Quotes About Essence

Is there more to me than the roles I live out? Can I open up to my identity apart from them, to the knowledge that I'm more than the personas I create?

more primal layers of creativity I yearn for, and at the same time, taking me down to an irreducible essence, all the way to the severity of my own dying. Down to the gnawed bone.

My true identity goes beyond the outer roles I play . . there is an authentic 'I' within . . . a divine spark within the soul.

Our true identity flows from our "center." Therefore we are living the fullness of who we truly are when we are living out of our center.

I came to believe that my true identity goes beyond the outer roles I play. It transcends the ego. I came to understand that there is an Authentic 'I' within - an 'I am', or divine spark within the soul.

Not frail or insubstantial, but distilled, concentrated.

There are not more than five cardinal tastes (sour, acrid, salt, sweet, bitter), yet combinations of them yield more flavors than can ever be tasted.

In fact the great truth of life is that the things most people think are important aren't really important at all.

she opened the lid and was hit with a musty smell she could immediately put a name to: camp. It was an unforgettable combination of mildew, wood smoke and outdoors, an essence that resisted laundering and airing out.

Animal? Ao pensar nesse termo sentiu um leve embaraço. Era um animal, Luisito? Ou era algo diferente? O que era afinal um animal? No desdém do uso comum, as pessoas esqueciam-se muito facilmente da essência dessa palavra. Anima , o termo latina para alma. Sim, o animal era alguém que possuía alma. Por outro lado, não estava muito certa de que se pudesse dizer a mesma coisa da maior parte dos seres humanos. In Um companheiro inesquecível, página 34

The quality of Scotchness was a highly concentrated essence, and should always be diluted. As an ingredient it was admirable; neat, it was as abominable as ammonia.

The real art in learning takes place as we move beyond proficiency, when our work becomes an expression of our essence.

He changed his behavior, but I don't believe people can change their essential natures.

It's a thing I am, not a thing I do. I can't stop being it.

El amor es una cosa y la palabra amor es otra cosa, y sólo el alma sabe dónde las dos se encuentran.

Must we think of the spirit as something divine that comes from without, that makes us divine? No, it is not that, to me it seems it is not that. The divine is in us, in our own intrinsic humanity, like a diamond in a mine. (La Corriente Infinita)

es precisamente esa ausencia de interés por la verdad –esa indiferencia ante el modo de ser de las cosas– lo que yo considero la esencia de la charlatanería." (Frankfurt, 2006: 44.).

la mayor miseria del historicismo es que no es capaz de pensar el cambio en las condiciones de novedad que impone el mismo cambio; de ahí su idea de que hay un destino histórico de acuerdo con el cual las entidades cambian desarrollando su esencia latente (cultural o económica). Cualquier

That is Mary: there are no suburbs to her personality: before you know it you are at her heart.

When carving stone, the sculptor removes everything that is not the statue. […] The art of revealing beauty lies in removing what conceals it. So, too, Patanjali [in the Yoga Sutras] tells us that wholeness exists within us. Our work is to chisel away at everything that is not essence, not Self.

How did you learn how to do this, whittle the complex down to simple?

It was simple. His world was Kate. If he denied that, he might as well stop breathing right now.

He loved her. Suddenly the world was a very simple place. He loved her, and that was all that mattered.

Suddenly the world was a simple place. He loved her, and that was all that mattered.