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Quotes About Being

What was Aristotle's life?' Well, the answer lay in a single sentence: 'He was born, he thought, he died.' And all the rest is pure anecdote.
~ Martin Heidegger
We living beings, right down to crickets, ants, mosquitoes , and flies, all possess life that is without beginning or end.
~ Gautama Buddha
To maintain a powerful life force, forget yourself, forget about living and dying, and bring your full attention into this moment.
~ H. E Davey
Being one with life is being one with Now. You then realize that you don't live your life, but life lives you. Life is the dancer, and you are the dance.
~ Eckhart Tolle
The eternal life is given to those who live in the present.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
Joy and life exist nowhere but the present.
~ Maxine Hong Kingston
Nothing is more precious than being in the present moment. Fully alive, fully aware.
~ Nhat Hanh
Breathe and you dwell in the here and now, breath and you see impermanence is life.
~ Nhat Hanh
If you join a fight for social justice you may win or lose, but just by being part of the struggle, you win, and your life will be better for it.
~ Howard Zinn
Soul of all souls, life of all life - you are That. Seen and unseen, moving and unmoving - you are That.
~ Rumi
Life is a mess, Rose said. You can fix the mess human beings make, Rose said, But you can't fix the mess being human is.
~ Tom Spanbauer
I am a mediocre being, a bit cunning.
~ Renee Vivien
When you die, it will not be because you are sick, but because you were alive.
~ Seneca the Younger
When we're in our true being, the purpose of life is to feel that every moment is the purpose.
~ Adyashanti
When you realize you're alive, you can live life!
~ Chad Michael Murray
The meaning of life is found in openness to being and "being present" in full awareness.
~ Thomas Merton
Your true evolution is not what you do out there. That's secondary. Your true evolution is to do with the arising of awareness in you as you go about your life.
~ Eckhart Tolle
The art of life is to live in the present moment
~ Emmet Fox
We are thinking, willing, knowing, conscious centers of Life. We are surrounded by, immersed in, and there is flowing through us, a creative Something ... call It what you will.
~ Ernest Holmes
Meditation is existence. When we meditate, all we are simply doing is letting go and allowing ourselves to dissolve back into that which we really are. We are merging with life and light.
~ Frederick Lenz
The actuality of thought is life.
~ Aristotle
Childlike in faith means the daily acknowledgment of utter dependence and that I owe my life and being to another.
~ Brennan Manning
The nature of finite things is to have the seed of their passing-away as their essential being: the hour of their birth is the hour of their death.
~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre