*BEING - also see BECOMING, ESSENCE, REALITY
By complete surrender of selfhood, she slid from Becoming to Being, and found her true life hidden in God. (p537) (Mysticism)
Keeping the rules is essential to the good life but is never sufficient. The good life is really more being than doing. It is being that issues in doing, but it begins by the purification of the soul and continues in the cultivation of the soul. (Vanity & Meaning, p82)
Doing is a function of the body. Being is a function of the soul. The soul is concerned only with where you are going to be. Are you going to be in a place called fear or in a place called love? You are not on this planet to produce anything with your body. You are here to produce something with your soul. The soul is seeking to be You. (Conversations, p170-3)
Oneness, emptiness, nothingness point to the ultimate reality that cannot be named. In the end, there is not even a person. ??? There is only being itself in which everything has its continued existence. When reaching the stage of "awareness of his own being" surrender even this awareness in order to advance to an awareness of God. (Contemplation, p25)
Nothing in this world is [Am], because everything is always in a state of becoming [being] something else. But the ultimate reality, the world of Ideas wherein resides true being, not just becoming, is in itself changeless and eternal, and is therefore static. (Plato)
Being itself is "not a thing but is distinct from all things. It "is Everything and Nothing; it can be none of the existing things, and yet it is all. (Plotinus, Hist, p102)