Quotes About Essence

Happiness consists in finding out precisely what the one thing necessary may be, in our lives, and in gladly relinquishing all the rest. For then, by a divine paradox, we find that everything else is given us together with the one thing we needed.

For our duties and our needs, in all the fundamental things for which we were created, come down in practice to the same thing.

We are warmed by the fire, not by the smoke of the fire. We are carried over the sea by a ship, not by the wake of a ship. So too, what we are is to be sought in the invisible depths of our own being, not in our outward reflection in our own acts.

THE only true joy on earth is to escape from the prison of our own false self, and enter by love into union with the Life Who dwells and sings within the essence of every creature and in the core of our own souls. In His love we possess

It is a law of man's nature, written into his very essence, and just as much a part of him as the desire to build houses and cultivate the land and marry and have children and read books and sing songs, that he should want to stand together with other men in order to acknowledge their common dependence on God, their Father and Creator.

Coercion from outside, strong temperamental inclinations and passions within ourselves, do nothing to effect the essence of our freedom. They simply define its action by imposing certain limits on it.

We are warmed by fire, not by the smoke of the fire. We are carried over the sea by a ship, not by the wake of a ship. So too, what we are is to be sought in the invisible depths of our own being, not in our outward reflection in our own acts. We must find our real selves not in the froth stirred up by the impact of our being upon the beings around us, but in our own soul which is the principle of all our acts.

each of us holds at our core a deep desire to become "more of who we really are.

The essence of good government is trust.

The world is defined by smells – not words or shapes or sounds.

Perfume should tell a story –

Some people think what you're supposed to do in life is fill yourself up with loads of things like names, the more the better. But that's not how it works.

Beauty comes from the inside.

There is no origin for the word love. It is one of the first words and has always meant only itself.

Your body is a jewel box.....the jewel is your soul

Love has no meaning or amount.

Man is an appearance; God is a reality.

I beg you to understand and accept that no matter what name, I am what I am.

You can't live long without water and you can't live a long time without wisdom. You need to drink both.

a myth is the matrix that is transformed from culture to culture, but basically remains essentially the same.

These moments move fast, if they are going to move at all, and with no superfluous nonsense. If they don't move, they die.

The true heart is the voice of the spirit.

The life essence - this spirit or energy-force is within every human being, within all animals, birds and creatures that swim and crawl, within plants and trees, and within rocks and stones and minerals. It is even within the very elements themselves - within Water and Fire and Earth and even Air, for it is in the very winds that freshen and vitalise us and keep us 'alive'.

We are all part of a universal game. Returning to our essence while living in the world is the object of the game. The earth is the game board, and we are the pieces on the board. We move around and around until we remember who we really are, and then we can be taken off the board. At that point, we are no longer the game-piece, but the player; we've won the game.