Quotes about Existence

I am a good person, known and cherished by the One who brought me to my existence. Before I was hurt, I was a beloved.

Being alive means being loved.

Although after many years of living we often feel more lonely, hostile and filled with illusions than when we had hardly a past to reflect upon, we also know better than before that all these pains have deepened and sharpened our urge to reach out to a solitary, hospitable and prayerful mode of existence.

I know now that I have to speak from eternity into time, from the lasting joy into the passing realities of our short existence in this world, from the house of love into the houses of fear, from God's abode into the dwellings of human beings.

Temptations and struggles will remain to the end of our lives, but with a pure heart we will be restful even in the midst of a restless existence.

Over the years, I have come to realize that the greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity, or power, but self-rejection....Self rejection is the greatest enemy of the spiritual life because it contradicts the sacred voice that calls us the Beloved. Being the Beloved constitutes the core truth of our existence.

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.

When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.

I do not know how to distinguish between waking life and a dream. Are we not always living the life that we imagine we are?

This whole earth in which we inhabit is but a point is space.