William P. Young Quotes

Life is a verb, not a noun.

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.

No one knows how this world came into being. It is a creation of consciousness itself. It's extraordinary, a mystery.

I am all that there is of the most real.

Someday stars will wind down or blow up. Someday death will cover us all like the water of a lake and perhaps nothing will ever come to the surface to show that we were ever there. But we WERE there, and during the time we lived, we were alive. That's the truth - what is, what was, what will be - not what could be, what should have been, what never can be.

It is inconceivable that anything should be existing. It is not inconceivable that a lot of people should also be existing who are not interested in the fact that they exist. But it is certainly very odd.

I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing — a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process – an integral function of the universe.

The breath that sharpens life is life itself.

The moment is the sole reality.

Never forget: We are alive within mysteries.

Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?

As for you, you are alive. But it's not the same as living.

Maggie the cat is alive. I'm alive.

Well, what I don't get is why do we exist? I don't mean how, but why.' I watched the fireflies of his thoughts orbit his head. He said, 'we exist because we exist. . .we could imagine all sorts of universes like this one, but this is the one that happened.

...this moment... is the only physical reality you have.

Being is only Being for Dasein.

We express our being by creating. Creativity is a necessary sequel to being.

The last fact which knowledge can discover is that the world is a manifestation, and in every way a puzzling manifestation, of the universal will to live.

All objects exist in a moment of time.

Act out being alive, like a play. And after a while, a long while, it will be true.

There is no such thing as Success....That a thing is successful merely means that it is; a millionaire is successful in being a millionaire and a donkey in being a donkey.

I am talking to you, but the moment I am talking to you, the universe is being created and destroyed.

All things of the world are born of being; being is born of nonbeing.