Quotes About Essence

The whole essence of Zen consists in walking along the razor's edge of Now - to be so utterly, so completely present that no problem. no sutterns. nothing that is not wro you are in your essence, can survive in you. In the Now, in the absence of time, all your problems dissolve. Suffering needs time: it cannot survive in the Now.

who you are is always a more vital teaching and a more powerful transformer of the world than what you say, and more essential even than what you do.

in essence there is and always has been only one spiritual teaching, although it comes in many forms. Some of these forms, such as the ancient religions, have become so overlaid with extraneous matter that their spiritual essence has become almost completely obscured by it. To a large extent, therefore, their deeper meaning is no longer recognized and their transformative power lost.

Love is a state of being. Your love is not outside, it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you.

True self is rooted in being

But don't let it go to your head, because up there is where a remnant of ego may be hiding. You are still an ordinary human. What is extraordinary is what comes through you into this world. But that essence you share with all beings.

But don't let it go to your head, because up there is where a remnant of ego may be hiding. You are still an ordinary human. What is extraordinary is what comes through you into this world, that essence you share with all beings.

hiperespecialización1 impide ver la globalidad (al fragmentarla en parcelas) y también la esencia (al disolverla).

Your soul: pure glucose edged with hints Of tentative and half-soiled tints

Mr. Popple, in fact, held that the personality of the artist should at all times be dissembled behind that of the man. It was his opinion that the essence of good-breeding lay in tossing off a picture as easily as you lit a cigarette.

I'm not much to look at, replied Elizabeth, but I'm beautiful inside.

All the things you can talk about in anyone's work are the things that are least important.... You can describe all the externals of a performance - everything, in fact, but what really constitutes its core. Explaining something makes it go away, so to speak; what's important is what's left over after you've explained everything else.

The first issue of Essence featured a cover showing a beautiful, sensually full-featured black woman crowned by a glistening Afro emerging from shadow into the light of a new day. The cover date was May 1970, the newsstand price was 60 cents, the subscription rate was $5.00 for a year, $9.00 for two years, and the magazine had 82 pages, 13 of them advertising.

Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.

Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.

Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count.

As I understand the term, it is of the very essence of democracy that the individual citizen shall be invested with the inalienable and sovereign right to make an ass of himself; and furthermore, that he shall be invested with the sovereign right of publicity to tell all the world that he is doing so.

Water is life's matter and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water

Things don't have significance: they only have existence. Things are the only hidden meaning of things.

Water's water and that's why it's beautiful.

It's an already inside outside, The philosophers say it's the soul But it's not the soul: it's the animal or the man itself In its way of existing.

All beings exist and nothing else And that's why they're called beings

Uno tiene una vida incluso cuando no tiene vida.

The essence of independence has been to think and act according to standards from within, not without. Inevitably anyone with an independent mind must become "one who resists or opposes authority or established conventions": a rebel. If enough people come to agree with, and follow, the Rebel, we now have a Devil. Until, of course, still more people agree. And then, finally, we have ---Greatness.