Choose thoughts that give you the emotions of being alive and excited about life.

and the idea of nothingness — the most terrifying of all ideas, when thought of with feeling — has, in my dear master’s work and in my memories of him, something as high and luminous...

…Desire, a function central to all human experience, is the desire for nothing nameable. And at the same time this desire lies at the origin of every variety of animation. If being were only what...

Go lovingly into each moment and experience your infinite being as you truly are. Feel, learn, play!

Blessed is the nightbird that sings for joy and not to be heard.

O great creator of being grant us one more hour to perform our art and perfect our lives.

be.

Try to choose carefully, Arren, when the great choices must be made. {…} But each deed you do, each act, binds you to itself and to its consequences, and makes you act again and yet...

Let’s only care about the place where we are.There’s beauty enough in being here and not anywhere else.If there’s someone beyond the curve in the road,Let them worry about what’s past the curve in the...

Your number one mission in life is to be who you were intended to be.

Not your thinking, but your being, is distinctiveness. Therefore not after difference,ye think it, must ye strive; but after YOUR OWN BEING. At bottom, therefore, there is only one striving, namely, the striving after your...

being self-reliant doesn’t justify becoming selfish

Butterfly upon my hand, A voice of wonder within my mind, not my own but the butterfly’s.

If we are to be aware of life while we are living it, we must have the courage to relinquish our hard-earned control of ourselves.

Ever, could I or could I not count the shadows of your being?

The deepest realization of meditation is that your being is a non-being. It is a nothing, a vast emptiness without boundaries. It is a no-self. The feeling of self, of “I” is false.

God is joy. Joy contains light that illuminates your entire being and those that come in contact with you.

She’s a manner of speaking.Even the flowers don’t come back, or the green leaves.There are new flowers, new green leaves.There are other beautiful days.Nothing comes back, nothing repeats itself, because everything is real.

It is easy to do good, but it takes a lifetime to become human!

Every specific human being, however, thinks, judges, imagines, wills and expresses himself or herself in a unique, dissimilar, and unrepeatable mode–a mode of unpredictable difference, or otherness, which objectively defies description or delimitation.

You walk for days among trees and among stones. Rarely does the eye light on a thing, and then only when it has recognized that thing as the sign of another thing: a print in...

Les dieux sont ceux qui ne doutent jamais.

If we do not know the character of being itself – I have never seen anyone suggest that we do know it – then there is an inevitable superficiality in any claim to an exhaustive...

In the midst of the ubiquitous dealings with prostituted signs, the thing-poem was capable of opening up the prospect of returning to credible experiences of meaning. It did this by tying language to the gold...

I am not an ornithologist—I am a bird.

We are not our thought we are just prisoner of our Identification of thought

Without thoughts the mind cannot exist only consciousness

When you give others a new chance, a new chance is really being given to you.

Je tiens à mon imperfection comme à ma raison d’être.

… but as with so may diagnoses it is, in the end, the symptoms that matter, not the cause, because this is what being alive means, this is what being a person means, to be...

Woven into our lives is the very fire from the stars and genes from the sea creatures, and everyone, utterly everyone, is kin in the radiant tapestry of being.

Happiness doesn’t think, it is.

How simple it could be! The answer to the problem of being anything was being it. How admirable Teddy was! From the ashes of his broken childhood he had formed a decision to be a...

Earth is the largest being on this planet.

Only when you explore the ecstasy of simply being, where even to breathe is a distraction, can you call yourself complete.

Praise be to God I’m not good,And have the natural egotism of flowersAnd rivers following their bedPreoccupied without knowing itOnly with blooming and flowing.This is the only mission in the World,This—to exist clearly,And to know...

There is one clear urgency in your life that you must never neglect, and that is — you must be yourself.

Thus, every entity, even if it is a defective one, in so far as it is an entity, is good. In so far as it is defective, it is evil.

It’s inimical to be critical without being constructive

When we promote the well-being of others God has placed in our lives our service glorifies God.

We have at any rate one advantage over Time and Space. We think them whereas it is extremely doubtful whether they think us!

Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling me who I am.

The fragrance of meditation is enlightenment.

Sometimes good is preventing us for being better”.rbasequia..

All beings exist and nothing elseAnd that’s why they’re called beings

I think, therefore I am… confused.

We know God by cultivating a relationship, not by understanding a concept.The relation constitutes the very subjectivity of of our existence. We participate in existence consciously and rationally, with subjective self-knowledge and identity, because the...

In a like manner, as soon as we know the meaning of being and the meaning of nonbeing, we know that a thing cannot be and not be at one and the same time, and...

Shy, what is it? I say it is intrigued by pride and hesitated by a feeling of being unworthy.

The phenomenological world is not the bringing to explicit expression of a pre-existing being, but the laying down of being. Philosophy is not the reflection of a pre-existing truth, but, like art, the act of...