Quotes about Existence

I have the immense joy of being man, a member of a race in which God Himself became incarnate.

Perhaps the book of life, in the end, is the book of what one has lived and if one has lived nothing, he is not in the book of life.

All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.

If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.

If I discover within myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world

If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.

Consciousness is either inexplicable illusion, or else revelation

Seek dharma, child. Find out how you fit in, who you are. Remember that everything around you has a purpose. Even you, child.

Mostly, they are deceptive sweetenings of existence, like speedier communications which unpleasantly accelerate the tempo of life and leave us with less time than ever before. Omnis festinatio ex parte diaboli est—all haste is of the devil, as the old masters used to say.

The image of God has a shadow. The supreme meaning is real and casts a shadow. For what can be actual and corporeal and have no shadows?