Being quotes

No school of philosophy has ever solved this question of whether being determines consciousness or the other way around. It may be a false antithesis.

All things in the world come from being. And being comes from non-being.

I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here; and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end.

Love is a state of Being. Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form.

Being is the great explainer.

Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.

There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.

Love… it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.

Our heart glows, and secret unrest gnaws at the root of our being. Dealing with the unconscious has become a question of life for us.

Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being.

To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one’s being added to that being.

I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.

I think that I do feel that my nature is to express what this self, this particular self at this time, experiences in the world. And that is so organic – I use this metaphor a lot but I’ll use it again – it’s like a pine tree producing pine cones, or a blackberry bush producing blackberries – it’s just what happens with this being, now.

Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.