Quotes about Existence

For the existing world is not a dream, and cannot with impunity be treated as a dream; neither is it a disease; but it is the ground on which you stand, it is the mother of whom you were born.

FOR EVERY STOIC WAS A STOIC BUT WHERE IN CHRISTENDOM IS THE CHRISTIAN?

When they are real, they are not glass threads or frostwork, but the solidest thing we know.

Atom from atom yawns as far As moon from earth, or star from star.

This relation between the mind and matter is not fancied by some poet, but stands in the will of God, and so is free to be known by all men.

The world thus exists to the soul to satisfy the desire of beauty. This

I become the transparent eyeball...

A day is a miniature eternity.

For every stoic was a stoic; but in Christendom where is the Christian?

the sense of being which in calm hours arises, we know not how, in the soul, is not diverse from things, from space, from light, from time, from man, but one with them and proceed obviously from the same source... Here is the fountain of action and of thought... We lie in the lap of immense intelligence.

Abundance is not a result you create. It is an existing state you recognize. We ask for long life, but 'tis deep life, or noble moments that signify. Let the measure of time be spiritual, not mechanical.

Nature is transcendental, exists primarily, necessarily, ever works and advances, yet takes no thought for the morrow.