661 Quotes About Being

There are no fail-safe ways of being.

A poet is something you are allowed to be, but not allowed to become.

Each of us is a god exploring what it is like to be a non-god, before returning to our divinity. The suspicion must be that we were bored with our perfection. How insufferable to be perfect forever. Perfection is so dull. We need a world of becoming to relieve the monotony of the world of perfect eternal being.

What I call innocence is the spirit's unself-conscious state at any moment of pure devotion to any object. It is at once a receptiveness and total concentration.

The greatest gift of love you can bestow on any man or woman is to just let them be.

Yet we must know, if only in order to learn not to known. The supreme lesson of human consciousness is to learn how not to know. That is, how not to interfere. That is, how to live dynamically, from the great Source, and not statically, like machines driven by ideas and principles from the head, or automatically from one fixed desire. At last, knowledge must be put into its true place in the living activity of man. And we must know deeply, in order to do that.

Meine Handlungen und meine Hirnzustände durchkreuzen sich munter wechselseitig. Eine endlose Abfolge aus Tun und Sein, Sein und Tun: Do be do be do.

Loving someone and being with them are two different things. Just cherish the magical times that both interlink.

Too much of my drive was about accomplishment and doing at thecost of becoming. I did very well with the “you can do anything”mantra because I believed it. But it was never enough—I never hit thetarget, I never arrived at home and I never really found the peace myheart was seeking.