Quotes About Being

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.' I

There is an ancient saying in India: 'We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.' I now understand my role in the universe. I see what I am. I'm no longer in the world. The world is in me.

Utopia, Shangri-la, Nirvana and Heaven on Earth are just names for a state of being, not a place of visiting. You enter the magic of life and begin to experience outright bliss daily once you reclaim the inherent power that lurks in your core. And when you don't postpone being grateful for even the tiniest of everyday graces. You'll become a magnet for miracles when you begin being a magician of sorts.

We have nothing to live but life itself.

Christians have inherited from Saint Augustine and from Plato the vision of this transient world as an icon of another and changeless order. They understand the sacred as a revelation in the here and now of the eternal sense of our being.

I look upon the flows of energy which are your real being - not the flesh that masks them.

The great burning blossom squats, flowing, upon the limb of the world, excreting the ash of the world, and being none of these things I have named and at the same time all of them, and this is reality, the Nameless.

There is only what is.

The first thing to say about that which is is simply: it is. As Parmenides in ancient Greece formulated the principle: what is, is. Or, in Ayn Rand's words: existence exists.

The branch of philosophy that studies existence is metaphysics.

Too often in our lives, accomplishment and doing overshadow growth and becoming. We frantically scurry around, trying to paint the picture with our activities, but our being must be settled before our doing. George MacDonald said it well: "He thought to gain a thing by a doing, when the very thing desired was a being."8

It was truly extraordinary how many men there were who felt the need of organizing something, of being important.

What is the use of being a writer of some note if one cannot treat oneself to such a luxury?

The passages on the orator and on propaganda were written by an expert. They are worth reading and will always be. They spring from the innermost being of a man born to nothing but to sway masses of men, and in spite of themselves emphasize the risks that a man runs in listening to a good speaker without taking the necessary precautions.

Satire exists for the purpose of killing the social being [for the sake of] the true individual, the real human being.

You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.

True freedom is always spiritual. It has something to do with your innermost being, which cannot be chained, handcuffed, or put into a jail.

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience.

You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.

It is only by grounding our awareness in the living sensation of our bodies that the 'I Am,' our real presence, can awaken.

You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience.

Life can only take place in the present moment. If we lose the present moment, we lose life.

You are not your body; you are the eye. When you see the spirit, you are free of the body. A human being is an eye – the rest is just flesh and bones. Whatever your eye sees, you are that.

And what is life? God manifested in the material plane. For it is in Him that we live and move and have our being.