Quotes about Existence

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.

Still seems it strange, that thou shouldst live forever Is it less strange, that thou shouldst live at all This is a miracle and that no more.

The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a patter of systems.

The essential quality of living life lies simply in the living.

Methinks my body is but the lees of my better being. In fact take my body who will, take it I say, it is not me.

The mind does not exist unless leagued with the soul

Do thou, too, live in this world without being of it.

Is it I, God, or who, that lifts this arm? But if the great sun move not of himself; but is as an errand-boy in heaven; nor one single star can revolve, but by some invisible power; how then can this one small heart beat; this one small brain think thoughts; unless God does that beating, does that thinking, does that living, and not I.

Wherefore, for all these things, we account the whale immortal in his species, however perishable in his individuality