Quotes about Existence

When conditions are sufficient, we manifest. When conditions are no longer sufficient, we no longer manifest. It does not mean that we do not exist. Like radio waves without a radio, we do not manifest.

Enlightenment is when the wave realizes that it is the ocean.

The greatest miracle is to be alive.

We do not have to die to get to the gates of Heaven.

We ride on the wave of birth and death, and we are free from birth and death.

If the wave does not have to die to become water, then we do not have to die to enter the kingdom of God.

Live the actual moment. Only this actual moment is life.

Life is short; it must not be spent in endless metaphysical speculations which will not be able to bring us the Truth.

To return home, to see into one's own nature, is the end aimed at by the practitioner, But how is one to see into one's own nature? It is necessary to bring light to one's existence, to live life, to render present and permanent the awareness of being. Put in another way, it is necessary that one sees the cyprus in the courtyard. If one does not see the presence of the cyprus in his own garden, how can one see into his own nature?

God is personal, but personal in an incomprehensible way, in so far as the conception of his personality surpasses all our views of personality.

The authoriyty of God's Word ... is (known) in the way of the Spirit, who leads man to obedience and draws him in his full existence to the gospel.

He planted marriage among humans as yet another signpost pointing to his own eternal, spiritual existence.