Physical Existence Quotes

“My body is the real problem here. If I could be bodiless - or at least, senseless - I’d be better off.”
― Melissa Broder, Death Valley

“The fact that we are eternal spiritual beings doesn’t detract from the importance of our temporary physical existence. On the contrary, it makes that existence all the more precious and remarkable.”
― Linda Bender, Animal Wisdom: Learning from the Spiritual Lives of Animals

“The Sufi is a person of rare courage. He or she looks into the naked face of Reality and does not flinch. While it may be difficult to face the facts of physical existence so honestly, half the battle is won once you acknowledge your place in the natural world. There is a 'fearful symmetry' to the face of nature. All of creation contains infinity within it. A harmonious relation can be achieved with the facts of existence, but this can only be discovered through an honest appraisal of your physical existence on the Earth.”
― Laurence Galian, The Sun at Midnight: The Revealed Mysteries of the Ahlul Bayt Sufis

“However high and soaring to the sky our ideas may be, we are firmly fixed to the earth; there is no way of escaping this physical existence.”
― Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki, The Training Of The Zen Buddhist Monk