661 Quotes About Being

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.

And one can only ever have begun; there is no other way to be than to be on the way.

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.

It’s the poet we love in Caeiro, not the philosopher. What we really get from these poems is a childlike sense of life, with all the direct materiality of the child’s mind, and all the vital spirituality of hope and increase that exist in the body and soul of nescient childhood. Caeiro’s work is a dawn that wakes us up and quickens us; a more that material, more than anti-spiritual dawn. It’s an abstract effect, pure vacuum, nothingness.

Human nature, essentially changeable, unstable as the dust, can endure no restraint; if it binds itself it soon begins to tear madly at its bonds, until it rends everything asunder, the wall, the bonds and its very self.(Das menschliche Wesen, leichtfertig in seinem Grund, von der Natur des auffliegenden Staubes, verträgt keine Fesselung; fesselt es sich selbst, wird es bald wahnsinnig an den Fesseln zu rütteln anfangen und Mauer, Kette und sich selbst in alle Himmelsrichtungen zerreißen.)

She floated near but outside her own body, feeling vague and intense at the same time. Needing nothing. Being what there was.

When you’re present in the moment with total awareness, you become finely tuned to anything that feels out ofstep or not in alignment with who you are. And when westep out of Mindfulness, we can immediately feel that we are not fully aware, or connected to ourselves completely.

What you think I think of you is what you think of yourself

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