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Quotes About Essence

We still by no means think decisively enough about the essence of action.
~ Martin Heidegger
To have real knowledge, one must understand the essence of things and not only their manifestations.
~ Daniel Barenboim
The world is a Hobbesian state of nature in which the struggle for domination is the very essence of international life.
~ Charles Krauthammer
Listening is the essence of anything.
~ David Lyons
When you think about the word 'quintessentially', it's about trying to get to the very essence of something.
~ Ben Elliot
There are some people that look at faith as a part of their life, and there are those like me that look at faith as the essence of their life. I look at all things through my faith.
~ Roland Martin
I guess the essence of my comedy is to get into a very abnormal situation but act like it's normal.
~ Fred Willard
When lines are great, they're easy to do. You just find the essence of it, and you do it.
~ Frank Vincent
I must admit I have never told anyone this before, but Sister Abigail is older than my essence.
~ Matt Hardy
I believe that change is the essence of life.
~ Ekta Kapoor
I think there is an idea, a unique essence to every club.
~ Diego Simeone
I feel electronica is spoiling the essence of music.
~ Rahat Fateh Ali Khan
We always start with the music even though people assume that the lyrics are the essence.
~ Ron Mael
Things have definitely changed for me since becoming a mother, but I haven't for one second lost the essence of who I am and what I do.
~ Edith Bowman
What world is there for us where our essential nature - and its right to live free - is one and the same?
~ Guy Finley
I don't read music. Not even essentially. Not even nonessentially.
~ Barbra Streisand
Every human being has "divinity" that is the same essence as the source of the cosmos. Our bodies act as temporary bodies for the journey of our souls. We came to Earth in order to go forward and complete the journey of our soul. Although our physical bodies have their limitations they also contain the necessary tools to propel our souls toward completion of the journey. The difficulties and trials that come with the human body are actually blessings, propelling our soul's expansive growth.
~ Ilchi Lee
Only one thing is your substance: your soul.
~ Ilchi Lee
Our true reality is not a limited phenomenon, existing only between birth and death. It is eternal life that exists alone, self-existent and self-sufficient, the essence of all that is, was, and ever will be throughout the universe. That is what you really are.
~ Ilchi Lee
Each of us is a great life and a great soul
~ Ilchi Lee
What we should understand here is that it's not food or breathing that life ultimately needs, but energy. And the most direct expression of energy is heat. In this sense, temperature expresses the essence of life. When you feel the heat in your body, you're observing the most central operations of your life. You're connected to the essence of life.
~ Ilchi Lee
I'm your soul.
~ Ilchi Lee
In this tale of Mago Castle, I found the part about the Vow of Restoration deeply moving, for it shows us what human beings-deep down inside- really want to become and where they want to return. Humans are fundamentally spiritual being. That is why they ceaselessly thirst for divinity and seek to become one with it.
~ Ilchi Lee
The body and ego are not my essence; the great life energy of the cosmos is the substance of who I am, and I am one with all things.
~ Ilchi Lee