"Human beings are not on earth to manufacture consume goods for one another but to share being; to celebrate being; to reverence being; and to fall ever more deeply in love and thankfulness for being."

-- Matthew Fox & Brian Swimme

"You don't have to try, you just have to be."

-- David Viscott

"Having is compensation for not being."

-- Pierre Delattre

"Knowledge is a function of being."

-- Aldous Huxley

"Being is all that is of value in this world, Being for being's sake."

-- Ananda Abinou

"If you want to be happy, be."

-- Tolstoy

"Men do not attract that which they want, but that which they are."

-- James Allen

"I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in the darkness, the astonishing light of your own being."

-- Hafiz

"The affirmation of one's essential being in spite of desires and anxieties creates joy."

-- Paul Tillich

"You dissolve discord, heal pain, dispel unconsciousness -- without doing anything -- simply be being and holding that frequency of intense presence."

-- Eckhart Tolle

"The moment we want to be something we are no longer free."

-- Krishnamurti

"It is not about changing yourself, it's about BEING yourself."

-- Denver Hudson

"Your duty is to be; and not to be this or that."

-- Ramana Maharshi

"If there is any peace it will come through being, not having."

-- Henry Miller