Quotes about Existence

In our creation, God asked a question and in our truly living; God answers the question.

The solution of the problem of life is life itself. Life is not attained by reason and analysis but first of all by living.

There is only one problem on which all my existence, my peace, my happiness depend: to discover myself in discovering God. If I find Him I will find myself and if I find my true self I will find Him.

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.