Quotes About Essence

Kabir says: Student, tell me, what is God? He is the breath inside the breath.

Of course these minimum life requirements don't fully address what it means to be alive. For even beyond all the metabolic processes, there was also an intangible essence separating the living from the not. Call it a soul, or just a need we had. Every living thing possessed a certain energy or life-force that infused even the unicellular among us.

I think badness is the fundamental condition of humanity.

It is not a thing that you can imagine. It only is. After that, there can be no imagining.

She saw through the shell of me into the center of me

I could write more, but that is all that matters.

Mesa, adorno de marfil, arcoíris, cebolla, peinado, molusco, Sabbat, violencia, cutícula, melodrama, cuneta, miel, pañuelo... Nada la conmovía. (...) Nada conseguía ser más de lo que era en realidad. Eran solo cosas, prisioneras de su propia esencia.

But not even to save your life?" "If nothing matters, there's nothing to save.

I offer her that kernel of myself that I have saved, somehow - the central heart that deals not in words, traffics not with dreams and is untouched by time, by joy, by adversities.

Siamo fatti per l'arte, siamo fatti per la memoria, per la poesia o forse per l'oblio. Ma qualcosa resta e questo qualcosa è la storia o la poesia, che non sono essenzialmente diverse.

Time is the substance of which I am

There is no need to waste words showing that not everything is useless which cannot be brought under the definition of the useful.

The effort of human thought has not been able to track down the essence of a single gnat.

What am I? Am I the bulb that carries the light, or am I the light of which the bulb is a vehicle?

The spirit is the bouquet of nature.

Life is, in its very essence and character, a terrible mystery—this whole business of living by killing and eating. But it is a childish attitude to say no to life with all its pain, to say that this is something that should not have been.

All the gods, all the heavens, all the world, are within us.

Most magic wasn't even magic. It just was.

What I believe about God is the most important thing about me.

Qué dulces néctares y aromas emergerán una vez que se revelen las profundidades de tu esencia.

What sweet nectars and scents would emerge once the depths of your essence are revealed.

A?k sözcü?ü yerini, anlam?n? dumura u?ratt?. S?radan bir sözcük gibi yerini her ?eye açt?. Tanr? gibi varolup da var olam?yor art?k. Hem a?k?n varl??? da çok su götürür. Gerçekte a?k yoktur: Var k?lmak istiyoruz. Bu hakk?m?z da. Ba?ka bir ?eyimiz yok çünkü.

Happiness, they say, can't be ordered like a steak in a restaurant. Like love, its very essence is freedom. This is true. But like love, happiness can be wooed and won.

Music must always flow, for that is part of its very essence, but the creation of that continuity and flow--that long line-- constitutes the be-all and end-all of every composer's existence.