Being Is Becoming Quotes

#1. Our Being is Becoming, not stasis. Our Science is Utopia, our Reality is Eros, our Desire is Revolution.

Murray Bookchin

#2. Being uprooted from your own culture, provided you take with you the way of thinking and being that characterises the more integrated social culture from which you come, is not as disruptive to happiness and well-being as becoming part of a relatively fragmented culture.

Iain McGilchrist

#3. The state we call realization is simply being oneself, not knowing anything or becoming anything.

Ramana Maharshi

#4. Becoming is better than being

Carol S. Dweck

#5. When you realize the nature of mind, layers of confusion peel away. You don't actually "become" a buddha, you simply cease, slowly, to be deluded. And being a buddha is not being some omnipotent spiritual superman, but becoming at last a true human being.

Sogyal Rinpoche

#6. There is a gift in experiencing so much tragedy of life from a young age, you gain the wisdom earlier to make better choices for later.

Nikki Rowe

#7. Your book is a springboard and integral strategic part of your overall game plan. Being an author positions you strongly upon your platform. It is the passport which will start you on your journey to becoming the recognized authority in the niche or space that you work in or aspire to work in.

Kytka Hilmar-Jezek

#8. If we are not careful, it is all too easy to fall into becoming more of a human doing than a human being, and forget who is doing all the doing, and why.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

#9. Services provided to individuals who are irreversibly prevented from being or becoming participating citizens are not basic and should not be guaranteed. An obvious example is not guaranteeing health services to patients with dementia.

Ezekiel Emanuel

#10. Climbing is this long term, lifelong journey. It's really important to just take your time with it and keep it fun. I've seen a lot of people burn out because it starts becoming this job for them. It stops being fun. For me, it's been really important to keep it enjoyable. Listen to your motivation.

Chris Sharma

#11. The paucity of near-future U.S. scifi is about the country becoming pessimistic, not being able to see the future clearly. There's a trend in U.S. scifi towards militarism and far-future stuff.

Charles Stross

#12. Becoming is better than being. The fixed mindset does not allow people the luxury of becoming. They have to already be.

Carol S. Dweck

#13. It is not so much being all that we dream of becoming as it is un-becoming all that is covering our being.

Sepi

#14. You and I wear the dangerous looseness of doom and find it becoming. Life,for eternal us,is now;and now is much too busy being a little more than everything to seem anything,catastrophic included.

E. E. Cummings

#15. Our model of the cosmos must be as inexhaustible as the cosmos. A complexity that includes not only duration but creation, not only being but becoming, not only geometry but ethics. It is not the answer we are after, but only how to ask the question.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#16. The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, never being.

Albert Einstein

#17. The idea of being productive, the idea of producing many books is going to lead you toward you becoming a better and better writer.

Walter Mosley

#18. Be - don't try to become. Being is enlightenment, becoming is ignorance.

Rajneesh

#19. Taking without being taken in the anguish of becoming prey is the dangerous game of adolescent feminine sexuality.

Simone De Beauvoir

#20. I don't think about becoming a head coach. I really don't. I'm not oblivious of people who mention it. When you are in any business, people expect to aspire to the top. I guess everyone is supposed to aspire to being the man at the top of the heap. But I never have.

Joe Greene

#21. Being a writer is a gift, being an author is amazing, becoming a best seller is everyone's dream

LaQuita Cameron

#22. The distinction of being without an honour is becoming a rare and valuable one and should not become extinct.

Robert Peel

#23. The danger of oppression is not just being oppressed, it's becoming an oppressor,

Jon Stewart

#24. It has nothing to do with your desires and their fulfillment, with your hopes and their fulfillment; it is already the case. But to see the celebration that is already happening at the deepest core of your being you will have to drop becoming, you will have to understand the futility of becoming.

Rajneesh

#25. The distinction between reality and fiction in America seems like it is becoming really blurry. With its religious fanaticism, reality TV programs and fake news broadcasts being aired by the government, the States feel like they are entering the Dark Ages.

Dana Schutz

#26. [Let] go of your attachments: your attachment to being right, to having total control, or to living forever. This process of letting go is integral to the process of becoming whole.

