"You start doing things from the state of being."

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tufguy

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"You start doing things from the state of being."

What does being mean here?
 

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Where did you find that sentence? It doesn't make sense.
 

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In the phrase the state of being, it means "existence".
 

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I don't know. It doesn't make sense, as you were told in post #2.
 

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I read it somewhere.
That's not good enough, tufguy. You've been a member long enough to know that.

When you read something you are going to ask us about, make a note of where you read it and who wrote it.
 

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This thread is going nowhere so I'm closing it.
 
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