Quotes about Existence

If all the world were green, there would be no such thing as the color green. Similarly, men cannot know what it is to be together without otherwise knowing what it is to be apart. If all the world were love, then, how could love exist? This is why we turn away from each other on moments of great happiness and closeness. How can we know happiness and closeness without contrasting them, like lights?

You can't live in this world but there's no where else to go.

I'm back in these regions of fumbling dark uncertain creation, but it's my one and only world, and I'll do the best I can.

But let the mind beware, that though the flesh be bugged, the circumstances of existence are pretty glorious.

When it is recognized that there is nothing beyond what is seen of the mind itself, the discrimination of being and non-being ceases and, as there is thus no external world as the object of perception, nothing remains but the solitude of Reality.

Life is holy and every moment is precious.

Meditate outdoors. The dark trees at night are not really the dark trees at night, it's only the golden eternity.

Troubles, you see, is the generalization-word for what God exists in.

The world really does not matter, but God has made it so, and so it matters in God, and He Hath Aims for it, which we cannot know without the understanding of obedience. There is nothing to do but give praise. This is my ethic of "art" and why so.

grasping after life as much as you can because of its sweet sadness and because you would be dead some day.

For life is holy, and every moment is precious.

He would have had to roam the entire United States and look in every garbage pail from coast to coast before he found me embryonically convoluted among the rubbishes of my life, his life, and the life of everybody concerned and not concerned.