Quotes about Existence

There are two evil futurities and one good. A miserable future existence is evil; and annihilation, or nigban, is an evil - a fearful evil. A happy future existence is alone good.

Don't be misled by those who claim God doesn't exist, because He does.

When am I happy and when am I sad and what is the difference? What do I need to know to stay alive? What is true in the world?

she tackled the problem of trying to decide how she wanted to live and what was valuable to her. When am I happy and when am I sad and what is the difference? What do I need to know to stay alive? What is true in the world?

She floated near but outside her own body, feeling vague and intense at the same time. Needing nothing. Being what there was.

Thank God for life, True Belle said, and thank life for death.

They were troublesome thoughts, but they wouldn't go away. Under the moon, on the ground, alone, with not even the sound of baying dogs to remind him that he was with other people, his self--the cocoon that was personality--gave way. He could barely see his own hand, and couldn't see his feet. He was only his breath, coming slower now, and his thoughts. The rest of him disappeared. So the thoughts came, unobstructed by other people, by things, even by the sight of himself.

God isn't amalgamated into His creation. He is not a tree, a river, or a butterfly. Rather than being a part of His creation, God is above and outside of it.

Everything for God is right now because He has no past and He has no future. He is the right now, ever-present God.

He is who He was, and He is also who He will be because the great I Am never steps out of the present tense.

Right worship, the kind that is pleasing to God, acknowledges the grace that is in Jesus Christ not only with our lips but also with our lives. Christ's own sacrifice makes possible the right kind of offering and proper worship: the sacrifice of the whole of our lives, a thanksgiving existence that proceeds from a mood of gratitude. Worship

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.