Quotes About Essence

The essence of writing? A hound chasing a fox: irrationally compelled to win the prize and eventual disappointment that it's eluded you.

Memories are all the same at their core; it's just us trying to keep each other alive, the best parts anyway.

You can pretend to be something other than who you are but eventually you will run out of energy to continue because that's not authentically you.

Souls were webs of light that contained the essence of a human's life. Memories and loves, children and families. Every moment of life, pressing in

Souls were webs of light that contained the essence of a human's life.

The girl Dora might be water, but his Betty is oil. You can't take oil lightly. It seeps into your skin. It marks you.

Whatever you are physically...male or female, strong or weak, ill or healthy--all those things matter less than what your heart contains. If you have the soul of a warrior, you are a warrior. All those other things, they are the glass that contains the lamp, but you are the light inside.

Evil and Good are things in their own essebce and not made good or evil by the giver. but if he gives you good so cal him; if evil springs from him, do not name it mine till ye know better its true fount -Lucifer

Of what is the body made? It is made of emptiness and rhythm. At the ultimate heart of the body, at the heart of the world, there is no solidity... there is only the dance.

Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter.

Someday you're going to have to learn to separate what seems to be important from what really is important.

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

Men are men ... Dragons are dragons.

A thing without a name has no substance. If it existed, it would have a name. And, likewise, if you give a thing a name, somewhere, on some level, the thing named will exist, will come to be.

Moreover, in my own way, I have discerned in pure Being the involution of all forms. As felt, pure Being may be indeterminate, but as conceived reflectively it includes all determinations: so that when deployed into the realm of essence, infinite or indeterminate Being truly contains entertainment for all eternity.

As pineskeep the shape of the windeven when the wind has fled and is no longer there,so wordsguard the shape of maneven when man has fled and is no longer there.

Life is whole only when it isn't subordinate to a specific object that exceeds it. In this way, the essence of entirety is freedom.

First of all, be what you are.

We perhaps come from something more than from someone.

Nothing is less real than realism. Details are confusing. It is only by selection, by elimination, by emphasis, that we get at the real meaning of things.

The key to understanding complicated things is knowing what not to look at.

The name of a thing is not the thing.

Every real object must cease to be what it seemed and none could ever be what the whole soul desired.

What is human is immortal!