As I sit here now, when I take off my shoe and I look down at my scar, I see beauty in it. I see all the hard work, all the sacrifices. I see the...

Confidence is being able to say ‘Fuck you, I’m the shit’ without opening your mouth, say it with your walk, with your smile, say it with your entire being.

Life is one percent what happens to you, and ninety-nine percent how you respond to it.

Evolution is no linear family tree, but change in the single multidimensional being that has grown to cover the entire surface of Earth.

I don’t regret anything I was before because I still am.I only regret not having loved you.Put your hands in mineAnd let’s be quiet, surrounded by life.

Love is not about finding the right person, but about being the right person.

I can see myself before myself—A being through dark scenery.

Animals, like us, are living souls. They are not things. They are not objects. Neither are they human. Yet they mourn. They love. They dance. They suffer. They know the peaks and chasms of being.

My conduct with my friends is motivated: each being is, I believe, incapable on his own, of going to the end of being. If he tries, he is submerged within a “private being” which has...

Man has his being in truth–if he sacrifices truth he sacrifices himself. Whoever betrays truth betrays himself. It is not a question of lying–but of acting against one’s conviction.

Man is not to direct or to be directed anymore than a tree or a cloud or a stoneMan is not to rule or be ruled anymore than a faith or a truth or a...

Love is the bee that carries the pollen from one heart to another.

The Ayurvedic route to great health involves two simple steps:1. Doing less;2. Being more.

Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.

Be the compassion you seek.

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...

They both listened silently to the water, which to them was not just water, but the voice of life, the voice of Being, the voice of perpetual Becoming.

Dance your Soulful path / and you shall know the magic / of your mind & heart / and all the beauty laughing / to fill your rising self.

I am a thin layer of all those beings on [samadhi level] 3, mingling, connected with one another in a spherical surface around the whole known universe. Our “backs” are to the void. We are...

The human in what it is objectively ever since its beginning is two, two who are different. Each part of what constitutes the unity of the human species corresponds to a proper being and a...

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...

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...

There is only Love — and Stories. All else is but a shadow dream.

That thing over there was more there than it’s there!Yes, sometimes I cry about the perfect body that doesn’t exist.But the perfect body is the bodiest body there can be,And the rest are the dreams...

Everything comes by being! Be the love you seek. Be the friend you seek. Be the lover you seek. Be the honesty you seek. Be the integrity you seek.

Live up to your morals and values- whilst remaining aware of them, embrace your unique self, your individuality and be happy the way you are. Remembering to shift your focus to the goodness in your...

For there is no creature whose inward being is so strong that it is not greatly determined by what lies outside it.

We are beginning to play with ideas of ecology, and although we immediately trivialize these into commerce or politics, there is at least an impulse still in the human breast to unify and thereby sanctify...

Our true self is being who we are.

You do not need to work to become spiritual. You are spiritual; you need only to remember that fact. Spirit is within you. God is within you. (67)

There is a horror that sometimes comes with being right.

You don’t understand,” Alecto replied vacantly. “It isn’t that I want to die… I just don’t want to exist.

Other times when I hear the wind blowI feel that just hearing the wind blow makes it worth being born.

The foundation of joyful independence is being content with yourself; self-love.

That you DO, you ARE,If you MUST, you WILL,If you CAN, you MIGHT,if you TRY, you WON’T,If you CAN’T, you’re RIGHT

No matter how strange things get, know that with every breath, you are becoming that which you have always been.

Don’t seek love externally, it’s fleeting. Go beyond the ego and awaken thelove that already exists within; it will encompass everyone andeverything in your life; it will permeate your very being.

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.

By first grade, my sense of worth was in direct proportion to what I learned and what I contributed back to the class. I had already become a human doing instead of a human being.

Why does everyone think a guy who prefers love to people is missing something in his life?

Switch off the TV and tune in to yourself

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...

Be the patience you seek

This aspect of animated nature, in which man is nothing, has something in it strange and sad….Here, in a fertile country, adorned with eternal verdure, we seek in vain the traces of the power of...

Just as it is by His goodness that God gives being to beings, so also it is by His goodness that He makes causes to be causes, thus delegating to them a certain participation in...

You can Transform into a Super-Soul! If you align your physical and mental (logical/emotional) self with your core self (or soul being), then you will know your personal path, and find ways to follow it...

We are all butterflies. Earth is our chrysalis.

When it’s over, I want to say: all my lifeI was a bride married to amazement.I was a bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.When it’s over, I don’t want to wonderif I have made...

Paradise is a state of being, more than just the name of a suburb or a home.

When an imaginative person gets into mental trouble, the line between seeming and being has a way of disappearing-