Quotes About Essence

The Essential Horror

C]harity [...], unlike the lower forms of love, [...] is not an emotion. It begins as an act of the will and is consummated as a purely spiritual awareness, a unitive love-knowledge of the essence of its object.

picked up the first volume that came to hand. It was on Van Gogh, and the picture at which the book opened was "The Chair"—that astounding portrait of a Ding an Sich, which the mad painter saw, with a kind of adoring terror, and tried to render on his canvas. But it was a task to which the power even of genius proved wholly inadequate. The chair Van Gogh had seen was obviously the same in essence as the chair I had seen.

A red rose absorbs all colors but red; red is therefore the one color that it is not.

Tú crees de verdad que cuando las cosas tienen un número, y una de ellas, en particular, tiene el número uno, lo que tenemos que hacer, lo que tú tienes que hacer, y yo, y todo el mundo, es empezar precisamente por ella, por la única razón de que ésa es la cosa número uno?

What is left of you once your clothes have had their say?

Ask anybody what their idea of heaven is, and the answer will reveal that person's soul.

for too easily we come to love love first and not...that from which it comes.

You don't have to do anything, you only have to be what you are.

Shinto is nature. Perhaps animism—and Shinto is the only formal animistic religion left—is the true religion. It has roots deep in all of us. One recognizes this. It is the only religion that can inspire the feeling children know when the wind or a rock is made god for a week or a day. Its essence is unknown and unknowable, yet this unknown does not exclude us because we too are unknown. This religion speaks to us, to something in us which is deep and permanent.

Pay Attention to What Is Important, Not Just What Is Quantifiable

What these first central precepts the yamas and niyamas ask us to remember is that the techniques and forms are not goals in themselves but vehicles for getting to the essence of who we are.

You are this vastness. This vista you see, this grandeur, this enduring strength—if you go deeply enough inside yourself, you will find not something small but something immensely spacious. This is the essence of the human spirit.

What is in the marrow is hard to take out of the bone.--Irish Proverb

Yes, but you have to remember what the essence of prayer is supposed to be. It's not just about begging God to give us what we want. Prayer is supposed to be conversation with God. If it's true that God has a plan for each of us, and I believe He does or I wouldn't be sitting here—

When a depressed person shrinks away from your touch it does not mean he is rejecting you. Rather he is protecting you from the foul, destructive evil which he believes is the essence of his being and which he believes can injure you.

Failure is authentic, and because it's authentic, it's real and genuine, and because of that, it's a pure state of being.

And you can't be told the essence of a person, anyway. That's something you have to experience

S'asseoir quelque part en compagnie de soi-même, soudain retranché de la confusion du monde, est aussi facile qu'essentiel.

Liberating Water Directive is all about water. More succinctly put, the ways of water.

They tell me there are many gods, for god is in each of us

Most of life is a matter of nonessential differences.

I am not my body. My body is nothing without me.

When you reduce what you need in life to the bare minimum, then that's when you achieve true freedom.