Quotes about Being

We had as lief not be, as not be ourselves.

Now is all we have. Everything that has ever happened to you, and anything that is ever going to happen to you, is just a thought.

To be full of being is to live as a body-soul. One name for the experience of full being is joy.

When it is recognized that there is nothing beyond what is seen of the mind itself, the discrimination of being and non-being ceases and, as there is thus no external world as the object of perception, nothing remains but the solitude of Reality.

Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of a meaning of our life.

What we have to be is what we are.

Now the relation which, in the sphere of nature, being and semblance or sensation bear to one another in this antithesis, is the same as that which in ethics exists between good and pleasure or feeling.

Remember, we are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

For love is like a tree; it grows of itself; it send its roots deep into our being, and often continues to grow green over a heart in ruins.

The infinite has being. It is there. If infinity had no self then self would not be. But it is. Therefore it has a self. The self of infinity is God.

The reduction of the universe to one single being, the expansion of one single being into God: That is what love is.

Living, there is no happiness in that. Living: carrying one's painful self through the world. But being, being is happiness. Being: Becoming a fountain, a fountain on which the universe falls like warm rain.