Best 1828 quotes in «existence quotes» category

Do not look for joy anywhere else. It is living in you, and gives meaning to all Existence.

Do we fear suffering or apathy most? Is it from experience or the monotony of a commonplace existence that we quickest flee?

Do you think love just goes away? Pops out of existence when it becomes too painful or inconvenient, as if you never felt it?

Each of the small enlightenments that a Zen practitioner has, which are known in Zen as "Satori experiences," provides deeper insights into the nature of existence and helps a person prepare for complete enlightenment.

Each and every day, Israel's very existence is at stake.

Doubtless these are inconsequential perplexities. Still, inconsequential perplexities have now and again been known to become the fundamental mood of existence, one suspects.

Enlightenment has nothing to do with physical knowledge. It is the experience of existence. Existence is infinite. There are countless universes and creations taking place simultaneously.

Ethical existence [is] the highest manifestation of spirituality.

Eternal life is personal existence in continuity with the present life, but transfigured.

Energy is not only the basis of our existence, it is the fuel that makes everything in our lives real and possible.

Even the most miserable life is better than a sheltered existence in an organized society where everything is calculated and perfected.

Even theologians, even the great theologians of the thirteenth century, even Saint Thomas Aquinas himself did not trust to faith alone, or assume the existence of God.

Every day, a piece of music, a short story, or a poem dies because its existence is no longer justified in our time. And things that were once considered immortal have become mortal again, no one knows them anymore. Even though they deserve to survive.

Every day we have a special reason to make a good celebration! And that reason is our very existence!

Every discussion of the status of woman is complicated by the existence of the lady. She overshadows the rest of her sex.

Every life is its own excuse for being.

Every day, the dispensing of existence.... Its face is fierce and distant and ancient.

Every breath we draw is a gift of God's love; every moment of existence is a grace.

Every living creature commences its existence under a form different from, and simpler than, that which it eventually attains.

Everyone who observes himself doubting observes a truth, and about that which he observes he is certain; therefore he is certain about a truth. Everyone therefore who doubts whether truth exists has in himself a truth on which not to doubt.... Hence one who can doubt at all ought not to doubt the existence of truth.

Everyone - pantheist, atheist, skeptic, polytheist - has to answer these questions: 'Where did I come from? What is life's meaning? How do I define right from wrong and what happens to me when I die?' Those are the fulcrum points of our existence.

Everything is part of one web, one matrix of existence, beyond discussion. This is our true self in its undifferentiated form.

Existence begins in every instant.

Existence came from God; death came by Adam; and immortality and eternal life come through Christ.

Existence in itself, taken at its least miraculous, is a miracle.

Existence is a mystery , and one should accept it as a mystery and not pretend to have any explanation .

Existence is beyond the power of words to define: Terms may be used But are none of them absolute.

Existence without essence is very stressful.

Existence has overpowered Books. Today I slew a Mushroom.

Existence is Appetite: the gnaw of being; the one attempt of all things to assimilate to some higher attempt.

Existence is the awareness of awareness.

Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.

Existence is an imperfection.

Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.

Existence of Isvara follows our conception of Isvara. Let us first know whose concept He is. The concept will be only according to the one who conceives. Find out who you are and the other problem will solve itself.

Existence precedes and rules essence.

Existence is a miracle, and, morally considered, a free gift from moment to moment.

Existence is illusory and it is eternal.

Existence is perpetual motion. Galileo wondered about it, Da Vinci.

Existence is self-enjoyment, by means of some object distinct from ourselves.

Everyone must decide for himself whether it is better to have a brief but more intensely felt existence or to live a long and ordinary life.

Every so often something shatters like ice and we are in the river of our existence. We are aware.

Every species has come into existence coincident both in space and time with a pre-existing closely allied species.

Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.

Everything in existence undergoes constant change. The things that surround us, even our selves are temporary manifestations of Ki energy.

Faith is the final triumph over incongruity, the final assertion of the meaningfulness of existence.

Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him. It is a gift for dealing with the accidents of existence, not the accidents themselves.

Existence is larger than any model that is not itself the exact size of existence (which has no size).

"Existence is sorrow." Understand, and go beyond sorrow. This is the way of brightness.

Existence is violent, I exist, therefore I'm violent. . . in that way.