Quotes about Existence

A day is a miniature eternity.

For every stoic was a stoic; but in Christendom where is the Christian?

the sense of being which in calm hours arises, we know not how, in the soul, is not diverse from things, from space, from light, from time, from man, but one with them and proceed obviously from the same source... Here is the fountain of action and of thought... We lie in the lap of immense intelligence.

Abundance is not a result you create. It is an existing state you recognize. We ask for long life, but 'tis deep life, or noble moments that signify. Let the measure of time be spiritual, not mechanical.

Nature is transcendental, exists primarily, necessarily, ever works and advances, yet takes no thought for the morrow.

In a certain sense, everything is everywhere at all times. For every location involves an aspect of itself in every other location. Thus every spatio-temporal standpoint mirrors the world.

Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe? Why should not we have a

Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact

The things that are seen, are temporal; the things that are unseen, are eternal. It

Oh, what have I to do with time?

Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts.

Nature, as we know her, is no saint…. She comes eating and drinking and sinning.