Quotes About Essence

Change is the essence of life; be willing to surrender what you are for what you could become.

If less is more, maybe nothing is everything.

thence concluded that I was a substance whose whole essence or nature consists only in thinking, and which, that it may exist, has need of no place, nor is dependent on any material thing; so that " I," that is to say, the mind by which I am what I am, is wholly distinct from the body, and is even more easily known than the latter, and is such, that although the latter were not, it would still continue to be all that it is.

Therefore from the fact alone that I know that I exist and that, at the same time, I notice absolutely nothing else that belongs to my nature apart from the single fact that I am a thinking thing, I correctly conclude that my essence consists in this alone, that I am a thinking thing.

the greater objective (representative) perfection there is in our idea of a thing, the greater also must be the perfection of its cause.

I thence concluded that I was a substance whose whole essence or nature consists only in thinking, and which, that it may exist, has need of no place, nor is dependent on any material thing; so that " I," that is to say, the mind by which I am what I am, is wholly distinct from the body, and is even more easily known than the latter, and is such, that although the latter were not, it would still continue to be all that it is.

The essence of desire is to have no essential goal. Truly to desire, we must have recourse to people about us; we have to desire their desires.

Humankind is that creature who lost a part of its animal instinct in order to gain access to "desire," as it is called. Once their natural needs are satisfied, humans desire intensely, but they don't know exactly what they desire, for no instinct guides them. We do not each have our own desire, one really our own. The essence of desire is to have no essential goal. Truly to desire, we must have recourse to people about us; we have to borrow their desires.

Is not the heart of man indeed the vase in which his life is continuously maintained by means of his blood?

Orice cunoa?tere este esen?ialmente identificare cu obiectul s?u.

Protestantism, like the modern world, is built upon mere negation, the same negation of principles that is the essence of individualism; and one can see in it one more example, and a most striking one, of the state of anarchy and dissolution that has arisen from this negation.

but to say that there is in every being a mixture of act and potency comes back to the same thing in the end, for act is that in him by which he participates in essence, and potency is that in him by which he participates in substance

Creativity is one of your greatest gifts. It resides deep inside you impacting every thought. It is attached to a never ending source and is one of the main aspects of who you are. Your very essence is as a creator. No one creates exactly like you do. Your thoughts and actions color the world

God has a name. This points to a key difference between persons and things. God is not a nameless energy or abstract idea. — Thomas Oden

The essence of sainthood is expiation.

Even the Quran, which Sufis respect as the direct speech of God, lacks the capacity to shed light upon God's essence. As one Sufi master has argued, why spend time reading a love letter (by which he means the Quran) in the presence of the Beloved who wrote it?

He smelled more powerfully like himself now that he was dead than he had when he was alive.

You are energy, and energy cannot be created or destroyed. Energy just changes form. And that means You! The true essence of You, the pure energy of You, has always been and always will be. You can never not be.

Du är energi och energi kan inte skapas eller förstöras. Energi ändrar bara form. Och det betyder Du! Den sanna essensen av det som är Du, den rena energin som är Du, har alltid funnits och kommer alltid att finnas. Du kan inte sluta med att vara [...] Du är evig energi.

Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable." R. Buckminster-Fuller (1895–1983)

The true essence of You, the pure energy of You, has always been and always will be. You can never not be.

Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.

las serpientes viven con el veneno adentro de sus cuerpos sin haberlo decidido

I believe what I believe is what makes me what I am