Quotes About Essence

her essential goodness, telling her that "self-knowledge is the foundation of Religion," not self-hatred.

while remaining fundamentally—and sometimes maddeningly—who we are.

Simple things have greater power than the complicated things!

You want a better life? Simplify your life! Throw all the complexities from your life!

If anyone went on for a thousand years asking of life: 'Why are you living?' life, if it could answer, would only say, 'I live so that I may live.' That is because life lives out of its own ground and springs from its own source, and so it lives without asking why it is itself living.

It is not outside us: it is all within.

Alle Dinge müssen, der Mensch allein ist das Wesen, welches will.

An angel exists and works as an intelligence, and its state is one of beholding God ceaselessly, who is the object of its intellectual essence.

Thus the word "I" means the purity of God's essence, as he is in himself, and is free and bare of any additional essences which are foreign to him, for they are created.

l'altezza dei monti non si misura con gli strumenti dei cartografi, come il valore delle persone non da ciò che fanno o sembrano, ma da ciò che sono.

Pujava olor d'aigua de riu com si fos l'aigua mateixa que visqués enlaire i que només sabia passar pel seu camí de vena.

Escribir bien cuesta. Por escribir bien entiendo decir con la máxima simplicidad las cosas esenciales.

Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.

o ar é uma pele, feita de poros por onde escoa a luz, gota por gota, como um suor solar.

segundo ele, o corpo era feito de tempo. Acabado o tempo que nos é devido, termina também o corpo. Depois de tudo, sobra o quê? Os ossos. O não-tempo, a nossa mineral essência. Se de alguma coisa temos que tratar bem é do esqueleto, nossa tímida e oculta eternidade.

A riqueza é como o sal: só serve para temperar.

O mais importante nunca se pode fotografar (...). O que fica sempre, o que nos envolve a alma é o que não pode ser capturado pela moldura. (...) "Este silêncio tão vasto, como o posso fotografar?

The true statement 'Is is is' is a fact of reality.

Then came a final wave of his hand, his red wind-breaker like a splash of paint on the kingfisher blue and the dome of cerulean above it, almost a quaint folk painting, the forms containing all that was essential, man suspended above the abyss, the water and sky elegant, the points of color making the whole greater than the sum of its parts, as a work of art should do. As

Moreover, had he begun to presume invulnerability to the eyes of the serpent? To believe that he knew the facts of a situation—quantity over essence—could precipitate reasoning and strategies that might not be within the plans of God for his own mission. Always— always—weakness had been his strength. Unknowingness. Simplicity. Trust.

is possible that man can devise new forms of violation. But the essential sin remains more or less the same. Each of us, including the best of men, is tempted to make himself into God.

Only the right name gives beings and things their reality. A wrong name makes everything unreal. That's what lies do.

Time is life itself, and life resides in the human heart.

Her bir ?eyin varl???n? sürdürmede kulland??? çaba, esas?nda o ?eyin bizatihi özünden ba?ka bir ?ey de?ildir.