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Don't go on discussing what a good person should be. Just be one.
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goodness
wisdom
inspirational
self-actualization
being
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Marcus Aurelius |
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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.
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unity
life
siddhartha
hesse
being
water
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Hermann Hesse |
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Life wasn't about becoming, was it? It was about being.
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life
being
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Kate Atkinson |
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When I am constantly running there is no time for being. When there is no time for being there is no time for listening.
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self-care
listen
being
quiet
peace
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Madeleine L'Engle |
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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.
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self-acceptance
being
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John Fowles |
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"And you require no answers", Foamfollower was laughing in his gladness, "You are sufficient to every question"."
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enquiry
contentment
being
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Stephen R. Donaldson |
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Everything's different from us. That's why everything exists.
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universe
seeing
existence
meaning
reality
god
life
love
truth
pantheism
clarity
paganism
being
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Alberto Caeiro |
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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.
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being
choices
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Ursula K. Le Guin |
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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.
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nature
meaning
living
god
life
it-is-what-it-is
pantheism
feeling
worry
paganism
being
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Alberto Caeiro |
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Nebulat ergo cogito.
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fog
being
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Umberto Eco |
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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.
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poetry
communication
being
randomness
rilke
thing-poem
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Peter Sloterdijk |
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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.
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poetry
being
rilke
thing-poem
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Peter Sloterdijk |
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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.
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poetry
god
being
rilke
thing-poem
poet
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Peter Sloterdijk |
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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.
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ego
being
humility
self-worth
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