Quotes about Existence

If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.

Consciousness is either inexplicable illusion, or else revelation

Seek dharma, child. Find out how you fit in, who you are. Remember that everything around you has a purpose. Even you, child.

Mostly, they are deceptive sweetenings of existence, like speedier communications which unpleasantly accelerate the tempo of life and leave us with less time than ever before. Omnis festinatio ex parte diaboli est—all haste is of the devil, as the old masters used to say.

The image of God has a shadow. The supreme meaning is real and casts a shadow. For what can be actual and corporeal and have no shadows?

A career, producing of children, are all maya [illusion] compared to that one thing, that your life is meaningful.

Suppose the world were only one of God's jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad one?

Life is a disease; and the only diference between one another is the stage of the disease at which he lives.

We are told that when Jehovah created the world he saw that it was good what would he say now

Writing, when all is said and done, is an attempt to understand one's own circumstance and to clarify the confusion of existence, including insecurities that do not torment normal people, only chronic nonconformists, many of whom end up as writers after having failed in other undertakings.

Are you afraid?" asked Alma. "No. I suppose that what comes after death is the same as before birth.

There's a time to live and a time to die. In between there's time to remember.