Quotes About Being

There's much more in any given moment than we usually perceive, and that we ourselves are much more than we usually perceive. When you know that, part of you can stand outside the drama of your life.

Prolong not the past Invite not the future Do not alter your innate wakefulness Fear not appearances There in nothing more than this

Now is now. Are you going to be here or not?

Don't think about the past. Just be here now.

Aldous Huxley reminds us, "The body is always in time, the spirit is always timeless and the psyche is an amphibious creature compelled by the laws of man's being to associate itself to some extent with its body, but capable, if it so desires, of experiencing and being identified with its spirit.

You can stay in touch with your soul by dwelling in the moment.

I began to live in love as a state of being. It was as if love was no longer a verb with an object. In that state, I simply became a loving being, an emitter of love. It's a two-way street: as you become a loving being, the Universe is loving you. You are at home in the universe. hOMe, hOMe on the range.

It's all right now But later?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . forget it baby That's later Now is Now Are you going to be here Or not? It's as simple as that!

Ask yourself: Where am I? Answer: Here. Ask yourself: What time is it? Answer: Now. Say it until you can hear it.

Did I ever tell you about the time that Tim and I . . ." And he'd say, "Don't think about the past. Just be here now." Silence. And I'd say, "How long do you think we're going to be on this trip?" And he'd say, "Don't think about the future. Just be here now." I'd say, "You know, I really feel crumby, my hips are hurting . . .

Don't think about the future. Just be here now.

but who's minding the store?" When I could finally focus on the question, I realized that although everything by which I knew myself, even my body and this life itself, was gone, still I was fully aware!

Home is where the heart is. Home is the quality of presence. It's the quality of being. Home is always here.

I am the thought I.

And it all just is, but without form. Because in order to know form, we have to be separate from it.

To be a human being is to be one who is fashioned in the image of God, who is the point of reference in all relationships.

I am convinced, in the words of C. S. Lewis—who in my estimation is probably the greatest Christian apologist in recent memory—that the question of being an apologist is not so much whether you use an apologetic in answering someone's question, but whether the apologetic you already use is a good one.

And the odd thing in Dad's voice was the sound truth makes being said.

manifestation of the horrendous power that is of all creation. The ends of things are always painful. But pain is part of there being a world at all.

Reason has to do with finding the ground of being and the fundamental structuring of order of the universe.

MOYERS: A poem? CAMPBELL: I mean a vocabulary in the form not of words but of acts and adventures, which connotes something transcendent of the action here, so that you always feel in accord with the universal being.

We can never cease to be ourselves.

The true Razumov had his being in the willed, in the determined future—in that future menaced by the lawlessness of autocracy—for autocracy knows no law—and the lawlessness of revolution.

Is any man so foolish as to fear change, to which all things that once were not owe their being?