Judith Hanson Lasater

#27. Joint-stock companies are yet in their infancy, and incorporated capital, instead of being a thing which can be overturned, is a thing which is becoming more and more indispensable.

William Graham Sumner

#28. Life is not about having and getting. It's about being and becoming.

Myrna Loy

#29. The ugly duckling is a misunderstood universal myth. It's not about turning into a blonde Barbie doll or becoming what you dream of being; it's about self-revelation, becoming who you are.

Baz Luhrmann

#30. Golf is a game, and talk and discussion is all to the interests of the game. Anything that keeps the game alive and prevents us being bored with it is an advantage. Anything that makes us think about it, talk about it, and dream about it is all to the good and prevents the game becoming dead.

Alister MacKenzie

#31. It is impossible to pretend that you are not heir to, and therefore, however inadequately or unwillingly, responsible to, and for, the time and place that give you life
without becoming, at very best, a dangerously disoriented human being.

James A. Baldwin

#32. The true tragedy in most people's lives is that they are far better than they imagine themselves to be and, as a result, end up being much less than they might be.

Earl R. Smith II

#33. Becoming is superior to being.

Paul Klee

#34. The thing about being powerful is that it may be a limited edition... as the source of the power goes you go; but becoming empowered will last a lifetime.

Johnnie Dent Jr.

#35. I could never overstate the importance of a musician's need to develop his or her ear. Actually, I believe that developing a good 'inner ear' - the art of being able to decipher musical components solely through listening - is the most important element in becoming a good musician.

Steve Vai

#36. The first step toward becoming extraordinary is, of course, to stop being ordinary.

Seth Godin

#37. As my prayer became more attentive and inward, I had less and less to say. I finally became completely silent ... This is how it is. To pray does not mean to listen to oneself speaking. Prayer involves becoming silent, and being silent, and waiting until God is heard.

Soren Kierkegaard

#38. An important part of becoming your best self is being very careful about your self-talk and self-stories.

Bryant McGill

#39. Life is not a having and a getting, but a being and a becoming.

Matthew Arnold

#40. Living, there is no happiness in that. Living: carrying one's painful self through the world.
But being, being is happiness. Being: Becoming a fountain, a fountain on which the universe falls like warm rain.

Milan Kundera

#41. Average people have a world view that says being comfortable with who and where they are in life is the key to happiness. The great ones have a world view that says happiness is learning, growing and becoming.

Steve Siebold

#42. I've always had a huge fear of dying or becoming ill. The thing I'm most afraid of, though, is being alone, which I think a lot of performers fear. It's why we seek the limelight - so we're not alone, were adored. We're loved, so people want to be around us. The fear of being alone drives my life.

Jennifer Lopez

#43. My attention is constantly being caught! I'm constantly learning, constantly becoming fascinated by new things - I'm lucky that I read incredibly quickly and absorb a lot of information easily, because otherwise I don't think I'd ever get my head out of a book!

Elise Andrew

#44. Being, I imagine, must be very simple. It is Becoming which is so messy and which I am all for.

James Tiptree Jr.

#45. Any human being who is becoming independent of conditionings, of religions, scriptures, prophets and messiahs, has arrived home. He has found the treasure which was hidden in his own being.

Rajneesh

#46. There is no fixed, true and real person inside of you or me, precisely because being a person necessarily implies becoming a person, being in process.

John Powell

#47. We can understand first of all that what is happening in the world of becoming, the world we all experience as beings, is that novelty is entering into being, and it is changing the modalities of the real world toward greater and greater levels of integration.

Terence McKenna

#48. Being a father of three children and grandfather to nine, I do think that this thing called 'parenting' is becoming increasingly difficult.

Craig T. Nelson

#49. Indie rock is just as susceptible - if not more susceptible - to all the gross things about people becoming total ass clowns in music, and only worrying about money and image. I'm not interested in being a part of that.

Justin Vernon

#50. You must learn to see the world as being produced by evolution; as a something which is evolving and becoming, not as a finished work.

Wallace D. Wattles

#51. All goals apart from the means are illusions; becoming is a denial of being.

