356 quotes found
“Be the compassion you seek.”
“There is one clear urgency in your life that you must never neglect, and that is you must be yourself.”
“Man must be an emptiness, a nothingness, which is not a pure nothingness (reines Nichts), but something that is to the extent that it annihilates Being, in order to realize itself at the expense of...”
“Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us,...”
“A thing can only live through a pious illusion.”
“How simple it could be! The answer to the problem of being anything was being it. How admirable Teddy was! From the ashes of his broken childhood he had formed a decision to be a cheerful person, a...”
“but BEing time is never wasted time. When we are BEing, not only are we collaborating with chronological time, but we are touching on kairos, and are freed from the normal restrictions of time.”
“The only thing more important than your to-do list is your to-be list. The only thing more important than your to-be list is to be. ~”
“I love, therefore I am.”
“The world deprived of clear-cut outlines, of the up and the down, of good and evil, succumbs to a peculiar nihilization, that is, it loses its colors, so that grayness covers not only things of thi...”
“It's why you need other fingers, other tongues. Only other people can make you feel real.”
“Being is the soul of every concept, of every judgment and of every reasoning.”
“In a like manner, as soon as we know the meaning of being and the meaning of nonbeing, we know that a thing cannot be and not be at one and the same time, and under the same formal consideration.”
“The phenomenological world is not the bringing to explicit expression of a pre-existing being, but the laying down of being. Philosophy is not the reflection of a pre-existing truth, but, like art,...”
“Since poetry deals with the singular, not the general, it cannot - if it is good poetry - look at things of this earth other than as colorful, variegated, and exciting, and so, it cannot reduce lif...”
“Ever, could I or could I not count the shadows of your being?”
“The fundamental problem here is the continued over-identification with doing. By attempting to do The Leap, the practitioner is attempting the impossible (as doing and being point to two different ...”
“But when a man draws a lifeless thing into his passionate longing for dialogue, lending it independence and as it were a soul, then there may dawn in him the presentiment of a world-wide dialogue w...”
“The bond between being and non-being can be only internal. It is within being qua being that non-being must arise, and within non-being that being must spring up; and this relation can not be a fac...”
“Stop blaming and start being!”
