Quotes About Essence

Personality is to a man what perfume is to a flower.

Annie, the best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched; they must be felt with the heart.

The idea does not belong to the soul; it is the soul that belongs to the idea.

Democracy is not prescribed in the Bible, and Christians can and do live under other political systems. But Christians can hardly fail to love democracy, because of all systems it best assures human dignity, the essence of our creation in God's image.

And jewels and words are no less and no more necessary than cotton and silence.

From such trivia, I believe my soul was born.

Death? Why all this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! Death is the essential condition to life, not an evil.

If there's one thing I believe more than I believe anything else, it's that you can't fake the core. The truth that lives there will eventually win out. It's a god we must obey, a force that brings us all inevitably to our knees.

And if there's one thing I believe more than I believe anything else, it's that you can't fake the core. The truth that lives there will eventually win out.

And if there's one thing I believe more than I believe anything else, it's that you can't fake the core. The truth that lives there will eventually win out. It's a god we must obey, a force that brings us all inevitably to our knees.

What is the essence of America? Finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom "to" and freedom "from."

Of wine the middle, of oil the top, and of honey the bottom is best.

Through the many challenges both professionally and personally, she was the essence of grace, civility and dignity.

...not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

Perfume: any smell that is used to drown out a worse one.

Old age needs so little but needs that little so much.

If you can attribute your success entirely to your own mental effort, to your own attitude, to some spiritual essence that you have that is better than other people's, then that must feel pretty good.

man is essentially a soul clothed with a body, and not a body animated with a soul.

Typical of the limitations, even the contradictions of life, is the fact that what is most worth having can often only be had at the peril of life itself.

Contained within a given lesson or particular technique is the essence of all techniques. You imitate and study a particular form to grasp the universal principles that allow the technique to work in the first place and that will finally enable you to transcend the form itself to discover the formless.

Enlightenment has nothing to do with clothing, ritual, self - hypnosis, imagination, or trans like states. Enlightenment requires understanding our true essence, understanding the true essence of God, understanding the true essence of the cosmos. Enlightenment is beyond all thought. Enlightenment can only be experienced. Enlightenment is transcendence.

Spiritual teachers appear when we are in need, appear when we are ready, reminding us of who we are, reminding us of what we know, pointing to our essence, pointing us towards each other, redirecting us to God, leading us to oneness, Spiritual Teachers remind us there is only one reality, Presence

Spirituality is life through awareness of our true essence

Spirituality is life through awareness of our true essence. In essence we are of the energetic realm. We are conscious energy. We illuminate from source. Like rays of sunshine illuminating from the sun, each of us are part of the whole. Collectively we make up supreme consciousness. The purpose of human life is for each of us to express our higher self. To awaken. Together we complete the whole. As we awaken, the greater good is done.