Quotes about Existence
If things are real, they're there all the time.
- CS Lewis
If I were going to begin practicing the presence of God for the first time today, it would help to begin by admitting the three most terrible truths of our existence: that we are so ruined, and so loved, and in charge of so little.
- Anne Lamott
When humans experience something as powerful as a forest or a rainbow, it is not crazy to assign its existence to a Greater Intelligence.
- Anne Lamott
How alive am I willing to be?
- Anne Lamott
I understood immediately the thrill of seeing oneself in print. It provides some sort of primal verification: you are in print; therefore you exist.
- Anne Lamott
In many spiritual and wisdom paths, it is written that God created us to have company and to be God's loving eyes and hands on earth. But in certain African Christian catechisms it says that God created us because He thought we would like it.
- Anne Lamott
There really is only today, although luckily that is also the eternal now.
- Anne Lamott
We think we're humans having spiritual experiences, but we're really spirits having human experiences
- Anne Lamott
Living on earth has always been a dangerous way to spend your time.
- Anne Lamott
Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance. T. S. ELIOT
- Anne Lamott
So how on earth can I bring a child into the world, knowing that such sorrow lies ahead, that it is such a large part of what it means to be human?
- Anne Lamott
As is' is the portal to creation, to new life.
- Anne Lamott