Quotes About Essence

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

All things in the world come from being. And being comes from non-being.

The men who are great live with that which is substantial, they do not stay with that which is superficial they abide with realities, they remain not with what is showy. The one they discard, the other they hold.

What is the value of human life? We are made up of so much water.

Jelly had no brain per se but was in essence all brain, a shared consciousness programmed for desire. He had an appetite for everything, voraciously absorbing the culture that surrounded him and becoming it, only louder. In other words, he was extremely teenaged.

Sugar is the most important thing in my life. All the rest is just to stay alive.

Before heaven and earth had taken form all was vague and amorphous. Therefore it was called the Great Beginning. The Great Beginning produced emptiness and emptiness produced the universe…. The combined essences of heaven and earth became the yin and yang, the concentrated essences of the yin and yang became the four seasons, and the scattered essences of the four seasons became the myriad creatures of the world.

No es más que un nombre, ¿no es cierto? Lo importante es lo que somos por dentro.

Pero es él, lo sé. Su verdadera esencia. Y tenía razón: la temo, y una parte de mi la odia. Pero es parte de mi ser. Es parte de la naturaleza del mundo, y por eso también, en cierto modo, la amo

No se disculpa por él, sino por mi. No puede avergonzarse de ser como es, porque el caos y la destrucción están en su propia esencia. Pero lo siente por mí. […] Sabe que me hará daño, que no va a poder evitarlo, y lo lamenta.

nothing is really important but being oneself

I was born from nothing and to nothing I will return. And yet, when i say the word nothing, when i admit, at last, 'I am nothing,' i feel mysteriously like something again, ground zero, genesis, the pull of possibilities.

Identity is destiny.

The inner power of life within you is the divine and the divine has all power.

The body is nothing more than a coalesced soul. The soul is nothing more than the mystical body.

It is not an easy thing for certain men and women to remain hidden. However, they accomplish this in a variety of ways. Remember the story of the Sufi Master who deliberately passed wind to rid himself of students who were not there out of a love of Essence? Many stories such as this have been told.

The Sufi is a trumpet blast of Truth, a clarion call to all Lovers of God to gather to chant 'Hu,' the name of the Divine Essence.

Each human being contains the Essence within himself or herself, but the knowledge remains latent in most people.

Naked implies Essence. May we all know our Essence as we journey to the land of the Sarmoung.

Sufism travels into the realm of story, inspired analogy and esoteric understanding of the Qur'an, so that the Sufi may ultimately become the Essence.

If you are wearing a gold necklace do I say 'Please remove the necklace, so I may see the gold?' I can't see the gold without seeing the necklace, and I can't see the necklace without seeing the gold. There are multitudes of gold jewelry in the world, but there is only one substance 'Gold.' All the gold jewelry comes from this one substance, the jewelry takes many forms and shapes, but they all arise out of this one substance — gold.

When Allah manifests Itself to us as the Real, or the Cosmos, we perceive the Divine Names. The Names, due to their distinction from one another (although they all proceed from the same Essence), generate duality. The Names are the self-disclosure of the Essence. However, in knowing Allah as Essence, the dervish crosses over to Unity.

Gnostics do not need faith because they are already having a direct relationship with the Absolute Essence.

The supposed Spirit-Matter duality is based on a misunderstanding of the perception of the Essence. The body is nothing more than a coalesced soul. The soul is nothing more than the mystical body.