Quotes about Being

In order to see our son differently, Sandra and I had to be different. Our new paradigm was created as we invested in the growth and development of our own character. Paradigms are inseparable from character. Being is seeing in the human dimension. And what we see is highly interrelated to what we are. We can't go very far to change our seeing without simultaneously changing our being, and vice versa.

It is only to the individual that a soul is given.

We lead our lives well when we love God with our whole being and when we love neighbors as we (properly) love ourselves.

Peace and love are ever in us, being and working; but we be not alway in peace and in love.

Love has its source in God, for love is the very essence of His being.

Falling in love is something that happens to us, being is love is something we do. No passion is self preservatory.

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

So let this be the aim of the meditation: to turn one's innermost being into a vast empty plain, with none of that treacherous undergrowth to impede the view. So that something of 'God' can enter you, and something of 'Love', too.

I enter a room now not wondering what I am going to do or say, but what the risen Christ has already done, already said. I come in on a story that is in progress, something that is resurrection, already going on. Sometimes I can clarify a word, sharpen a feeling, help recover an essential piece of memory, but always dealing with what the risen Christ has already set in motion, already brought into being.

But there is a broad similarity between the directions in the psalm and the contemporary movement known as "behavior modification" which in a rough-and-ready way means that you can act yourself into a new way of being.

There isn't a single motivation, thought, act, or word that has slipped out of your being and escaped the full, undivided attention of God.

In solitude we become aware that we were together before we came together and that life is not a creation of our will but rather an obedient response to the reality of our being united.