Being quotes

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◆ Be — don't try to become

- Osho100

◆ I live my life in growing orbits which move out over this wondrous world, I am circling around God, around ancient towers and i have been circling for a thousand years. And I still dont know if I am an eagle or a storm or a great song.

- Rainer Maria Rilke99

◆ What I want is to live of that initial and primordial something that was what made some things reach the point of aspiring to be human.

- Clarice Lispector99

◆ Man keeps looking for a truth that fits his reality. Given our reality, the truth doesn't fit.

- Werner Erhard99

◆ I want to see the world without explaining away its mystery by calling things wicked, righteous, sinful, and good. I want to erase in myself the easy explanations, the always mendacious explanations about why things happen the way they do, and in this way, come to know the mystery of being–-not by any approximation in thought, but by being. I want to be and not be ashamed of being.

- Therese Doucet99

◆ When a lack of white blood cells exposes the horizon of being, one has to make a choice. To cloister yourself away in a germ-free environment, alive but alone, or to embrace the woman you love and catch your death of cold at the marriage ceremony? What a great show. It's inner-directed script was unmatched by any other soap opera.

- Benson Bruno99

◆ The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there. -Yasutani Roshi, Zen master (1885-1973)

- Yasutani Roshi99

◆ I stopped hating and started just being. My whole life, I had been the most defensive person you'd meet, unable to tolerate any criticism. But now I started listening and being.

- Anthony Kiedis99

◆ When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real.

- Margery Williams99

◆ Zen is a liberation from time. For if we open our eyes and see clearly, it becomes obvious that there is no other time than this instant, and that the past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.

- Alan Wilson Watts99

◆ There is no use being alive if one must work. The event from which each of us is entitled to expect the revelation of his own life's meaning - that event which I may not yet have found, but on whose path I seek myself - is not earned by work.

- André Breton99

◆ The mind creates those things that exist.

- Terry Tempest Williams99

◆ And so man, as existing transcendence abounding in and surpassing toward possibilities, is a creature of distance. Only through the primordial distances he establishes toward all being in his transcendence does a true nearness to things flourish in him.

- Martin Heidegger99

◆ Maybe it's wrong when we remember breakthroughs to our own being as something that occurs in discrete, extraordinary moments. Maybe falling in love, the piercing knowledge that we ourselves will someday die, and the love of snow are in reality not some sudden events; maybe they were always present. Maybe they never completely vanish, either.

- Peter H?eg99

◆ Being is seeing in the human dimension.

- Stephen R. Covey99