Quotes About Essence

the good smell of wood smoke, a scent comforting and welcoming, the essence, it had always seemed to me, of where the human experience and the wilderness met.

Sono giunto alla conclusione che siamo creature fatte di spirito, uno spirito che scorre dentro di noi come l'elettricità e può passare dall'uno all'altro. Fu questo ciò che senti scaturire dalla mano di mia madre, lo spirito del suo profondo anelito.

WE BREATHE LOVE in and we breathe love out. It's the essence of our existence, the very air of our souls.

What is a crow but a dove dipped in pitch? And what is a man but a dog cursed with words?

The stresses of high-altitude climbing reveal your true character; they unmask who you really are. You no longer have all the social graces to hide behind, to play roles. You are the essence of what you are.

Oxygen is a need, but love is a want. I repeat: LOVE IS NOT AN ADULT HUMAN NEED!

who they are and not which

money has no essence. It's not "really" anything; therefore, its nature has always been and presumably always will be a matter of political conten­tion.

Suddenly everything her grandfather had been saying about God made sense, as if the pieces were waiting for her to click into place. This beautiful mother's very life was constantly flowing into her baby. The baby didn't have to do anything to get it. It was already his. He possessed her very life. He didn't have to do anything to activate it. It was already active inside him. Apart from her, he had no life. But being joined to her, he had her life. All he had to do was be

Un corpuscolo trasparente brillava in me, una scintilla, dorata, luminosa. Lo sapevo: ero io, la mia anima, la mia essenza, il senso della mia esistenza. È nata con me, pensavo, e con me morirà... e non sapevo che avrei potuto sopravviverle a lungo, divenire io stessa un'esiliata, un essere umano inaridito. E una bugiarda... che candidamente senza batter ciglio, osa dire: io.

So the learning of complete people is to return their essential nature to non-being and float their minds in spaciousness.41

Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.

Anything simple always interests me.

Art may make a suit of clothes, but nature must produce a man.

If only one can could know the essential natures of things, one might discover the ultimate reasons why they behave as they do: for the essential nature or essence of anything... if only it were truly adequate, all the behavioural properties of that thing must follow necessarily.

The essence of starting with Kanban is to change as little as possible. You must resist the temptation to change workflow, job titles, roles and responsibilities, and specific working practices.

Viktor Frankl says there are only three that matter. To do work that matters to you, to care for others, and to rise to the challenge of difficult times. Work, love, courage. That's it. Any other human pursuit is horseshit.

It should be clear by now that we tend to think about races along the same lines as we think about species. Both races and species are presumed to be natural kinds defined by hidden essences passed down the "bloodline" from parents to their offspring. Both are scientifically vacuous but intuitively compelling.

In God alone, essence (what He is) and existence (that he is) coincide.

The beautiful simplicity of our faith is that it distills down to the exact same bottom line for both the brilliant theologian and the five-year-old child: love God and love each other - period.

God is all there is - God includes everything, all possibility and all action, for Spirit is the invisible essence and substance of all form.

Only those of tranquil minds, and none else, can attain abiding joy, by realizing within their souls the Being who manifests one essence in a multiplicity of forms.

I believe God wrote the Word in your essence. That's the genius of my Father. You are born knowing right from wrong. You don't need a book to tell you that!

God is not He who is, but That which is.