“If man did not exist as a world-spanning receptive realm of perception, if he were not engaged in this capacity, nothing at all could exist. 'Being,' in its traditional usage, means 'presence' and 'persistence.' To achieve presence, and thereby being, an entity requires some sort of open realm in which presence and persistence can take place. Thus an open realm of perception like that of human existence is the one being that makes being possible.”
![“To be a living being is not the ultimate state; there is something [the Reality] beyond, much more wonderful, which is neither being nor non-being, neither living nor not-living. It is a state of Pure Awareness, beyond the limitations of space and time.” quote by Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/bb4/sri-nisargadatta-maharaj-953_awareness_to-be-a-living-being-is-not-the-ultimate_995705.jpg)
