Quotes About Essence

No matter where you go you are what you are player and you can try to change but that's just the top layer man you was who you was before you got here

She smelled good: not an easy thing to accomplish in 1714.

Condense fact from the vapor of nuance.

Yet I have said over and over again that there is no "right" or "wrong" in the universe. A thing is not intrinsically right or wrong. A thing simply is.

Jeg er bare en av mange, sier Walsch. Vi har alle det samme budskapet; Chopra, Williamson, Redfield, Zukav, Coelho, Osho, and you name'em. Og for den saks skyld; Jesus, Buddha, Muhammad, Guru Nanak, Konfutze, Shakespear, Jung osv. -alle formidler fra den samme kilden og den samme essensen.

Churn the milk of the mind, yourself the churner Locate the Primal Point and Sound, break it down with meditation Heat the butter of knowledge Spirituality empowered, you will find the ghee With these ingredients, a yagna I perform Offering the oblation of my own limbs. The flames that rise are your own effulgence In them my essence revealed, I stand as myself, finally. ~ Rupa Bhavani (1625-1721)

No way around it: some of the water you just drank passed through the kidneys of Socrates, Genghis Khan, and Joan of Arc. How about air? Also vital. A single breathful draws in more air molecules than there are breathfuls of air in Earth's entire atmosphere. That means some of the air you just breathed passed through the lungs of Napoleon, Beethoven, Lincoln, and Billy the Kid.

Now, what made something work well was in and of itself the core of its aesthetic quality.

But even though she was attractive, there was something else about her that caught his eye. She was intelligent, he could sense that right away, and confident, too, as if she were able to move through life on her own terms. To him, these were the things that really mattered. Without them, beauty was nothing.

Maybe I don't want to be defined by what I do. Maybe I'd like to be defined by what I am.

Love is the essence of a full and wonderful life.

Maybe I'd like to be defined by what I am.

The essence of Ferguson is the spirit of the people, and I'm so happy to see the spirit because I haven't seen it like that since the Civil Rights Movement.

Music isn't what I do. It's who I am.

I'm interested in authentic experience and the essence of that creative place, and where those myths begin and where they become real on any level.

At the end of the day, we came into the world naked, and that's the way we're going to go.

Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.

I don't think a name defines the core of who you are.

In both 'Tigerman' and my first book, 'The Gone-Away World,' there are characters who never really get names. They're too fundamentally who they are to be bound by a name, so I couldn't give them one.

Right now I'm trying to do a fragrance called Natalie. She's very, very much alive for us.

What's natural is beautiful, and when you're not you anymore, you become a caricature.

I really do believe that being naturally beautiful is what is inside and what shines through.

Coming to terms with our true natures and who we really are has always been a fascination to humans. I know it fascinates me.

I'm not going to lay down in words the lure of this place. Every great writer in the land, from Faulkner to Twain to Rice to Ford, has tried to do it and fallen short. It is impossible to capture the essence, tolerance, and spirit of south Louisiana in words and to try is to roll down a road of clichés, bouncing over beignets and beads and brass bands and it just is what it is. It is home.