Quotes About Essence

Metal. It was the key to everything.

It was a brutal truth. The best truths, however, were simple.

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Todas las cosas existen en tres reinos, Gaotona. Físico, cognitivo y espiritual. El físico es lo que sentimos, lo que tenemos delante. El cognitivo es cómo vemos un objeto y cómo ese objeto se ve a sí mismo. El reino espiritual contiene el alma del objeto, su esencia, además de las formas en que está conectado a las cosas y personas que lo rodean.

An awed voice in the back of his mind whispered, They're all the same. Metal, minds, men, all the same substance.…

Who we are matters immeasurably more than what we know or who we want to be.

How anyone becomes herself/is a mystery.

Live in the wisdom of accepted tenderness. Tenderness awakens within the security of knowing we are thoroughly and sincerely liked by someone... Scripture suggests that the essence of the divine nature is compassion and that the heart of God is defined by tenderness.

Be who you is, 'cause if you ain't who you is, you is who you ain't.

discipleship, or the following of Christ, was not simply the most important thing in life—it was the only thing.

All life with others carries the germ of the capacity of dissolution because souls are more than what they factually are.

God knows I never sought anything in you except yourself. I wanted simply you, nothing of yours.

To live in the world without belonging to the world summarizes the essence of the spiritual life. The spiritual life keeps us aware that our true house is not the house of fear, in which the powers of hatred and violence rule, but the house of love, where God resides.

If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.

Simplify, simplify.

Our life is frittered away by detail...Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let our affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand...Simplify, simplify!

Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only. Money is not required to buy one necessary of the soul.

Men say they know many things; But lo! they have taken wings, — The arts and sciences, And a thousand appliances; The wind that blows Is all that any body knows

Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!

Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.

Being is the great explainer.

One is enough. If you are acquainted with the principle, what do you care for a myriad instances and applications?

If we would aim at perfection in any thing, simplicity must not be overlooked.

Les détails nous empoisonnent la vie. Simplifiez, simplifiez.