Bruce Lee

#52. Becoming a politician is the only step down I could take from being a journalist.

Jim Hightower

#53. Becoming is not a contradiction of being but the epiphany of being.

Ananda K. Coomaraswamy

#54. During painful times, when you feel a terrible void, think how the capacity of your soul is being enlarged so that it can receive God- becoming as it were, infinite as God is infinite.

Elizabeth Of The Trinity

#55. Most people decide at some point that it is better ... to be enthralled with what is impoverished or abusive than not to be enthralled at all and so to lose the condition of one's being and becoming.

Maggie Nelson

#56. Becoming a Christian is the work of a moment; being a Christian is the work of a lifetime.

Billy Graham

#57. Briefly summarising, we can express the proposed law thus: consciousness is bound up with learning in organic substance; organic competence is unconscious. Still more briefly, and put in a form which is admittedly rather obscure and open to misunderstanding: Becoming is conscious, being unconscious.

Erwin Schrodinger

#58. Love becomes perfect only when it transcends itself
Becoming One with its object; Producing Unity of Being.

Hakim

#59. True healing means drawing the circle of our being larger and becoming more inclusive, more capable of loving. In this sense, healing is not for the sick alone, but for all humankind.

Richard Moss

#60. Nothing is constant but change! All existence is a perpetual flux of "being and becoming!" That is the broad lesson of the evolution of the world.

Ernst Haeckel

#61. Wrongly do the Greeks suppose that aught begins or ceases to be; for nothing comes into being or is destroyed; but all is an aggregation or secretion of preexisting things; so that all becoming might more correctly be called becoming mixed, and all corruption, becoming separate.

Anaxagoras

#62. All you have to do to quickly become OLD is to slowly GIVE UP being ALIVE.

Carew Papritz

#63. An important key to not becoming overwhelmed by what is going on around us is looking for evidences of God's hand at work in the midst of the turmoil and being "simply overwhelmed with thankfulness to Him.

Nancy Leigh DeMoss

#64. Becoming a leader is the same as becoming a fully integrated human being,

Ken Wilber

#65. Between normality and madness, which are basically the same thing, there exists an intermediary stage: it is called "being different." And people were becoming more and more afraid of "being different.

Paulo Coelho

#66. So now that the illusion of infinite growth is being exposed, the corresponding ballooning entitlements that enticed the larger public to become complicit in the illusion are becoming unglued.

Charles Hugh Smith

#67. Adoption is a wonderful way of becoming a family. If being a biological parent is any better or more rewarding than being an adoptive parent, I really don't think I could stand it!

Kathleen Silber

#68. The difficulty with becoming a patient is that as soon as you get horizontal, part of your being yearns, not for a doctor, but for a medicine man.

Shana Alexander

#69. The most difficult part is to convince a human being that in the entire creation, he is the most highly evolved being; that he is capable of becoming a glorious personality, a beautiful, peaceful angel.

Nirmala Srivastava

#70. He was unique to her among men because he's impressed her as being not her admirer her superior. In some mysterious way he was becoming a part of her conscience as one woman who's nature is an object of reverential belief may become a new conscience to a man.

George Eliot

#71. For where grace is, there is a remitting, and where remitting is, there is no punishment. Punishment then being removed, and righteousness succeeding from faith, there is no obstacle to our becoming heirs of the promise.

Philip Schaff

#72. Enlightenment is a destructive process. It
has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier. Enlightenment is the
crumbling away of untruth. It's seeing
through the facade of pretence. It's the
complete eradication of everything we
imagined to be true.

Adyashanti

#73. Christian living does not mean to be good but to become good; not to be well, but to get well; not being but becoming; nor rest but training. We are not yet, but we shall be. It has not yet happened, but it is the way. Not everything shines and sparkles as yet, but everything is getting better.

Martin Luther

#74. The becoming still can never be the being still; only with the death of becoming is there being.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#75. Religion is realization; not talk, nor doctrine, nor theories however beautiful they may be. It is being and becoming, not hearing, or acknowledging; it is the whole soul becoming what it believes.

