Quotes about Being

Life is not a thing, an essence, or a concept, but a person—more specifically, a particular and unique person.

To be loved means to be recognized as existing.

the hypostatic union, or the union of the divine and human natures in the One Person of the Word, the God-Man, Jesus Christ, was not only a truth of the greatest, most revolutionary, and most existential actuality, but it was the central truth of all being and all history.

We are not human beings in search of a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings emersed in a human experience.

If we lose the present moment, we lose life.

Love has its source in God, for love is the very essence of His being.

When we're sitting, we're truly there in the present moment; we have come home, we have arrived. We are present in that time and place; we're not pulled away by the past, the future, or by anger or jealousy in the present.

Love is an aspect of being, and when you act from being, the power you draw on is limitless because it comes from the source.

The transcendent glory that every human being quests for, whether he knows it or not, is not a thing; it is a person, and his name is God.

You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.

Always be. Never try to become. You can be anything you want, just don't work at becoming. Remember to be it.

The universe is the sum total of all these moving things, however many there are. The whole universe is in the process of change. But we have already seen that change in any being requires an outside force to actualize it. Therefore, there is some force outside (in addition to) the universe, some real being transcendent to the universe. This is one of the things meant by God.