What Is Existence Quotes

It's [motherhood] the biggest on-the-job- training program in existence today.

For one quarter, Black Tiger lets me escape from my rotten existence for three glorious hours. Pretty good deal.

In my view (animal) knowledge is apt belief, where not only the belief (its existence and content) but also its correctness is creditable to the subject's competence.

Maybe existence is ultimately a lonely thing.

No metaphysician has yet shaken the ordinary individual's belief in his own existence. The uncertainties only begin for most of us when we ask what else is.

So they were desperately in love and being desperately in love involves a desperate existence.

Novelists... fashioning nets to sustain and support the reader as he falls helplessly through the chaos of his own existence.

In very truth the days are almost free, and if it is another way of saying that our lives are empty, well -- there are days when emptiness is spacious, and non-existence elevating . . .

No society has fulfilled its democratic promise if people go hungry... If some go without food they have surely been deprived of all power. The existence of hunger belies the existence of democracy.

For whatever deserves to exist deserves also to be known, for knowledge is the image of existence, and things mean and splendid exist alike.

I call to the spirits of other lands to make fecund my existence

There has been little or no mention of the vast body of law which contradicts your position. I think you owe it to the people whom you address to explain its existence.

A picture of my existence... would show a useless wooden stake covered in snow... stuck loosely at a slant in the ground in a ploughed field on the edge of a vast open plain on a dark winter night.

Eternity is selfless giving. Eternity sends forth all of the worlds, the very fabric of existence.

Dharma is another name for existence. It is existence in its purest form.

Dharma is the Truth that all of existence is. It does not disagree with anything. It is the perception of existence in its purest formlessness.

We examine everything in existence and we come to see that everything is transitory and temporal, that which is left over is God, is eternity, is the Self.

You cannot be born and you cannot die because you don't even exist ... in the sense that you think of existence.

While all the things you believe and know exist in their own right, they're ways of looking at existence, but existence is infinite - it's beyond all ways of looking.

In that undifferentiated reality of the Self there is eternal bliss. All the phantoms of existence fade away.

Love is a modest and immodest teacher who will bring you through the school of existence, which is the heart.

In love we listen. We listen to what others say. We listen to what our own being is telling us about the nature of existence.

We see the one light, the one unified reality that we see in others, is the same reality that is within ourselves. We are one with all of existence.

There are persons who elected to give their existence to God. They are happy, happy in their self-giving.

The most giving souls are those who give when they don't have to give, who could just walk away from this world and its suffering and merge with eternal existence and bliss forever.

When you visit Nirvana, there is neither existence nor nonexistence. Your baggage never arrives because there is no one there to claim it.

There is no deterioration and there is no creation. There are projections, moments of existence. Each moment is perfect.

Mind only comes into apparent existence through the action of perception. Mind appears to exist because it perceives.

Being on the path means we again meditate with joy. We deal with the suffering of life and the pain of existence without perfect enlightenment with a smile.

Learn to accept the transitory nature of existence of the body and the mind; see eternity in everything, this world, the other worlds, and nirvana.

In advanced Zen a person comes to realize that the existence of things and their ability to perceive them correctly is completely dependent upon their state of mind.

Past life knowledge is not the wedding album of existence. Past life remembrance in Buddhism is the ability to bring a greater awareness we had in another life into this life.

Within the universe there is a pure light. It is a light that is beyond all darkness. It does not give way to anything. It is the light of existence, the dharmakaya.

I think I'm on an angle. I'm on an oblique angle through all of existence.

The person who did all of these things has gone away, vanished without a trace in the ecstasy of existence.

Computers are the central access; information processing based on a spiral network, similar to that which is the chaos of existence itself, the analysis of systems, the interlocking lokas.

To take charge of destiny means to play a very convoluted chess game on multiple levels of consciousness and existence.

What we discover is it was not the waves or the birds or the wind that were standing out and being separate from existence; it was we who were standing out and being separate from existence.

In Tantric Zen, career, relationships, the type of insurance you have - all things are part of your evolution, your awareness, your experience of the suchness of existence.

Lakshmi is a celestial being who lives in a higher plane of existence. Her mantra is "Sring." When you chant it, it brings beauty and light into your consciousness.

After meditation, it is a good idea to bow and offer your meditation to god, to that stillness and perfection that is existence. Feel that you are giving your meditation away.

The primary quality that Lao Tzu seems to emobdy is humility, which is the image of water - seeking the common level of existence.

For a person who lives in time, differences are the most important thing because they represent your existence.

Before perception, before a preceiver, existence was - is. This is the consciousness that we refer to as nirvana, God, eternity.

Everything is part of one web, one matrix of existence, beyond discussion. This is our true self in its undifferentiated form.

Most beings enjoy existence so time comes into being.

Male and female are the first things we learn because they represent the polarity of existence.

The dreams of existence of that we call time, space, matter, subject, object, yin, yang - everything flows forth from this tai chi.

What we're seeking to do is become transparent. A transparent window on reality. But that takes time to do. We're starting with a very solid, objectified view of ourselves and existence

Alow immortality to work through you. Be but a mere instrument. And that instrument should be so absorbed in the perfect perfection of existence, that it knows not even that it is absorbed.