Quotes about Existence

You are here for a reason.

By means of corporal and temporal things we may comprehend the eternal and the spiritual.

We both exist and know that we exist, and rejoice in this knowledge.

Spiritual Intelligence represents our drive for meaning and connection with the infinite.

As you sift through this very solid-looking body, you have to go only so far before you end up with a handful of nothing.

We are all life trying to live, among other life trying to live.

Strange is our situation here on Earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that man is here for the sake of other men - above all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.

The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life.

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, of the manifestations of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty - it is this knowledge and this emotion that constitute the truly religious attitude; in this sense, and in this alone, I am a deeply religious man.

Life is a Mystery, not a problem waiting to be solved.

Still there are moments when one feels free from one's own identification with human limitations and inadequacies. At such moments, one imagines that one stands on some spot of a small planet, gazing in amazement at the cold yet profoundly moving beauty of the eternal, the unfathomable: life and death flow into one, and there is neither evolution nor destiny; only being.