SOMEWHERE already. It is your direct and intimate participation with Life.
~ Mark Whitwell
Life is now. There was never a time when your life was not now, nor will there ever be.
~ Eckhart Tolle
Life is real only then, when "I am".
~ G. I. Gurdjieff