Quotes About Essence

Above all, we must abolish hope in the heart of man. A calm despair, without angry convulsions, without reproaches to Heaven, is the essence of wisdom.

Matter can never give you joy. It's the Spirit that gives you joy.

When you are the Spirit, you are like a brilliant diamond, which is giving light by itself.

The rose called by any other name would smell as sweet.

sentimentalism, nor anything that belongs

the personality of the man is two-thirds, and his intellect, his words, are but one-third. It is the real man, the personality of the man, that runs through us.

Although devotion is to be given to many institutes and teachers, the essence is to be taken from them all, as the bee takes the essence from many flowers.- Samkhya, 4.13, an Eastern scripture

Philosophy of course is the essence of every religion; mythology explains and illustrates it by means of the more or less legendary lives of great men, stories and fables of wonderful things, and so on; ritual gives to that philosophy a still more concrete form, so that every one may grasp it — ritual is in fact concretised philosophy.

Ah, you flavor everything; you are the vanilla of society.

Truth has beauty, power and necessity.

Birth, and copulation, and death.That's all the facts when you come to brass tacks.

For a true name holds true power.

What's inside a person is more valuable than what's on the outside," Mother constantly preached. "Don't be fooled by the exterior.

No matter what happens while the soul is in a physical incarnation on earth, nothing can harm the soul or disrupt its connection to God. Moreover, our soul is always trying to express its true essence through our lives.

It comes to us all. The moment when you realise that nothing but love will do.

you. Once again, my new novel The Girl Who Stayed is something different for me, although with the same voice my readers have come to anticipate. I believe that people are pretty much the same, regardless of era, physical space, or culture, and this is the essence of my storytelling. I strive for characters you will relate to, no matter where or when they may have lived. The Girl Who Stayed is also a book of the heart and I couldn't be more thrilled to see

Spiritual awakening is the process of recognizing our essential goodness, our natural wisdom and compassion.

How could we forget those ancient myths that stand at the beginning of all races—the myths about dragons that at the last moment are transformed into princesses. Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are only princesses waiting for us to act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.

The most important thing is remembering the most important thing.

That gentleness and kindness were the very essence of his teaching. He kept saying: "God is gentle [rafiq] and he loves gentleness [ar-rifq] in everything.

Who can ever hold the essence of fire? Who can ever know the alchemy of desire?

my soul's far better part…

time is the quintessential mother.

Still, the truth is that there was nothing extra. If my childhood were a sandwich, there would be no meat hanging off the bread. We had what we needed and nothing more. "And nothing less,