1,690 Quotes About Existence

We are but cells living in a much larger organism, however, this does not make our existence less significant – for an organism without cells is no organism at all. We define it; we make it what it is. We are responsible for its health, its functionality, and above all, its purpose. A lone cell can restore the others, or a lone cell can spread a plague.

The squirrels, leaping joyfully from branch to branch: not a single one doubts its existence.

Speak it into existence and your words, through your desires, will bring it into fruition.

Some care is needed in using Descartes' argument. "I think, therefore I am" says rather more than is strictly certain. It might seem as though we are quite sure of being the same person to-day as we were yesterday, and this is no doubt true in some sense. But the real Self is as hard to arrive at as the real table, and does not seem to have that absolute, convincing certainty that belongs to particular experiences.

But the thing to remember about our “awakening” isthat it’s a daily process. Just like how our car’s windshieldgets dirty each day, and we use our windshield wipers toclean it, you too have to do a thorough sweep of yourselfto find out what’s dirtying or obstructing your reality.

If it is true that by death we once more become what we were before being, would it not have been better to abide by that pure possibility, not to stir from it? What use was this detour, when we might have remained forever in an unrealized plenitude?

When we ge closer to the divine, benediction starts happening. When we go away from the divine, benediction starts disappearing.

Aside from myself, there was no sign of me.

Hoarding is holding onto what I can’t keep and all the while convincing myself that I can. And in the end, what I’m really hoarding is my need to believe something at the expense of my existence.