Quotes About Essence

Events don't make a person interesting. It's who they are and what's inside them that makes them interesting.

A time past is an essence gone

This is for you, for your breath, whose absence would lessen a greater world.

Art is the essence of life in creative form. If you want to compete, run a damn race. If you truly want to create essence, you need to leave competition out of it. 2014

Deep down inside what i want is a little of me.

The soul is spirit incarnate. Don't think of yourself as a body that has a soul, bit rather as spirit that needs a body."-James Van Praggh

Gold is the root-essence of lead. It is considered an implicit component of all metals in greater or lesser degree, based on their density, much as the illuminated spiritual reality is considered implicit in the soul of each incarnate human, no matter how overlaid with vice and ignorance.

Why is the raw body so unloved when it's out-loud? Just veins, blood, what we're made of?

There is a presence within you that has never suffered. It lives in joy that has no cause. It is who you most deeply are.

The art of Life is to be Ourselves.

I say, forget religion. What it's about, is the two of you, you and him. Nothing more, nothing less.

The rose: though its petals are easily bruised, it blooms with exuberance. What power the rose possesses; the merest hint of a blossom conjures the deepest memory. At dawn, roses must be picked quickly, for they lose half their essence—the perfumer's treasure—by the high sun of noon. —DB

There are worlds / in which nothing is adjective, everything noun.

True compassion is the result of experiencing sunyata. 'Sunya' means empty; and 'ta' means 'ness'. The doctrine of emptiness is the essential teaching of Mahayana. It is the ultimate truth of non-ego.

He was beautiful, but he was what he was. A man.

First of all, a soul is not something that you have. It is what you are.

The fact is, very few of us are real imposters. And it's different from play-acting. Imposterism or imposture comes from the core of your being because there's nothing else there. Your central being never develops a self; that's not a disadvantage, entirely, though you do have to fight for your point of view, almost as if you were dead.

Pare down to the essence, but don't remove poetry. Keep things clean and unencumbered, buut don't sterilize.

La esencia de tu negocio debería pivotar sobre todo aquello que no cambia. Sobre cosas que la gente quiere hoy y seguirá pidiendo dentro de diez años.

It's the stuff you leave out that matters. So constantly look for things to remove, simplify, and streamline. Be a curator. Stick to what's truly essential. Pare things down until you're left with only the most important stuff. Then do it again. You can always add stuff back in later if you need to.

There's a beauty to imperfection. This is the essence of the Japanese principle of wabi-sabi. Wabi-sabi values character and uniqueness over a shiny facade.

Keep things clean and unencumbered but don't sterilize.*

Leonard Koren, author of a book on wabi-sabi, gives this advice: Pare down to the essence, but don't remove the poetry. Keep things clean and unencumbered but don't sterilize.

It's the stuff you leave out that matters. So constantly look for things to remove, simplify, and streamline. Be a curator. Stick to what's truly essential.