Being Quotes

“The first stage of the economy’s domination of social life brought about an evident degradation of being into having.”

“There is nothing to do, nothing to become. Just be.”

“To know is not the same as to be.”

“True knowledge is not attained by thinking. It is what you are; it is what you become.”

“You don't get what you want, you get what you are.”

“It is necessary to speak and to think what is; for being is, but nothing is not.”

“One path only is left for us to speak of, namely, that It is.”

“There's no place to get to. There's nothing to attain. There's nothing to be but what you are.”

“What the world wants is not so much what we have done, or what we have said, as what we are.”

“Why are there beings at all instead of nothing?”

“The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.”

“The main difficulty of the present age is a spiritual one and the problem is not how to be good but how to be.”

“Man, when he is merely what he is, is almost nothing.”

“We are so busy doing, doing, doing, that we have no time to be.”

“Love is not a feeling, it's a way of being. A way of being with yourself, a way of being with others.”

“We are so busy trying to get Christians to do something for God that we have forgotten that the first thing is to be someone for God.”

“We are too late for the gods and too early for Being. Being's poem, just begun, is man.”

“It’s not what a man does, but what he is, that counts.”

“Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.”

“Thou canst not know what is not - that is impossible - nor utter it.”