Martin Buber Quotes

You are always and forever in the moment of pure creation. So create who and what you are, and then experience that.

In the end, it's about what you want to be, not what you want to have.

Trust that the treasure we look for is hidden in the ground on which we stand.

To be a seeker implies that you need the future. If this is what you believe, it becomes true for you: you will need time until you realize that you don't need time to be who you are.

Know that life can only be found in the present moment.

I have discovered the meaning of life. It resides in what I can wrest from each day that I live.

Life only avails, not the having lived.

The most important step in emancipating oneself from social controls is the ability to find rewards in the events of each moment.

The great Western disease is, ‘I'll be happy when... When I get the money. When I get a BMW. When I get this job. When I get the relationship,’ Well, the reality is, you never get to when. The only way to find happiness is to understand that happiness is not out there. It's in here. And happiness is not next week. It's now.

Just write the best you can about the things that concern you most. I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.

Stop needing and start having. Stop wanting and start being.

There is a Soul within the Soul. Seek it out. There is a Treasure in your mountain. Seek it Out. A mystic in motion, if that's what you are, don't seek out there; seek inside.

If you have found your truth within yourself there is nothing more in this whole existence to find.

It takes a well-spent lifetime, and perhaps more, to crystalize in us that for which we exist.

The living moment is everything.

There will never be a time when your life is not this moment.

Everyone on earth has a treasure that awaits him.

Where is your Self to be found? Always in the deepest enchantment that you have experienced.

Only the present moment contains life.

God, as I use the word, is another name for what is. I always know God's intention: It's exactly what is in every moment.

The moment is the sole reality.

Your primary purpose is to be here fully, and to be total in whatever you do so that the preciousness of the present moment does not become reduced to a means to an end. And there you have your life purpose. That's the very foundation of your life.

At first, there is something you expect of life. Later, there is what life expects of you. By the time you realize these are the same, it can be too late for expectations. What we are being, not what we are to be. They are the same thing.

Know that the freedom you seek can be found right here where you are.

We search for happiness everywhere, but we are like Tolstoy's fabled beggar who spent his life sitting on a pot of gold, under him the whole time. Your treasure--your perfection--is within you already. But to claim it, you must leave the buy commotion of the mind and abandon the desires of the ego and enter into the silence of the heart.