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.

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-

In the recumbence of depression, your information-gathering system collates its intelligence and reports to you these facts: (1) there is nothing to do; (2) there is nowhere to go; (3) there is nothing to be;...

I love flowers for being flowers, directly.And I love trees for being trees without my thought.

Healthy surrender means allowing yourself to “be” rather than being in a constant state of want.

If we get rid of all wishful thinking and dubious metaphysical speculations, we can hardly doubt that – at a time not too distant – each one of us will simply cease to be. It...

Our tears are precious, necessary, and part of what make us such endearing creatures.

If other people do not understand our behavior—so what? Their request that we must only do what they understand is an attempt to dictate to us. If this is being “asocial” or “irrational” in their...

Most people don’t mind being stupid, insomuch that they do not appear stupid; appearance and being are seldom simultaneous, congruent, and conclusive.

A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm,waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm likeworship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, theirsongs never cease....

When I speak about Jesus Christ, I do not speak about Christianity. Christianity has basically nothing to do with Jesus. The spirit of Christ can not be organized. Then it will not liberate you.Christ is...

Ours was such a delicious risk.My being abruptly and altogetherEcstatic and be-stilled.

I don’t always feel what I know I should feel.My thought crosses the river I swim very slowlyBecause the suit men made it wear weighs it down.

It is easy; just be to have.

Briefly summarising, we can express the proposed law thus: consciousness is bound up with learning in organic substance; organic competence is unconscious. Still more briefly, and put in a form which is admittedly rather obscure...

Search not for happiness outside yourself, for nothing could be further from the truth.

Through our awareness, we can open the inheritance of our qualities or talents, and behind that, reside in the stillness of being, present in the sanctity of universal love.

Only the power of light illuminates our thoughts and our being.

But when a man draws a lifeless thing into his passionate longing for dialogue, lending it independence and as it were a soul, then there may dawn in him the presentiment of a world-wide dialogue...

I am part of everyone I ever dated on OK Cupid.

Isi, I’m trying to say that you’ve been… no, you’re so, you’re–” He stopped.”You are,” he said. His hand found hers, and he held her finger tightly, as though he did not dare to do...