Quotes About Essence

You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but pure and stripped of what the requirements of life make you add to it in external perception.

The essence of a thing is found only in its absence.

I think there is always a need for pure design. With pure design, you don't need so much decoration.

Chairman Mao taught us that "inner beauty is much more valuable than outward appearance." How

She meditated upon a lie. This is the essence of temptation.

The salt of the earth dissolves and the shit remains

things in this life can be separated into two categories: Things that are valuable and things that matter.

books as objects are not what books are , it's not what's important about them

An old adage states that less is more.

Benedictine conversion, then, is not an assertion of our strength or character. Benedictine spirituality is based on the simple acknowledgment that God will come to life before us and be reborn in us in unexpected ways day after day throughout our entire lives. We must be ready to respond to this God of woods and highways, of gentle breeze and cataclysm, of privacy and crowds - however this Spirit comes. Response is the essence of Benedictine spirituality.

Indeed, the big decisions in life are hardly ever clear—except for one. And that one is piercingly clear: life is a series of dilemmas, of options, of conundrums, of possibilities taken and not taken. Negotiating these moments well is of the essence of the life well lived.

Jule was a poet—poetry was like psi, she said, like thought, a thing that compressed images to essence.

I have to find myself A place where I can breathe. That's where poetry lives In the oldest part of us.

It seemed, when all was said and done, that all souls were a little wild, in some way or another.

Maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable of when we least expect it.

This is the essence of emergence: tiny units of matter operating collectively to become something much more than themselves, to enable the cosmos to know itself.

More than a shadow and less than a soul.

És o meu sopro, a minha vida, o meu coração

Why would I care what you looked like? The flesh was the shell that housed the glory.

They will never be human. But it occurred to me that who the Others choose as a template determines if they mimic the best or the worst of what it means to be human.

If you believe some of the old stories, earth natives have been around in one form or another since the beginning of the world. They were the top predators then and they're the top predators now because they change as the world changes, absorbing qualities from new species of predators without losing the essence of what they are.

I wonder if there might not be another idea of human order than repression, another notion of human virtue than self-control, another kind of human self than one based on dissociation of inside and outside. Or indeed, another human essence than self.

Beauty, in glimpses and flashes, that is what the soul required. That was the drop of water on the tongue.

The Beauty that comes from within is the most Beautiful of all