Quotes about Being

You must learn to get in touch with the innermost essence of your being. This true essence is beyond the ego. It is fearless; it is free; it is immune to criticism; it does not fear any challenge. It is beneath no one, superior to no one, and full of magic, mystery, and enchantment.

There is no was.

Nothing matters but breath, breathing, to know and to be alive.

How comes the world to be here at all instead of the nonentity which might be imagined in its place? ... from nothing to being there is no logical bridge.

We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being.

To come to the table is to learn to be our real selves—not some construct conceived by someone else, but who God made us to be.

Thus we are sucked away into the future—and we are incapable of actually living one minute of life.

You don't have to run anywhere to become someone else.

When we're sitting, we're truly there in the present moment; we have come home, we have arrived. We are present in that time and place; we're not pulled away by the past, the future, or by anger or jealousy in the present.

What we have to be is what we 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.

Words stand between silence and silence: between the silence of things and the silence of our own being. Between the silence of the world and the silence of God. When we have really met and known the world in silence, words do not separate us from the world nor from other men, nor from God, nor from ourselves because we no longer trust entirely in language to contain reality.