Quotes about Existence

Nietzsche mourns the loss of "man's belief in his dignity, his uniqueness, his irreplace-ability in the scheme of existence." For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

Na Arean sat alone in space as a cloud that floats in nothingness. He slept not, for there was no sleep; he hungered not, for as yet there was no hunger. So he remained for a great while, until a thought came to his mind. He said to himself, I will make a thing.

We have examined the universe in space and seen that we live on a mote of dust circling a humdrum star in the remotest corner of an obscure galaxy. And

all the atoms that make each of us up—the iron in our blood, the calcium in our bones, the carbon in our brains—were manufactured in red giant stars thousands of light-years away in space and billions of years ago in time. We are, as I like to say, starstuff.

Some people might kill it." "It's hard to kill a creature once it lets you see its consciousness." He continued to carry both twig and larva.

We are, you and I, at least one of the ways that the Universe knows itself

Many people are alive but don't touch the miracle of being alive.

To be loved means to be recognized as existing.

You are what you want to become. Why search anymore? You are a wonderful manifestation. The whole universe has come together to make your existence possible. There is nothing that is not you. The kingdom of God, the Pure Land, nirvana, happiness, and liberation are all you.

Life is available only in the present. That is why we should walk in such a way that every step can bring us to the here and the now.

You have an appointment with life, an appointment that is in the here and now.

What is happening in the present moment is life.