Quotes About Essence

I find myself unable to let go of the sense that human beings are somehow special, and that moment-to-moment human experience contains a certain unquantifiable essence. I still suspect there is something too quirky, too paradoxical, or too interpersonal to be imitated or re-created by machine life.

I find it difficult to stand up for what you are and what your essence is, and seeing that clearly can be an unbelievably hard thing to do.

A bargain is in its very essence a hostile transaction do not all men try to abate the price of all they buy? I contend that a bargain even between brethren is a declaration of war.

Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter.

In war, we always deform ourselves, our essence.

What is left of us? … No countries, no cultures, no wars but still no peace. What's at our core, then? What's still squirming in our bones when everything else is stripped?

Love is eternal, the aspect may change, but not the essence.

You say that you are just a body, but inside of you is something greater than the Universe.

truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.

It is weight that gives meaning to weightlessness.

I believe that all wisdom consists in caring immensely for a few right things, and not caring a straw about the rest.

When you approach something to photograph it, first be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence. Then don't leave until you have captured its essence.

The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

The important things are always simple.

Whatever pearl you seek, look for the pearl within the pearl!

We all have spiritual DNA; wisdom and truth are part of our genetic structure even if we don't always access it.

Wisdom is to the soul as food is to the body.

What hurts the soul? To live without tasting the water of its own essence.

But Love is the final reality; and anyone who does not understand this, be he writer or sage, is a man flawed in wisdom.

Once a wolf, always a wolf.

To cognize the Divine Essence - this is the highest purpose of soul, sent by the Creator to the Earth!

What we have to be is what we are.

We are spirits clad in veils.

Words rich in meaning can be cheap in sound effects.