Quotes About Essence

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Every society and religion has rules, for both have moral laws. And the essence of morality consists, as in art, of drawing the line somewhere.

The limited circle is pure.

Be salt, and a little bit of salt keeps the whole society from going rancid.

At its essence, the message of the Occupations is simply this: 'Here in the face of power we will sit and create a new society, in which you do count.'

We are nothing but ceremony; ceremony carries us away, and we leave the substance of things; we hang on to the branches and abandon the trunk and body.

You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.

You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.

The Bible is ... as necessary to spiritual life as breath is to natural life. There is nothing more essential to our lives than the Word of God.

True refinement seeks simplicity.

When a baby comes you can smell two things: the smell of flesh, which smells like chicken soup, and the smell of lilies, the flower of another garden, the spiritual garden.

We keep so busy talking we are so keen to act that we forget that in the heart lies all we need untapped, intact.

Beauty is essentially spiritual. The authentic beauty lies in the heart.

Lack of ornamentation is a sign of spiritual strength.

Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.

Catastrophe is the essence of the spiritual path, a series of breakdowns allowing us to discover the threads that weave all of life into a whole cloth.

I'm not a body with a soul, I'm a soul that has a visible part called the body

Prayer is to the spiritual life what the beating of the pulse and the drawing of the breath are to the life of the body.

The spiritual life is part of the human essence. It is a defining characteristic of human nature, without which human nature is not fully human.

All spiritual practice must be directed to the removal of the husk and the revelation of the kernel.

It is therefore essential to let the 'heart spirit' settle like calm water. Then it becomes a tranquil lake in which the sky is reflected, in which the face of Christ can be seen.

To approach the spiritual in art, one will make as little use as possible of reality, because reality is opposed to the spiritual.

The flesh is as spiritual as the soul, and the soul is as natural as the flesh.

The spirit is the true self.