Quotes About Essence

There comes a time in every man's life when his thoughts lightly turn to setting his library on fire. To burn away the jungle to let him find the books that most matter to him.

If mutation and error and serendipity unlock new doors in the biosphere's adjacent possible, exaptations help us explore the new possibilities that lurk behind those doors. A match you light to illuminate a darkened room turns out to have a completely different use when you open a doorway and discover a room with a pile of logs and a fireplace in it. A tool that helps you see in one context ends up helping you keep warm in another. That's the essence of exaptation.

The psychologist David Myers has said that the essence of monotheistic belief is: (1) There is a God and (2) it's not me (and it's also not you).6 The secular equivalent is: (1) There is objective truth and (2) I don't know it (and neither do you). The same epistemic humility applies to the rationality that leads to truth. Perfect rationality and objective truth are aspirations that no mortal can ever claim to have attained.

We value people not just for what they do but for what they are.

I want you to be everything that's you, deep at the center of your being.

Love is the last and secret name of all the virtues.

The essence of Hinduism is the same essence of all true religions: Bhakti or pure love for God and genuine compassion for all beings.

Beauty comes from the inside.

Only love matters in the bits and pieces of a person's life.

The essence of all beauty, I call love.

The essence of all beauty, I call love, The attribute, the evidence, and end, The consummation to the inward sense Of beauty apprehended from without, I still call love.

Love doesn't adhere to time and boundaries does it? It just is.

About all you can do in life is be who you are.

Love is not an emotion. It is your very existence.

The energy that many people call love, is, in fact, the raw material from which the universe was built.

Only by love is life made real.

Without love our life is ... a ship without a rudder ... like a body without a soul.

Love is not a quality of 'God'- is it God's very Essence. It is the ALL-encompassing Reality of the Never-Ending Present. It is the Core of Your Existence.

Love is, without a doubt, the basis of everything.

Love so that you may actually be what you innately are.

Except for Love, nothing you see will remain forever.

I love to compete. That's the essence of who I am.

What "love" is I don't know if it's not the response of our deepest natures to one another.

The essence of how God thinks and feels is wholehearted love.