“Ecstasy should not be viewed as an unusual experience, but rather a natural experience - feeling all of the living matrix of existence around us.” ShouldFeelingsHappinessNaturalExistenceBuddhismEcstasyUnusual Author:Frederick Lenz
“How much suffering and fear, and How many harmful things are in existence? If all arises from clinging to the "I", What should I do with this great demon?” IfsShouldSufferingExistenceEgoAriseDemonShould IClinging Author:Shantideva
“What answer to the meaning of existence should one require beyond the right to exercise one's gifts?” ShouldAnswersExistenceExercise Author:W. H. Auden
“In a world where God does not exist, any reasonable person must see that the propensity toward selfishness should be the most venerated of all human traits. From this it stands to reason that any man, knowing the total expanse of his existence to be finite, who does not devote every moment of his life to acts of pure selfishness, must be seen as nothing more than a fool.” MenWorldLifeShouldHumansPersonsDoeReasonMomentsExistenceKnowingFoolPureSelfishnessReasonableTraitsFinitePropensityExpanse Author:Derek R. Audette
“Language should fulfill your individual existence as a wholesome human being... Language should be more than just getting by.” ShouldHumansIndividualLanguageHuman BeingsExistence Author:Chogyam Trungpa
“If suicide be supposed a crime, it is only cowardice can impel us to it. If it be no crime, both prudence and courage should engage us to rid ourselves at once of existence when it becomes a burden. It is the only way that we can then be useful to society, by setting an example which, if imitated, would preserve every one his chance for happiness in life, and would effectually free him from all danger or misery.” IfsWayShouldChanceExistenceCrimeDangerExampleSuicideMiseryBurdenSettingSettingsPreservesCowardicePrudenceLife HappinessSetting An Example Book:Essays: Moral, Political and Literary Source: Essays: Moral, Political and Literary
“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.” WayLifeShouldFirstsFormExistenceSituationEnvironmentSeaChangedActivityOceanThreatEnvironmentalCuriousConservationThreatenedOur EnvironmentSinisterEnvironmentalistBiologistMarine LifeSave The EnvironmentOcean SeaSilent SpringOceans And SeasSea LifeThe Wild NatureBeach And OceanBeach OceanOcean ConservationMarine BiologyMarine BiologistWild Sea Book:The Sea Around Us Source: The Sea Around Us
“The idea that a good God would send people to a burning hell is utterly damnable to me. I don't want to have anything to do with such a God. But while I cannot conceive of such a God, I do recognize the existence of a great universal power - a power which we cannot even begin to comprehend and might as well not attempt to. It may be a conscious mind, or it may not. I don't know. As a scientist I should like to know, but as a man, I am not so vitally concerned.” PeopleKnowsMenWantShouldMindWellsMayIdeasMightFearExistenceHellAtheismConsciousConcernedScientistUniversalRageBurningGood GodConscious Mind Author:Luther Burbank
“Existence is a mystery , and one should accept it as a mystery and not pretend to have any explanation .” ShouldExistenceAcceptingMysteryExplanation Author:Rajneesh