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Quotes About Essence

Today we are searching for things in nature that are hidden behind the veil of appearance... We look for and paint this inner, spiritual side of nature.
~ Franz Marc
No matter how confused or deluded we may be at the moment, the underlying and essential nature of our being is clear and pure
~ Thubten Yeshe
You are one of the forces of nature.
~ Jules Michelet
I'm a minimalist. I see things in simple ways...It's human nature to define complexity as better. Well, it's not.
~ Gordon Willis
The best way to manage anything is by making use of its own nature.
~ Laozi
In the realm of Nature there is nothing purposeless, trivial, or unnecessary
~ Maimonides
You know that you are. Don't burden yourself with names, just be. Any name or shape you give yourself obscures your real nature.
~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Nature can exist without Art, but Art can never exist without Nature.
~ Alois Podhajsky
Our task is not to penetrate the essence of things, the meaning of which we do not know anyway, but rather to develop concepts which allow us to talk in a productive way about phenomena in nature
~ Niels Bohr
Nature operates in the shortest way possible.
~ Aristotle
One of the truest things to commit to is your own nature.
~ Alec Baldwin
Spirituality is your original face; it is the discovery of your intrinsic nature.
~ Rajneesh
Narration is as much a part of human nature as breath and the circulation of the blood.
~ A. S. Byatt
Direct observation of the luminous essence of nature is for me indispensable
~ Robert Delaunay
Try as one may, it is impossible to deny one's nature
~ Aesop
Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence.
~ George Santayana
The only service you can do for anyone is to remind them of their true nature.
~ Stephen Levine
Like a fragrance to a flower, true happiness is an expression of your unconditional self...the real you.
~ Robert Holden
Love is unconditional acceptance. That quality is also our essential nature, who we really are.
~ Peter Shepherd
Learn on how little man may live, and how small a portion nature requires.
~ Lucan
In nature, the emphasis is in what is rather than what ought to be.
~ Huston Smith
Everything is made of one hidden stuff.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Horses have hoofs to carry them over frost and snow; hair, to protect them from wind and cold. They eat grass and drink water, and fling up their heels.... Such is the real nature of horses.
~ Zhuangzi
Everything that depends on the action of nature is by nature as good as it can be.
~ Aristotle