Existence Quotes

Mercy did not exist in the primordial life. It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death.

The wave is the same as the ocean, though it is not the whole ocean. So each wave of creation is a part of the eternal Ocean of Spirit. The Ocean can exist without the waves, but the waves cannot exist without the Ocean.

To reduce the sum of our existence to a competitive struggle for advantage among more than two hundred nations is not clear-eyed but myopic. People and nations compete, but that is not all that they do.

The Bible is a book that has been read more and examined less than any book that ever existed.

I don’t believe that people would ever fall in love or want to be married if they hadn’t been told about it. It’s like abroad: no one would want to go there if they hadn’t been told it existed.

That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.

Ghosts exist as thoughts, and some of them are hauntingly beautiful.

I believe discrimination still exists in society and we must fight it in every form.

It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose, should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. But the sea, though changed in a sinister way, will continue to exist: the threat is rather to life itself.

You breathe, you love, you feel – and that’s enough to learn to see beauty in details. Is it not an art of living to create happiness where it does not exist?