Quotes about Existence

For I am you and you are I.

Time moved for you not in quotidian beats, but in the slow rhythm the ages keep —

Goodness needeth not to enter into the soul, for it is there already, only it is unperceived. Theologia Germanica

I, real I? But where, but how, but at what price?

You'd be the first to complain if people didn't write,' Judd rapped out. 'Here's your egg. Boiled for three minutes exactly. I saw to it myself.' Taking his egg, 'On the contrary,' Fanning answered, 'I'd be the first to rejoice. If people write, it means they exist; and all I ask is to be able to pretend that the world doesn't exist.

That art thou': 'Behold but One in all things' -God within and God without. There is a way to Reality in and through the soul, and there is a way to Reality in and through the world. Whether the ultimate goal can be reached by following either of these ways to the exclusion of the other is to be doubted. The third, best and hardest way is that which leads to the divine Ground simultaneously in the perceiver and in that which is perceived.

Every individual being, from the atom up to the most highly organized of living bodies and the most exalted of finite minds, may be thought of [...] as a point where a ray of the primordial Godhead meets one of the differentiated, creaturely emanations of that same Godhead's creative energy.

The only way to survive eternity is to be able to appreciate each moment.

Life is but a dream, a grotesque and foolish dream.

All of us have been dying, hour by hour, since the moment we were born. Realizing this, let all things be placed in their proper perspective. . . . Remember, it is always later than you think.

Death is beautiful when seen to be a law, and not an accident. It is as common as life.

There is purpose and worth to each and every life.