Quotes About Essence

It's a tradition that a writer will try to plant his flag in a certain city and protect that. The way to get your rep is to find the essence of the city and get it down on paper.

The essence of a tragedy, or even of a serious play, is the spiritual awakening, or regeneration, of the hero.

When blood is placed under a microscope, it appears as a number of minute globules or discs, but when seen by the trained clairvoyant as it courses through the living body, blood is found to be a gas, a spiritual essence.

All living things come hardwired with certain traits and characteristics that are part of our nature, meaning that these things come naturally to us: they're what we're meant to do, and they're how universal intelligence flows though us best. Birds gotta fly, fish gotta swim, etc.

Stand-up comedy is a very hard thing on the spirit. There are people who transcend it, like Jack Benny and Steve Martin, but in its essence, it's soul-destroying. It tends to turn people into control freaks.

I believe love's grip transcends gender. It transcends everything short of a very few primal needs like hunger, thirst, a need for oxygen.

Ben & Jerry's evolved into what it is doing and is trying to transition its supply chain, but this is essentially retrofitting. In the social enterprise movement, we see companies whose essence, the products they make, the reason they exist from day one, is because these people see something out in the world that they cannot accept.

I think when you translate songs, you lose the real essence and the meaning.

She wonders what else she will have to give up and what is the minimum of things with which one can survive without losing the feeling that one is human?

Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one.

It seems to me that whatever else is beautiful apart from absolute Beauty is beautiful because it partakes of that absolute Beauty, and for no other reason... [I]t is by Beauty that beautiful things are beautiful.

Si eres demasiado listo, puedes perderte lo esencial».

the central truth of Buddha's teaching: that we are all already essentially perfect.

As they die, they enable their body to be reabsorbed back into the light essence of the elements that created it

Good in the Beginning springs from the awareness that we and all sentient beings fundamentally have the buddha nature as our innermost essence, and that to realize it is to be free of ignorance and to put an end, finally, to suffering.

the original ground: the primordial purity of natural simplicity.

We have bodies. We have personalities. We have histories, stories and experiences. But we are not those things - we are Spirit.

The singularity of the term "psychology" should not mislead one into thinking that such a discipline was ever successfully founded. Or that there is an essence to "psychology" that could encompass the various definitions, methodologies, practices, world-views, and institutions that have used this designation.

He couldn't live without being a draki, and I couldn't live without him.

What labels me, negates me.

The meaning of the words is necessary and not their extent.

Being is the greatest paradox of life in front of death.

To be is the greatest paradox of life facing death.

Most trees were made of wood, and so were the rest.