Quotes About Being

Once you abandon the idea of a personal baseline, it becomes possible to think of emotional suffering as relapse—instead of something to be expected from an individual's way of being in the world.

Wenn man geboren wird, muss man leben.

all life is conscious, but it is not conscious of being conscious

Failure is authentic, and because it's authentic, it's real and genuine, and because of that, it's a pure state of being.

this instant right here and now is always nothing less than the totality of everything there is." —Robert Pirsig

The past cannot remember the past. The future can't 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

Health is not a physical accomplishment but the manifestation of our awareness of who we are and integrity in living out of that knowledge.

If you'd never been born, then you might be an Isn't! An Isn't has no fun at all. No, he disn't.

A Wasn't just isn't. He just isn't present. But you… You ARE YOU! And, now isn't that pleasant!

I am not my body. My body is nothing without me.

Life is consciousness.

Sin is not wrong doing, it is wrong BEING, deliberate and emphatic independence of God.

Let the clock and the earth do their own thing... Let the comings and goings of life continue... But YOU stay HERE and NOW. This exercise is to bring you to the Eternal Present where it all is.

Everything in art must spring from the movement of our whole life-stream, of our whole being - including the unconscious.

I don't have a life-style, I have a life.

People sacrifice the present for the future. But life is available only in the present. That is why we should walk in such a way that every step can bring us to the here and the now.

This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.

Life is available only in the present moment.

If you have life in you, you have access to the secrets of the ages, for the truth of the universe resides in each and every human being.

When I had this concept ["You're All That"] that I'm not just a body with a mind, that I'm a spirit being, I'm a synergistically trying being, when I understood that, life began to come into focus.

If there was a little more light and truth in the world through one human being, his life has had meaning.

If you're too in your head and you're not in the moment, life passes you by.

Our thoughts are always pulling us into the future or the past, away from the present. But it is in the present moment that we find Spirit, our essential being and the force that animates all life.

Just watching an animal closely can take you out of your mind and bring you into the present moment, which is where the animal lives all the time - surrendered to life.