#Being Quotes

“Such as we are made of, such we be.”

“Let us not look east and west for materials of conversation, but rest in presence and unity. A just feeling will fast enough supply fuel for discourse, if speaking be more grateful than silence. When people come to see us, we foolishly prattle, lest we be inhospitable. But things said for conversation are chalk eggs. Don't say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.”

“An individual man is a fruit which it cost all the foregoing ages to form and ripen. He is strong, not to do, but to live; not in his arms, but in his heart; not as an agent, but as a fact.”

“Flow down and down in always widening rings of being.”

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

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

“You are as you are,an indescribable message on the air.”

“Why should I be unhappy? Every parcel of my being is in full bloom.”

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

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

“I think and that is all that I am.”

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

“If you are what you do, then when you don't, you aren't.”

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

“Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.”

“Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.”

“To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one's being added to that being.”

“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".”

“The 'I think' which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the 'I breathe' which actually does accompany them.”

“I always tell audiences when I talk about writing: Writing isn't something I do; writing is something that I am. I am writing - it's just an expression of me.”

“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.”

“There is no way to prosperity, prosperity is the way.”

“Many people know what they want to have, but have no idea of who they want to be. Getting 'things' simply will not fulfill you. Only living and doing what you believe is 'the right thing' will give you that sense of inner strength that we all deserve.”

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

“We convince by our presence.”

“We can never lose what is really ours. Who can lose his being? Who can lose his very existence? If I am good, it is the existence first, and then that becomes colored with the quality of goodness. If I am evil, it is the existence first, and that becomes colored with the quality of badness. That existence is first, last, and always; it is never lost but ever present.”

“Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.”

“He in whom the love of truth predominates . . . submits to the inconvenience of suspense and imperfect opinion; but he is a candidate for truth . . . and respects the highest law of his being.”

“There is little one can say about love. It has to be lived, and it's always in motion.”

“O Love, O pure deep Love, be here, be now, Be all – worlds dissolve into your stainless endless radiance, Frail living leaves burn with your brighter than cold stares – Make me your servant, your breath, your core.”

“...even the richest personality is nothing before he has chosen himself, and on the other hand even what one might call the poorest personality is everything when he has chosen himself; for the great thing is not to be this or that but to be oneself, and this everyone can be if he wills it.”

“Be that self which one truly is.”

“All I know is reception; I am and I have: but I do not get, and when I fancied I had gotten anything, I found I did not.”

“We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.”

“The source of now is here.”

“We are and we know we are and we love to be it and know it.”

“When you are everywhere, you are nowhere. When you are somewhere, you are everywhere.”

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

“This is a subtle truth. Whatever you love, you are.”

“Everything lives and lasts by the inner necessity of its being, by its own nature's need.”

“Our responsibility is no longer to acquire, but to BE.”

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

“If you peel back the layers of your life-the frenzy, the noise-stillness is waiting. That stillness is you.”

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

“There is no doing in the world without being first.”

“We must heap up a great pile of doing, for a small diameter of being.”

“I do not evolve, I am.”

“I don't develop; I am.”

“It's not what the artist does that counts; it's what he is.”

“It does not matter how you came into the world, what matters is that you are here.”