Quotes About Essence

A composer once told me that the silence from which each note emerges is more important than the note itself.

The difference between saints and the rest of us isn't that they have loving, pure beliefs and we don't; rather, they function solely from their essence

Make an effort to remove all labels that you've placed on yourself. Labels serve to negate you. You must ultimately live up to the label rather than being the limitless spirit that is your true essence.

The essential lesson I've learned in life is to just be yourself. Treasure the magnificent being that you are and recognize first and foremost you're not here as a human being only. You're a spiritual being having a human experience.

Divinity is not a fashion. It is the way of life. It is the need of your being, you have to become that.

A sense of purpose is not something that you find; it's something that you are. Truth is not something that you look for; it's something that you live.

We are all essentially spiritual beings having a temporary human experience. This is our essence. This is where we come from.

you can never be harmed or destroyed, for you are not your body.

The original qualities Lao-tzu speaks of are the love, kindness, and beauty that defined your essence before you were formed into a particle and then a human being.

is seen here below by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all come …" — Michelangelo "Self-realization means that we have

You are pure greatness…precisely the very same greatness that creates all of life.

Spirit is the life of God within us" (Saint Teresa of Avila)

My conclusion about my origination is that I came from Spirit, and my true essence is that I am what I came from. I am a Divine piece of God. I am first and always a spiritual being inextricably connected to my Source of being.

It's spirit that gives life.

minimize your material-world concerns and to put more of your energy into the essence of life, which is love and service.

Writing is not something that I do. It is what I am.

It is so hard to define the "unlabelable" part of you, but once you do, it's incredibly powerful. Call it the soul or spirit or whatever—you discover that the invisible part of you really determines everything about your life.

Realize your essence and you will witness the end without ending.

Trust your own essential nature.

look into your heart and examine what is truly important.

can choose to consciously participate in this nonsensory supreme reality—your imagination—where you assume your future dream to be a present fact and live from this new awareness. This isn't pretending or fooling yourself, it is inviting your spirit rather than your physical form to generate the creative essence of your reality. It's what it means to transform your life.

see the part of you that's as constant as a spirit or a thought. This is your essence, and it's incapable of being harmed in any way.

We are not our bodies, our possessions, or our careers. Who we are is divine Love, and that is infinite.

Music and politics are in essence about communication. Without over-stretching the analogy I do feel a sense of rhythm is important in getting your message across.