Being Quotes

So give up waiting as a state of mind. When you catch yourself slipping into waiting . . . snap out of it. Come into the present moment. Just be, and enjoy being. If you are present, there is never any need for you to wait for anything. So next time somebody says, “Sorry to have kept you waiting,” you can reply, “That's all right, I wasn't waiting. I was just standing

Acceptance of what is immediately frees you from mind identification and thus reconnects you with Being. Resistance is the mind.

Something inside you emerges....an innate, indwelling peace, stillness, aliveness. It is the unconditioned, who you are in your essence. It is what you had been looking for in the love object. It is yourself.

Call me whatever you like; I am who I must be.

Sense your presence, the naked, unveiled, unclothed beingness. It is untouched by young or old, rich or poor, good or bad, or any other attributes.

Let the waters settle and you will see the moon and the stars mirrored in your own being.

He lay on his chair with his hands clasped above his paunch not reading, or sleeping, but basking like a creature gorged with existence.

One must be something to be able to do something.

I sometimes ask people, 'Can you be aware of your own presence? Not the thoughts that you're having, not the emotions that you're having, but the very presence of your very being?' You become aware of your own presence by sensing the entire energy field in your body that is alive. And that is the totality of your presence.

Zweck sein selbst ist jegliches Tier.Each animal is an end in itself.

The source of now is here.

You don't have to try, you just have to be.

You have to 'be'' before you can 'do', and do before you can 'have'.

When Doing becomes infused with the timeless quality of being, that is success

In you, as in each human being, there is a dimension of consciousness far deeper than thought. It is the very essence of who you are. We may call it presence, awareness, the unconditioned consciousness.

Just as the sun is infinitely brighter than a candle flame, there is infinitely more intelligence in Being than in your mind

I want to be a good human being. I'm doing my best, and I'm working at it.

You are not IN the universe, you ARE the universe.

Being is the great explainer.

Our heart glows, and secret unrest gnaws at the root of our being. Dealing with the unconscious has become a question of life for us.

With sturdy shoulders, space stands opposing all its weight to nothingness. Where space is, there is being.

In life, what more can you ask for than to be real?

[In developing your potential] ... I don't develop; I am

I am a human being, not a human doing. Don't equate your self-worth with how well you do things in life. You aren't what you do. If you are what you do, then when you don't . . , you aren't.

Stop needing and start having. Stop wanting and start being.

There is no need to run outside for better seeing... Rather abide at the center of your being; For the more you leave it the less you learn. Search your heart and see... The way to do is to be.

Maybe I’d like to be defined by what I am.

Nothing is, everything is becoming.

When you can no longer feel the life that you are, you are likely to try to fill up your life with things.

Most people don't know how to listen because the major part of their attention is taken up by thinking. They pay more attention to that than to what the other person is saying, and none at all to what really matters: the Being of the other person underneath the words and the mind. Of course, you cannot feel someone else's Being except through your own. This is the beginning of the realization of oneness, which is love. At the deepest level of Being, you are one with all that is.

To be is to do.

Being rich/wealthy is being in touch with the fullness of life. When you are open to the present moment, what comes in, is a gratitude for "what is". When you are aligned with the present moment, there is a peace that comes, so it is like you are experiencing life for the first time, when you become present. When you are in a state of gratitude for what is ... that is really what being wealthy means

Most people's lives are run by desire and fear. Desire is the need to add something to yourself in order to be yourself more fully. All fear is the fear of losing something and thereby becoming diminished and being less. These two movements obscure the fact that Being cannot be given or taken away. Being in its fullness is already within you, Now.

I honor those who try to rid themselves of any lying, who empty the self and have only clear being there.

Give up defining yourself - to yourself or to others. You won't die. You will come to life.

Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love.

Ultimately what you do is secondary. But how you do it is primary.

That which we are, we are all the while teaching, not voluntarily, but involuntarily.

Do not pollute your beautiful, radiant Being nor the Earth with negativity. Do not give unhappiness in any form whatsoever a dwelling place inside you.

You don't 'have' a life, you 'are' life. The One Life, the one consciousness that pervades the entire universe and takes temporary form to experience itself as a stone or blade of grass, as an animal, a person, a star or a galaxy.

The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.

Everything is shown up by being exposed to the light, and whatever is exposed to the light itself becomes light.

You can't think about presence, and the mind can't understand it. Understanding presence is being present.

I think there's a difference between "I Can" and "I Am." And "I Am" is really the goal that I'm looking for, rather than "I Can".

Be that self which one truly is.

Be truly whole, and all things will return to you.

Thought began to take over and obscured the simple yet profound joy of connectedness with being.

Dwell as near as possible to the channel in which your life flows.

As he thinks, so he is; as he continues to think, so he remains.

I'm not a developer; I am.

Other people are joyous, like on the feast of the ox, like on the way up to the terrace in the spring. I alone am inert, giving no sign, like a newborn baby who has not learned to smile.

Once you have made peace with the present moment, see what happens, what you can do or choose to do, or rather what life does through you. There are three words that convey the secret of the art of living, the secret of all success and happiness: One With Life. Being one with life is being one with Now. You then realize that you don't live your life, but life lives you. Life is the dancer, and you are the dance.

All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.

Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs.

The worlds in which we live at heart are one, The world "I am," the fruit of "I have done"; And underneath these worlds of flower and fruit, The world "I love,"--the only living root.

When you grow up believing you are what you do, when you're done, you aren't.

Wherever You Are, Be ThereOne of the major reasons why we fail to find happiness or to create unique lifestyle is because we have not yet mastered the art of being.

Life is what happens when we are busy doing other things. Peace is not something you wish for; it's something you make, something you do, something you are and something you give away.

We convince by our presence.

A great silent space holds all of nature in its embrace. It also holds you.