being

Link	Quote	Tags	Author
7c20156	Don't go on discussing what a good person should be. Just be one.	being goodness inspirational self-actualization wisdom	Marcus Aurelius
519256a	They both listened silently to the water, which to them was not just water, but the voice of life, the voice of Being, the voice of perpetual Becoming.	being hesse life siddhartha unity water	Hermann Hesse
caaec9d	Life wasn't about becoming, was it? It was about being.	being life	Kate Atkinson
28d210c	When I am constantly running there is no time for being. When there is no time for being there is no time for listening.	being listen peace quiet self-care	Madeleine L'Engle
f214dc3	There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not any more what you will become. It is what you are and always will be. You are too young to know this. You are still becoming. Not being.	being self-acceptance	John Fowles
77bb3da	"And you require no answers", Foamfollower was laughing in his gladness, "You are sufficient to every question"."	being contentment enquiry	Stephen R. Donaldson
4a4c65a	Everything's different from us. That's why everything exists.	being clarity existence god life love meaning paganism pantheism reality seeing truth universe	Alberto Caeiro
2ed82b8	Try to choose carefully, Arren, when the great choices must be made. {...} But each deed you do, each act, binds you to itself and to its consequences, and makes you act again and yet again. Then very seldom do you come upon a space, a time like this, between act and act, when you may stop and simply be.	being choices	Ursula K. Le Guin
709aa5b	Nebulat ergo cogito.	being fog	Umberto Eco
63fa695	Let's only care about the place where we are. There's beauty enough in being here and not anywhere else. If there's someone beyond the curve in the road, Let them worry about what's past the curve in the road, That's what the road is to them.	being feeling god it-is-what-it-is life living meaning nature paganism pantheism worry	Alberto Caeiro
fe39a5e	True humility emerges from a sense of wonder and awe. It's an appreciation that our time on earth is limited but that there's something timeless at the core of every being. Embracing humility liberates us from the egotism that drives both perfectionism and self-sabotage, opening us to a deeper experience of self-worth.	being ego humility self-worth	Michael J Gelb
b6d1563	In the midst of the ubiquitous dealings with prostituted signs, the thing-poem was capable of opening up the prospect of returning to credible experiences of meaning. It did this by tying language to the gold standard of what things themselves communicate. Where randomness is disabled, authority should shine forth.	being communication poetry randomness rilke thing-poem	Peter Sloterdijk
7b725b2	The reason for the existence of the perfection conjured up in these fourteen lines is that it possesses ... the authorization to form a message that appeals from within itself. This power of appeal is exquisitely evident in the object evoked here. The perfect thing is that which articulates an entire principle of being. The poem has to perform no more and no less than to perceive the principle of being in the thing and adapt it to its own existence - with the aim of becoming a construct with an equal power to convey a message.	being poetry rilke thing-poem	Peter Sloterdijk
309de7e	What the poet has to say to the torso of the supposed Apollo, however, is more than a note on an excursion to the antiquities collection. The author's point is not that the thing depicts an extinct god who might be of interest to the humanistically educated, but that the god in the stone constitutes a thing-construct that is still on air. We are dealing with a document of how newer message ontology outgrew traditional theologies. Here, being itself is understood as having more power to speak and transmit, and more potent authority, than God, the ruling idol of religions. In modern times, even a God can find himself among the pretty figures that no longer mean anything to us - assuming they do not become openly irksome. The thing filled with being, however, does not cease to speak to us when its moment has come.	being god poet poetry rilke thing-poem	Peter Sloterdijk

7c20156

Don't go on discussing what a good person should be. Just be one.

being goodness inspirational self-actualization wisdom

Marcus Aurelius

519256a

They both listened silently to the water, which to them was not just water, but the voice of life, the voice of Being, the voice of perpetual Becoming.

being hesse life siddhartha unity water

Hermann Hesse

caaec9d

Life wasn't about becoming, was it? It was about being.

being life

Kate Atkinson

28d210c

When I am constantly running there is no time for being. When there is no time for being there is no time for listening.

being listen peace quiet self-care

Madeleine L'Engle

f214dc3

There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not any more what you will become. It is what you are and always will be. You are too young to know this. You are still becoming. Not being.

being self-acceptance

John Fowles

77bb3da

"And you require no answers", Foamfollower was laughing in his gladness, "You are sufficient to every question"."

being contentment enquiry

Stephen R. Donaldson

4a4c65a

Everything's different from us. That's why everything exists.

being clarity existence god life love meaning paganism pantheism reality seeing truth universe

Alberto Caeiro

2ed82b8

Try to choose carefully, Arren, when the great choices must be made. {...} But each deed you do, each act, binds you to itself and to its consequences, and makes you act again and yet again. Then very seldom do you come upon a space, a time like this, between act and act, when you may stop and simply be.

being choices

Ursula K. Le Guin

709aa5b

Nebulat ergo cogito.

being fog

Umberto Eco

63fa695

Let's only care about the place where we are. There's beauty enough in being here and not anywhere else. If there's someone beyond the curve in the road, Let them worry about what's past the curve in the road, That's what the road is to them.

being feeling god it-is-what-it-is life living meaning nature paganism pantheism worry

Alberto Caeiro

fe39a5e

True humility emerges from a sense of wonder and awe. It's an appreciation that our time on earth is limited but that there's something timeless at the core of every being. Embracing humility liberates us from the egotism that drives both perfectionism and self-sabotage, opening us to a deeper experience of self-worth.

being ego humility self-worth

Michael J Gelb

b6d1563

In the midst of the ubiquitous dealings with prostituted signs, the thing-poem was capable of opening up the prospect of returning to credible experiences of meaning. It did this by tying language to the gold standard of what things themselves communicate. Where randomness is disabled, authority should shine forth.

being communication poetry randomness rilke thing-poem

Peter Sloterdijk

7b725b2

The reason for the existence of the perfection conjured up in these fourteen lines is that it possesses ... the authorization to form a message that appeals from within itself. This power of appeal is exquisitely evident in the object evoked here. The perfect thing is that which articulates an entire principle of being. The poem has to perform no more and no less than to perceive the principle of being in the thing and adapt it to its own existence - with the aim of becoming a construct with an equal power to convey a message.

being poetry rilke thing-poem

Peter Sloterdijk

309de7e

What the poet has to say to the torso of the supposed Apollo, however, is more than a note on an excursion to the antiquities collection. The author's point is not that the thing depicts an extinct god who might be of interest to the humanistically educated, but that the god in the stone constitutes a thing-construct that is still on air. We are dealing with a document of how newer message ontology outgrew traditional theologies. Here, being itself is understood as having more power to speak and transmit, and more potent authority, than God, the ruling idol of religions. In modern times, even a God can find himself among the pretty figures that no longer mean anything to us - assuming they do not become openly irksome. The thing filled with being, however, does not cease to speak to us when its moment has come.

being god poet poetry rilke thing-poem

Peter Sloterdijk