Quotes About Essence

Surely, Haagar was the stronger when it came to will, but Myown drew her life directly from her soul.

Bom ou mau, aquilo que sai da Paris é Paris, seja uma carta, um pedaço de pão, um par de sapatos ou um poema.

For us life is a fact, no less, and, above all, no more.

Es como un caballo, sólo adora las cosas puras y sin mezcla. Los colores primarios, la escala de siete notas. No es humana, creeme.

Amor, ceremonia ontologizante, dadora de ser.

Salt and the center of the world have to be there, in that spot on the tablecloth.

Only in dreams, in poetry, in play do we sometimes arrive at what we were before we were this thing that, who knows, we are.

In the idea we recognize our true homeland.

She smelled like herself, like the wind through a tree.

We're clocks, Abelard. Nothing more.

It's one of those easy stories because in essence it explains it all.

Freedom of movement is the very essence of our free society -- once the right to travel is curtailed, all other rights suffer.

Behind every great hatred is a love story. For I am a man who has known and tasted love. I say "a man" because that is how I know myself. Look at me, and what do you see? Do I not take the form of a man? Do I not feel as you do, suffer as you do, love as you do, mourn as you do? What is the essence of a man, if not these things?

It is an interesting truth that the human body, liberated from its head, is in essence a bag of blood with a built-in straw. Holding

Look at me, and what do you see? Do I not take the form of a man? Do I not feel as you do, suffer as you do, love as you do, mourn as you do? What is the essence of a man, if not these things?

It is an interesting truth that the human body, liberated from its head, is in essence a bag of blood with a built-in straw.

Maybe we don't have the same definition of about what's beautiful. So define it. Define true beauty.

What in heaven's name was the real essence of this beauty? Was it the precision of nature with its physical laws, or was it nature's mercilessness, ceaselessly resisting man's understanding?

Suppose you scrub your ethical skin until it shines, but inside there is no music, then what? Mohammed's son pores over words, and points out this and that, but if his chest is not soaked dark with love, then what? The Yogi comes along in his famous orange, but if inside he is colorless, then what?

Love is the essence of this religion. I pray that we will approach all of our questions and concerns, especially the most difficult and intimate questions, with love, in order to be able more and more to solve our problems with love. The Sufi lives in a compassionate and passionate universe, a universe born from a spark of love. (p. 108)

Any act without the fragrance of Being is lost.

What we most need is what we already are: our essential Self. There is no escape; there is only coming home [...] The submission of the lower self to the Higher Self, of the self to the Whole in each moment, becomes the central fact of existence. Submission is to live for one's Self - the eternal I - not for one's ego..." ? Kabir Edmund Helminski, Living Presence: A Sufi Way to Mindfulness & the Essential Self

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

Man is a creature whose substance is faith. What his faith is, he is.