Quotes about Existence

Call the world, if you please, the vale of Soul-making. Then you will find out the use of the world.

A Poet is the most unpoetical of any thing in existence; because he has no Identity--he is continually in for--and filling some other Body--The Sun, the Moon, the Sea and Men and Women who are creatures of impulse are poetical and have about them an unchangeable attribute--the poet has none; no identity--he is certainly the most unpoetical of all God's Creatures. If then he has no self, and if I am a Poet, where is the Wonder that I should say I would write no more?

Why in the world are we here? Surely not to live in pain and fear. Why on earth are you there, when you're everywhere-come and get your share.

We're terrible animals. I think that the Earth's immune system is trying to get rid of us, as well it should.

The one reality you can't evade is personal experience.

We are Spiritual Beings have a Human Experience. Not the other way around.

The most intractable of our experiences is the experience of Time-the intuition of duration, combined with the thought of perpetual perishing.

You are an infinite spiritual being having a temporary human experience.

God himself culminates in the present moment, and will never be more divine in the lapse of all the ages.

The Church exists by mission, just as a fire exists by burning. Where there is no mission there is no Church; and where there is neither Church nor mission, there is no faith.

I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself the answer. Before your face questions die away. What other answer would suffice?

Things that are seen are temporal; things that are unseen are eternal.