Quotes About Being

Consciousness is not a thing that exists, but an event that occurs.

In meditation, we free ourselves from attachment to that conceptualization and experience the fundamental unity of the elements which comprise our being.

It's really not about doing, it's more about being. You might find it relaxing," said Pooh. "I know I do.

Mindfulness also means experiencing the present moment without self-conscious judgment.

That is what is meant by the proposition omne ens est verum (everything that is, is true)—though we have almost ceased to understand it—and by the complementary proposition that being and truth are interchangeable concepts. (What does truth mean, where things are concerned, the truth of things? "A thing is true" means: it is known and knowable, known to the absolute spirit, knowable to the spirit that is not absolute.

There are some who believe the poem can be a guide, a Virgil, can be a window into a way of being. Do I believe this? Does anyone believe this anymore?

His reason and his logic," said his friend James Matheny, "swallowed up all his being.

There is something female about being dead.

I am the presence standing here at this juncture of Time & Space- who else?

First principle of life: Breathe.

To destroy evil we must destroy the being which evil inhabits, even if it is ourselves.

We must be undone in order to do ourselves: we must be part of a larger social fabric of existence in order to create who we are.

Precisely because a living being may die, it is necessary to care for that being so that it may live. Only under conditions in which the loss would matter does the value of the life appear. Thus, grievability is a presupposition for the life that matters.

El género es] la estilización repetida del cuerpo, una sucesión de acciones repetidas –dentro de un marco regulador muy estricto– que se inmoviliza con el tiempo para crear la apariencia de sustancia, de una especie natural de ser.

not everything has to have a point, some things just are.

We are Thinking Substance, and thinking substance always takes the form of that which it thinks about.

The Original Intelligent Substance is in a human being, moving toward health — and it is pressing upon him from every side. The human being lives, moves, and has his being in a limitless ocean of health-power, and he uses this power according to his faith. If he appropriates it and applies it to himself it is all his, and if he unifies himself with it by unquestioning faith, he cannot fail to attain health, for the power of this Substance is all the power there is.

God is in me or else is not at all (does not exist).

The magnificent cause of being— The imagination, the one reality In this imagined world— Leaves you With him for whom no phantasy moves, And you are pierced by a death.

And for what, except for you, do I feel love? Do I press the extremest book of the wisest man Close to me, hidden in me day and night? In the uncertain light of single, certain truth, Equal in living changingness to the light In which I meet you, in which we sit at rest, For a moment in the central of our being, The vivid transparence that you bring is peace.

And what I was feeling was the wonder Of being more than me, of being more Than mere here and now allowed I had become a shining star, a burning nova Exploded with love Flying through an endlessly Expanding universe Away from the me that was Toward a me that is beyond Understanding.

Freedom is a state of mind, I said wondering where I'd heard it before, not a state of being. We are all slaves to gravity and morality and the vicissitudes of nature. Our genes govern us much more than we'd like to think. Our bodies can not know absolute freedom but our minds can, can at least try.

confía en el proceso. Sin tratar de controlar toma todo como se presenta. No vive para lograr poseer sino simplemente para ser todo lo que puede ser en armonía con el Tao. Las

Just being is the main thing. Anything else is extra.