Quotes About Essence

Despite all our plans to change, we never voluntarily do so at the core, in our essence, which is usually where we find the knot of our worst defects. I could change it — and I surely would have already — if it were a visible defect, like a limp or acne; but it isn't.

Magic's the fifth element, along with earth, air, fire, and water, from which everything is composed.

I once asked one of the most successful leaders of the telecom industry what she considered to be the essence of her leadership work. She responded, "I am facilitating the opening process so my team can sense and seize emerging opportunities as they arise from the fast paced business environment we are operating in.

You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.

start with one true thing

If we are to do justice to the essence of the thing we call spirit, we should really speak of a "higher" consciousness rather than of the unconscious.

One cannot live from anything except what one is.

Nothing could persuade me that "in the image of God" applied only to man. In fact it seemed to me that the high mountains, the rivers, lakes, trees, flowers and animals far better exemplified the essence of God than men with their ridiculous clothes, their meanness, vanity, mendacity, and abhorrent egotism -

for he was obviously and unself-consciously the person he had always been.

One could say that he (Jesus Christ) himself was the ripe fruit of antiquity; he gathered up in himself the essence of the wisdom of the Near East, contained the juice of Egypt and of Greece, and came together with the mob. And that caused a great whirlwind which moved masses and formed them, which brought about that form which we call Christianity. Jung, C. G.. Nietzsche's Zarathustra: Notes of the Seminar given in 1934-1939. Two Volumes: 1-2, unabridged (Jung Seminars) (p. 1032)

Perhaps this sounds very simple, but simple things are always the most difficult. In actual life it requires the greatest discipline to be simple, and the acceptance of oneself is the essence of the moral problem and the epitome of a whole outlook upon life.

It's erroneous to believe that religions differ in their innermost essence. Strictly speaking, it's always one and the same religion. Every subsequent form of religion is the meaning of the antecedent.

Hay momento que definen nuestra existencia, momentos que, si los reconocemos, suponen un giro definitivo en nuestra vida. Como perlas en un hilo, la acumulación de tales momentos, con el tiempo, constituyen la esencia de nuestra existencia, proporcionándonos consuelo cuando nuestro fin se acerca.

We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.

Life is so much when we focus on what truly matters.

We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.

If what we are called is not important, why bother with a name at all?

The strongest magic doesn't simply act upon us, it becomes us. Running with our blood, holding us upright from the inside out, just like our bones.

Like being able to hold the clear, pure essence of the very world itself in within your hands, and then take it in with one long swallow.

Se algo era merda, cheiraria a merda por mais que se jogasse perfume em cima.

Pursuit and seduction are the essence of SEXuality. It's part of the sizzle.

Paint the essential character of things.

The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.

I am a symbol of my soul.