Quotes About Essence

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.

The True Way is the external face of internal knowledge, known as Essence. The inner factor does not change. The whole work therefore, is the Essence. What you are pleased to call the Way of the Masters is merely the record of past method.

The force that we invoke in The Way of Power IS the energy behind all manifestation. Another name for this energy is the 'Ontos' or the Essence of essences. The Ontos is the essential nature of anything. Plotinus, a Roman philosopher born in Egypt in 205 C.E., called this energy the First Hypostasis (literally, to cause to stand). What stands? The erection (the Point). What causes the erection? The Triangle (The Source of Mystery - Woman - that which causes to stand).

Of each particular thing, ask: "What is it in itself, in its own construction?" —Marcus Aurelius

The very essence of gravity was design, and consequently deceit… it was no better, but often worse, than what a French wit had long ago defined it,—viz., A mysterious carriage of the body to cover the defects of the mind.

she did not know how to be anything else.

The beautiful, the inessential, must be given priority if it was to exist at all.

Names do not matter. They are only names that chanced to drift my way; if not those, there would have been others

I think essentially the meaning of life is probably the journey and not really any one thing or an outcome or a result. I think it's kinda the process and I think that if you can find happiness in the process then maybe that's it.

Only at death, our soul breathes. (L'âme ne respire qu'à notre mort)

We do not counterfeit his own signature, but his nature. (On ne contrefait sa propre - Signature, mais sa nature.)

Trifles make the sum of life.

Such is hope, Heaven's own gift to struggling mortals; pervading, like some subtle essence from the skies, all things, both good and bad; as universal as death, and more infectious than disease!

There's more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!

To be fully in service to something one has experienced as real is the essence of leadership in a nonhierarchical age. A leader is the holder of a story, someone whose experience of its reality is deep enough so that she can hold the belief on behalf of others.

am in him, and that's all that matters.

Life: It is about the gift not the package it comes in.

Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behaviour.

Caring: The essence and central focus of nursing.

Pressure cranks and presses Life, squeezing out essence of self, aromatic with bittersweet memories, pungent adversities, and the honey-musk of desire — vapors hover over our inkpots, and if we are willing and able to pick up the feather, it becomes our poetry.

What is poetry but impassioned truth — philosophy in its essence — the spirit of that bright consummate flower, whose root is in our bosoms?

Poetry was music. Poetry was not the thing said, but continual evocation of delicious suggestions of meaning. Poetry was an unconscious crystallization of glittering images upon the bare twig of metre. Poetry, at the nadir of this search for its essence, became the formless babble and vomit of the poet's subconscious mind.

We're all just stardust with a personality.

realized that when everything is stripped away from you and you have nothing, you find out what you really are down deep inside. What I was starting to see was not pretty.