Quotes About Being

God expresses God, and that expression appears as you.

The kingdom of God is within us; the whole of the Godhead is to be found within our individual being, not in holy mountains nor yet in the temple at Jerusalem, but within us.

This listening is the art of meditation, in the learning of which we come to a place of transition where truth leaves the mind and enters the heart. In other words, there is no longer merely an intellectual knowledge about truth; but truth becomes a living thing within our being.

You have to turn to that within-ness in the deepest kind of humility, not with any belief at all that you are the child of God. Of course you are in your essence, but so was the prodigal son when he was eating with the swine. He was still the son of the king, heir to everything, and that didn't do him much good. Neither does our heirship in Christ do us much good until by contact with this center within our own being we re-establish that oneness.

Ideas will never give you what you want. You want the simplicity of being. The peace that surpasses understanding. The reality of what is.

Ideas will never give you what you want. You want the simplicity of being. The peace that surpasses understanding. The reality of what is.   What you seek is unavoidable. What you seek is what is. Already. This.

How can I not be? How can you not be? We are after all. –– Not be! What does that mean? It is only a word, a mere sound, which stirs nothing in me.

What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Aber ich habe sie gehabt, ich habe das Herz gefühlt, die große Seele, in deren Gegenwart ich mir schien mehr zu sein, als ich war, weil ich alles war, was ich sein konnte.

Live the life you're living and try and stay who you are

The solution of the problem of life is life itself. Life is not attained by reason and analysis but first of all by living.

Joy is the triumph of life; it is the sign that we are living our true life as spiritual beings.

There is no greater privilege in life than being yourself.

But what if Shakespeare? and Hamlet? were asking the wrong question? What if the real question is not whether to be, but how to be?

There is no why. We are. Life is beyond reason.

There will never be a time when your life is not this moment.

O great creator of being grant us one more hour to perform our art and perfect our lives.

I've watched those shows my whole life - being on one is like a dream. It's hard to balance that dream with the fact that this is the Edie I've known my whole life.

Plots and character don't make life. Life is here and now, anytime you say the word, anytime you let her rip.

Elphaba looked like something between an animal and an Animal, like something more than life but not quite Life.

No matter what they wish for, no matter how far they go, people can never be anything but themselves. That's all.

Time is the supreme illusion. It is but the inner prism by which we decompose being and life, the mode under which we perceive successively what is simultaneous in idea.

Memory is what you did. Life is what you're doing.

Living in the present moment creates the experience of eternity.