Quotes About Essence

Are you the thing you want most, or its' opposite? If I want nothing more than water, is it because I am water or because I have none?

In the best stories that sense comes through: it is what it is.

He believed, you know, that it takes a material body, a spiritual body, and a soul, to make a man. Death is simply the slipping off of the outer body, as a husk slips off from its kernel. The deathless frame stands ready then for the soul's untrammeled occupation.

Find out who you are and be that person. That's what your soul was put on this Earth to be. Find that truth, live that truth and everything else will come.

I would like to do whatever it is that presses the essence from the hour.

He couldn't imagine how he had lived without her for seven years. She was like sunlight. Like food and drink.

An angel can long subsist on its own substance.

Love in its essence is spiritual fire.

for every man's soul is in a spiritual body after it has cast off the material coverings which it carried about in the world.

Everyday is a gift from God and each day is filled with opportunities that may never come your way again until you leave this planet (earth). Thus, endeavour to make the most of the present moment. For, it's wisdom to do just that. Mind you, whoever that wastes his or her own time equally wastes his or her own life unknowingly. Yes! you heard me right as ever, time is of the essence. IMHO in my (honest) humble opinion, anyway. ~Emeasoba George.

Love is beyond human description or definition. That is to say, it can never be overemphasized, no matter how well you try to describe it or define it. In fact, there is more to it (Love) than you can imagine. -Emeasoba George

The essence of true Love is selflessness and kindness. -Emeasoba George

What oxygen is to the lungs, such is hope to the meaning of life.

We are born to Exist, not to know, to be, not to assert ourselves.

We say: he has no talent, only tone. But tone is precisely what cannot be invented—we're born with it. Tone is an inherited grace, the privilege some of us have of making our organic pulsations felt—tone is more than talent, it is its essence.

Magnificat de Bach. Remué jusqu'aux larmes. Il est impossible que ce qui s'y exprime n'ait qu'une réalité subjective. L'« âme » doit être de la même essence que l'absolu. Et c'est le Vedânta qui a raison.

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Je sais que ma naissance est un hasard, un accident risible, et cependant, dès que Je m'oublie, Je me comporte comme si elle était un évènement capital, indispensable à la marche et à l'équilibre du monde

That faint light in each of us which dates back to before our birth, to before all births, is what must be protected if we want to rejoin that remote glory from which we shall never know why we are separated.

Être, c'est être coincé.

He who is inclined to lust is merciful and tender-hearted; those who are inclined to purity are not so' (Saint John Climacus). It took a saint, neither more nor less, to denounce so distinctly and so vigorously not the lies but the very essence of Christian morality, and indeed of all morality.

According to Meister Eckhart, divinity precedes God, being His essence, his unfathomable depth. What should we find at man's inmost core which defines his substance in opposition to the divine essence? Neurasthenia – which is to man what divinity is to God.

Ferocity occurs in all conditions save in joy. Schadenfreude, malicious joy, is a misrepresentation. To do evil is a pleasure, not a joy. Joy, the one true victory over the world, is pure in its essence, hence irreducible to pleasure, which is always suspect, both in itself and in its manifestations.

An idea, a being, anything which becomes incarnate loses identity, turns grotesque.