Quotes about Being

The self is coming from a state of pure awareness from the state of being. All the rest that comes about in a outward manifesation of the physical world, including fluctuations which end up as thoughts and actions

The power to respond to reason and truth exists in all of us. But so, unfortunately, does the tendency to respond to unrea

All our actions must be directed, in the last analysis, to making ourselves passive in relation to the activity and the being of divine Reality. We are, as it were, aeolian harps, endowed with the power either to expose themselves to the wind of the Spirit or to shut themselves away from it.

Man's highly developed color sense is a biological luxury—inestimably precious to him as an intellectual and spiritual being, but unnecessary to his survival as an animal.

In nature, as in work of art, the isolation of an object tends to invest it with absoluteness, to endow it with that more-than-symbolic meaning which is identical with being.

Sin is not wrong doing, it is wrong BEING, deliberate and emphatic independence of God.

This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.

Our thoughts are always pulling us into the future or the past, away from the present. But it is in the present moment that we find Spirit, our essential being and the force that animates all life.

The meaning of life is found in openness to being and "being present" in full awareness.

Childlike in faith means the daily acknowledgment of utter dependence and that I owe my life and being to another.

Every life is its own excuse for being.

Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.