Swami Vivekananda

#76. So one aspect of becoming a Christian is having to leave behind what everyone else thinks and wants, the prevailing standards, in order to enter the light of the truth of our being, and aided by that light to find the right path. Mary

Pope Benedict XVI

#77. Time and space are but physiological colors which the eye makes, but the soul is light; where it is, is day; where it was, is night; and history is an impertinence and an injury, if it be any thing more than a cheerful apologue or parable of my being and becoming.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#78. The difference between PR and social media is that PR is about positioning, and social media is about becoming, being and improving.

Chris Brogan

#79. The human being taken in his profound reality as well as in his great tension of becoming is a divided being, a being which divides again, having permitted himself the illusion of unity for barely an instant. He divides and then reunites.

Gaston Bachelard

#80. A working definition of fathering might be this: fathering is the act of guiding a child to behave in ways that lead to the child's becoming a secure child in full, thus increasing his or her chances of being happy and fruitful as a young adult.

Clyde Edgerton

#81. Disagreement is part of being a person who has choices. One of those choices is to respect others and engage in intelligent conversation about differences of opinion without becoming enemies, eventually allowing us to move forward to compromise.

Ben Carson

#82. This is what I mean by becoming religious: no guilt, no ego, no trip of any kind ... just being herenow ... being with the trees and the birds and the rivers and the mountains and the stars.

Rajneesh

#83. To sing is an expression of your being, a being which is becoming.

Maria Callas

#84. ... People are rivers, always ready to move from one state of being into another. It is not fair, to treat people as if they are finished beings. Everyone is always becoming and unbecoming.

Kathleen Winter

#85. There is no crime greater, or more worthy of punishment, than being strange and frightened among the strange and frightened; except assimilation to the end of becoming strange and frightened, but apart from ones own real self.

Israel Horovitz

#86. It is one thing to be brave in front of others, perhaps for fear of being branded a coward and becoming diminished in their eyes, but another entirely to be brave when there is nobody to witness your courage. The latter is an elemental bravery, a strength of spirit and character.

John Connolly

#87. Changing, being real and becoming who you want to be, is hard work. Right

Katherine Reay

#88. Being is always becoming; people change and stay the same. What is true for bodies is also true for selves: even the most honest person has many faces, none of which are false.

Dexter Palmer

#89. Man's place is to be the first without being the last ... [I]t's man's place to be the teacher of all the rest who are capable of becoming what he's become.

Daniel Quinn

#90. To be or not to be?' That is not the question. What is the question? The question is not one of being, but of becoming. 'To become more or not to become more' This is the question faced by each intelligence in our universe.

Truman G. Madsen

#91. Becoming is better than being. Perfectionism doesn't exist. We need to stretch ourselves and continue learning.

Iben Dissing Sandahl

#92. The mind unlearned in reverence, says Bonaventure (1221-1274), is in danger of becoming so captivated by the spectacle of beings as to be altogether forgetful of being in itself; and our mechanistic approach to the world is nothing but ontological obliviousness translated into a living tradition.

David Bentley

#93. Yoga is the journey from just eating and sleeping to becoming an ecstatic being. This is the aspiration of life itself.

Jaggi Vasudev

#94. If you start becoming withdrawn and looking over your shoulder, being careful about what you say, that's being paranoid. This is an open, accessible team. That's been my trademark for years.

Art Modell

#95. Your unstoppable nature is becoming and blooming - you simply, are. Go easy.

Bryant McGill

#96. Man is not a being who stands still, he is a being in the process of becoming. The more he enables himself to become, the more he fulfills his true mission.

Rudolf Steiner

#97. I think the biggest thing that people fear when it comes to art becoming a business is those authentic, pure aspirations of art being compromised.

Shepard Fairey

#98. Just being an obedient Christian is increasingly becoming a social, political, legal issue ...

John Piper

#99. The simplest way of becoming his light is by being kind and loving, thoughtful, and sincere with others: 'By this they will know that you are his disciples.'

Mother Teresa

#100. Part of the reason that I left the Pumpkins is because it was becoming all-consuming. Being the only member of that band who had two kids and a wife, it was a hard decision, but ultimately it was a decision I'm comfortable with.

Jimmy Chamberlin