Quotes About Essence

Todo lo que no tiende a la pureza de la nada está embebido de una feroz vulgaridad

Of all the bonds which link us to things, there is not one which fails to slacken and dissolve under the influence of suffering, which frees us from everything except the obsession of ourselves and the sensation of being irrevocably individual. Suffering is solitude hypostatized as essence.

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 were separated.

Bring me the sunset in a cup.

Words are but the shell; meditation is the kernel.

Christianity is precisely the religion par excellence, because it exhibits and manifests, to the fullest extent, the very nature and essence of every religious system, which is the impoverishment, enslavement, and annihilation of humanity for the benefit of divinity.

This flagrant negation of humanity which constitutes the very essence of the State is, from the standpoint of the State, its supreme duty and its greatest virtue. It bears the name patriotism, and it constitutes the entire transcendent morality of the State.

There are those whose character is like a chestnut without a kernel.

Descubrí que el cuerpo es un mero recipiente en el momento en que el alma deja de mirarte

Ambiguity is the essence of Irish writing, I think.

The soul does not grow by addition but by subtraction," wrote the fourteenth-century mystic Meister Eckhart.

we believe there is something essential we don't have that's obtainable. what we long for doesn't exist, not anywhere. the ache is in the belief)

Annie Biggs was her

Oversimplified perhaps, this in essence is the problem known to nineteenth-century diplomacy as the Eastern Question.

It is undoubtedly true that there is no spirit without substance, no substance without spirit, latent or expressed; but a painting of a man may seem at a distance to be a man.

Journey into Power is about excavating the amazing, radiant self already inside you. Within you is a power that is already perfect, and the true essence of seeking on this journey is accepting .

Transformation comes not by adding things on but by removing what didn't belong in the first place.

Desire is the essence of a man.

whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived

By reality and perfection I mean the same thing.

By that which is self-caused , I mean that of which the essence involves existence, or that of which the nature is only conceivable as existent.

Even more, in the created thing, is a perfection that she exists; since the greatest of all imperfections is, not to exist.

By substance, I mean that which is in itself, and is conceived through itself: in

Desire is the actual essence of man, in so far as it is conceived, as determined to a particular activity by some given modification of itself.