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.

What am I?” Hegel had to take account of both that table and those sounds.

Be the tolerance you seek.

This helping-people business was an attractive idea, I’ll admit, because up to now I’d not done much more than be, and when I wasn’t just being, I’d caused some pain, too.

The word ‘God’ defines a personal relation, not an objective concept. Like the name of the beloved in every love. It does not imply separation and distance. Hearing the beloved name is an immediate awareness,...

Love is stronger than both fear and hope – if you can love the natural beauty around you, the amazing gifts and skills we have, the fact that you are alive to experience life, each...

The bond between being and non-being can be only internal. It is within being qua being that non-being must arise, and within non-being that being must spring up; and this relation can not be a...

The ultimate reality from which the path of this becoming could start off again will no longer rest on a ground of ‘causa sui.’ in any case the sense of a God who would alone...

But what is great can only begin great.

The heart is the anchor to all things, be it love to hate, or light to dark.

Don’t ever get to the point where you can’t be taught because life is a classroom and everyone owns a pen.

There is a greater purpose to living which is found in the spirit, which is the Being, and that purpose is worth living for.

If you can’t be who you really are then what is life but an unbearable lie?

garden” from which we grow.

We breathe our deepest during sleep. When we are in the state of full rest. We are able to be.

Are you doing life or are you living?

Home is where you can go and rest and be nothing

Safety” and “fairness” are the preoccupation of the wounded. “Being” and “joy” are the unconscious realities of the free and living.

I know everything I need to about a person by their hands. Eyes may be the window to ones soul but hands disclose the being.

And you require no answers”, Foamfollower was laughing in his gladness, “You are sufficient to every question”.

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.