Quotes About Being

A lyric, it is true, is the expression of personal emotion, but then so is all poetry, and to suppose that there are several kinds of poetry, differing from each other in essence, is to be deceived by wholly artificial divisions which have no real being.

The way I feel is that there is a balance in my life between being alone and interacting with people, between Being and doing.

An entire life of solitude contradicts the purpose of our being, since death itself is scarcely an idea of more terror.

It's not that "today is the first day of the rest of my life," but that now is all there is of my life.

Life itself is your proper meal.

All human beings, without exception, are continually creating themselves with the life-energy that is flowing within them

resisting life, he finds that the Self is more than his own being; it includes the whole universe.

Meditation is not an escape from life... but preparation for really being in life.

Each human being has the right to two blessings, which are: the blessing to do right, and the blessing to err. In the latter case, there is always a path of learning leading to the right way.

One amino acid does not a protein make-let alone a being.

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.

Life is only available in the present moment.

Life reveals itself to us only in so far as well live it.

In my definition of consciousness, consciousness is the same thing as life. What wisdom traditions also call spirit.

Life wasn't about becoming, was it? It was about being.

We are what we are.

Life is being, not having.

Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

The fullness of life is only accessible in the present moment.

Life always is now. Life is inseparable from now.

Being is central, and Being is now. The fulfillment of your life is not going to happen through anything. The outer activities in your life are secondary. What is Primary is Being.

In a fully functional organism, an emotion has a very short life span. It is like a momentary ripple or wave on the surface of your Being.

You have it now and that is all your whole life is; now. There is nothing else than now. There is neither yesterday, certainly, nor is there any tomorrow.

I'm in the moment. I'm always in the moment of life.