Quotes About Essence

The essence of chastity is not the suppression of lust, but the total orientation of one's life towards a goal. Without such a goal, chastity is bound to become ridiculous. Chastity is the sine qua non of lucidity and concentration.

Life is not a thing, an essence, or a concept,[10] but a person—more specifically, a particular and unique person.

Love is not concerned with a person's accomplishments, it is a response to a person's being: This is why a typical word of love is to say: I love you, because you are as you are.

Happiness is love's outcome, never its motive. Where someone is loved he is an end in himself and certainly not a means toward something else. It is therefore of love's essence, wherever it is found, that the loved one seem precious, beautiful, and worthy of love.

Ah! Fount of compassion, my root teacher, Lord Chenrezi, You are my only protector! The six-syllable mantra, essence of your speech, is the sublime Dharma; From now on I have no hope but you!

If I, the boiling water, And you, the tea; Then your fragrance Has to depend solely upon my plainness.... I have to be hot, even boiled Before we consume each other....

What you do isn't who you are.

Vibrations are the key to everything. Atoms used to be, but atoms have quite gone out.

The important thing in life is not what you get, but what you throw out.

The quality of life is more important than life itself.

Life is like an onion: you peel off layer after layer and then you find there is nothing in it.

Life—God—in its essence is vibration.

The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple.

. . . the circumference of life cannot be rightly drawn until the center is set.

The secret of life was Breath. That was what I always wanted my words to do, to Breathe.

And I deeply pray that everyone discovers that they can strip away anything that might be holding them back on every level, and can begin living life from the real essence of their own soul.

Like bones to the human body, the axle to the wheel, the wing to the bird, and the air to the wing, so is liberty the essence of life. Whatever is done without it is imperfect.

I am not my thoughts, emotions, sense perceptions, and experiences. I am not the content of my life. I am Life. I am the space in which all things happen. I am consciousness. I am the Now. I Am.

Simplicity of life, even the barest, is not a misery, but the very foundation of refinement.

Looking good and dressing well is a necessity. Having a purpose in life is not.

Man seeks to change the foods available in nature to suit his tastes, thereby putting an end to the very essence of life contained in them.

There is a life in you, search that life, search the secret jewel in the mountain of your body.

My life, the most truthful one, is unrecognizable, extremely interior, and there is no single word that gives it meaning.

Life is more important than architecture.