Quotes about Existence

What I wear is pants. What I do is live. How I pray is breathe.

For our duties and our needs, in all the fundamental things for which we were created, come down in practice to the same thing.

This time is given to me by God that I may live in it. It is not given to make something out of it, but given me to be stored away in eternity as my own.

The world as pure object is something that is not there. It is not a reality outside us for which we exist....It is a living and self-creating mystery of which I am myself a part, to which I am myself, my own unique door.

If we enter into ourselves, find our true self, and then pass beyond the inner I, we sail forth into the immense darkness in which we confront the I AM of the Almighty.

For the contemplative there is no cogito ("I think") and no ergo ("therefore") but only SUM, I AM. Not in the sense of a futile assertion of our individuality as ultimately real, but in the humble realization of our mysterious being as persons in whom God dwells, with infinite sweetness and inalienable power.

God utters me like a word containing a partial thought of Himself. A word will never be able to comprehend the voice that utters it. But

We do not know we are full of paradise because we are so full of our own noise that we cannot hear God singing us and all things into being.

It is here, in this poverty, that man regains the eternal being that once he was, now is and evermore shall be.

Ultimately the only way that I can be myself is to become identified with Him in Whom is hidden the reason and fulfillment of my existence.

God utters me like a word containing a partial thought of Himself.

EVERY one of us is shadowed by an illusory person: a false self. This is the man that I want myself to be but who cannot exist, because God does not know anything about him. And to be unknown of God is altogether too much privacy.