Quotes About Essence

Never forget the essence of your spark!

Are we more fully realized when we minimize the physical part of our natures? And that, you have to agree, is a profound question.

The question is, what has life but not form?

I am not that air, I am the pattern that it assumed, temporarily.

But faces that are full of personality look as good as they ever did, maybe even better. It's like you're seeing something more essential about them.

As all things are reflections of God, so are all names reflections of the divine name." "And what is an object's true name?" "That name which reflects the divine name in the same manner as the object reflects God." "And what is the action of a true name?" "To endow its object with a reflection of divine power.

Are we more fully realized when we minimize the physical part of our natures? And that, you gave to agree, is a profound question.

Anything unnatural was not naturally believed. Faith, in essence, was unnatural.

Nonfiction speaks to the head. Fiction speaks to the heart. Poetry speaks to the soul. It's the essence of beauty. The essence of pain. It pleases the eye and the ear.

I think a lot of the time these days people are so concerned about having the right camera and the right film and the right lenses and all the special effects that go along with it, even the computer, that they're missing the key element.

Essence is something I always enjoy, because I love New Orleans. Since they brought it back to New Orleans, it's a special place to me. We been doing it since the beginning. We did it when it was in Houston, but there's nothing like New Orleans.

'Humanity' is a name not merely for a species but also for a quality.

What exactly is it that humans do that is specifically human? There has to be something. How odd it is for billions of people to be alive, yet not one of them is really quite sure of what makes people people.

Each of us is a spirit in material form.

Life is all about the spirit.

Your spirit is your spirit, whether you're religious or whatever.

The spiritual is the parent of the practical.

On the religious Right and religious people in general have the feeling that the world is not just material, the world is not just there for us to do what we want with. That our bodies, things have an immaterial essence, a spiritual essence that God is in all of us.

Spiritual beings, either from the beginning or soon thereafter, become what they are to be for ever and ever.

At the core, we're all spiritual beings.

If God exists, then we are spiritual beings, and we have souls, and we are noble inherently.

I can actually feel the interior body of a dancer. I have the ability to capture a split second... I want you to be hit with whatever the essence is of this sculpture.

A heart isn't something you get. It's something that's born.

Love is who we are without our stories.