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“Whatever way you put it, I am here only because my world is here. When I took my first breath, my world was born with me. When I die, my world dies with me. In other words, I wasn't born into a world that was already here before me, nor do I live simply as one individual among millions of other individuals, nor do I leave everything behind to live on after me. People live thinking of themselves as members of a group or society. However, this isn't really true. Actually, I bring my own world into existence, live it out, and take it with me when I die.”

People Thinking World Way Firsts Dies Individual Born My Own Behinds Existence Millions Groups Members Breaths Really True Live Simply My Own World

Book:Opening the Hand of Thought: Approach to Zen

Source: Opening the Hand of Thought: Approach to Zen

“How could you not want to draw breath one more day? How could your own life be such a cheap commodity? But then I started to understand: when your existence is hell, death must be heaven.”

Want Life Is Heaven Existence Hell Draws Breaths Commodity One More Day

Book:The Storyteller

Source: The Storyteller

“We cannot too soon convince ourselves how easily we may be dispensed with in the world. What important personages we imagine ourselves to be! We think that we alone are the life of the circle in which we move; in our absence, we fancy that life, existence, breath will come to a general pause, and, alas, the gap which we leave is scarcely perceptible, so quickly is it filled again; nay, it is often the place, if not of something better, at least for something more agreeable.”

Ifs Thinking World Life May Important Moving Existence Imagine Breaths Filled Absence Circles Fancy Convince Gaps Pauses Alas Something Better

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“It's a fantastic thing that from moment to the next moment if God were to have stopped for a split second we would disintegrate into nothingness. And the incredible thing is that God breaths this breath and keeps each of us in existence, in being, even when we chose to reject God. Now if I had that kind of power I would snuff you out! But God doesn't.”

Ifs Kind Moments Next Existence Breaths Incredibles Fantastic Rejects Splits Nothingness Snuff

Author:Desmond Tutu

“To be grateful is to recognize the Love of God in everything He has given us - and He has given us everything. Every breath we draw is a gift of His love, every moment of existence is a grace, for it brings with it immense graces from Him. Gratitude therefore takes nothing for granted, is never unresponsive, is constantly awakening to new wonder and to praise of the goodness of God. For the grateful person knows that God is good, not by hearsay but by experience. And that is what makes all the difference.”

“The true work of art is born from the 'artist': a mysterious, enigmatic, and mystical creation. It detaches itself from him, it acquires an autonomous life, becomes a personality, an independent subject, animated with a spiritual breath, the living subject of a real existence of being.”

Art Real Spiritual Artist Born Existence Subjects Creation Personality Art Is Breaths Independent Mysterious Acquire Works Of Art Mystical Animated Serendipity Autonomous Enigmatic

Author:Wassily Kandinsky

“You are my whole existence and I will love you until my last breath.”

Whole Lasts Existence Love You Breaths

Author:Julian Fellowes

“I try desperately to conquer the transitory nature of my existence, to trap moments before they evenesce, to untangle the confusion of my past. Every instant disappears in a breath and immediately becomes the past; reality is ephemeral and changing, pure longing.”

Trying Moments Reality Past Existence Pure Breaths Longing Disappear Confusion Conquer Instant Traps My Past Ephemeral Transitory

Author:Isabel Allende

“To encounter the sacred is to be alive at the deepest center of human existence. Sacred places are the truest definitions of the earth; they stand for the earth immediately and forever; they are its flags and shields. If you would know the earth for what it really is, learn it through its sacred places. At Devil’s Tower or Canyon de Chelly or the Cahokia Mounds, you touch the pulse of the living planet; you feel its breath upon you. You become one with a spirit that pervades geologic time and space.”

“For a long time now I haven't existed. I'm utterly calm. No one distinguishes me from who I am. I just felt myself breath as if I'd done something new, or done it late. I'm beginning to be conscious of being conscious. Perhaps tomorrow I will wake up to myself and resume the course of my existence. I don't know if that will make more happy or less. I don't know anything.”

Ifs Knows Long Done Courses Felt Existence Havens Tomorrow Late Long Time Conscious Wake Up Breaths Calm Who I Am Something New Resumes

Book:The Book of Disquietude: By Bernardo Soares, Assistant Bookkeeper in the City of Lisbon

Source: The Book of Disquietude: By Bernardo Soares, Assistant Bookkeeper in the City of Lisbon

“Never before have I imagined my life without him—like this house, he is my only point of reference in this difficult existence, this unstable and frightening world. The thought of his leaving home fills me with a terror so strong, it takes my breath away. I feel like one of those seagulls covered in oil from a spill, drowning in a black tar of fear.”

World Feels Home House Strong Difficult Black Existence Breaths Leaving Terror Oil Covered Frightening Drowning Spills Unstable Seagull Leaving Home

Author:Tabitha Suzuma

“I have learned from experience that happiness is an acquired skill. Children are one of the greatest lessons in happiness, constantly challenging us to enjoy the moment, as the next one will not be the same. Gratitude is essential to happiness. Every time our children rush up to us and smile, we have something to be happy about; every time we get out of bed and can take a deep breath and go out for a walk, we have something to be happy about-that is the essence of a happy existence. Happiness is a muscle we must use, or it will wither away.”

“If you are a meditator, as your meditation goes on becoming more and more luminous, your intelligence will be growing to the last breath of your life. Not only that, even after the last breath your intelligence will continue to grow - because you are not going to die, only your body will be dying. And the body has nothing to do with intelligence, mind has nothing to do with intelligence. Intelligence is the quality of your awareness - more aware, more intelligent. And if you are totally aware, you are as intelligent as this whole existence is.”

Ifs Mind Whole Body Lasts Dies Grows Existence Quality Meditation Growing Dying Awareness Goes On Becoming Intelligent Breaths Intelligence Your Body Becoming More Luminous

Author:Rajneesh

“It is wrong to be harsh with the New York critics, unless one admits in the same breath that it is a condition of their existence that they should write entertainingly about something which is rarely worth writing about at all.”

Should Writing Existence Conditions New York Criticism Breaths Critics Harsh

Book:Raymond Chandler Speaking

Source: Raymond Chandler Speaking

“Even if you never have the chance to see or touch the ocean, the ocean touches you with every breath you take, every drop of water you drink, every bite you consume. Everyone, everywhere is inextricably connected to and utterly dependent upon the existence of the sea.”

Ifs Water Chance Existence Environment Sea Drink Ocean Breaths Connected Dependent Bites Drop Of Water

Author:Sylvia Earle