Quotes About Essence

Everyman's an angel!

Breath belongs to Mehay. Ecl has no use for it.

Whenever he was asked what somebody had died of he'd reply (with immense gravity), Lack of breath.

Lo que queremos y lo que necesitamos pueden ser cosas diferentes.

You can't tell this unlimited grand essence how to go about anything. If you do, you are back to trying to do things your way, and naturally it will stop helping you so as to allow you your free will. Instead, can your free will be "Thy will be done"?

It seemed to Ig that all such messages were the same at heart: I Am; I Was; I Want to Be.

The key is to keep things simple.

then he said souls aren´t boys and aren´t girls. they´re only souls.

Instead of asking for something, we can just be the thing itself.

The LORD does not look at the things people look at. People look at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart." 1 SAMUEL 16:7

Don't try to feel anything. Be it. Don't feel it.

You have to turn to that within-ness in the deepest kind of humility, not with any belief at all that you are the child of God. Of course you are in your essence, but so was the prodigal son when he was eating with the swine. He was still the son of the king, heir to everything, and that didn't do him much good. Neither does our heirship in Christ do us much good until by contact with this center within our own being we re-establish that oneness.

The terrible things that happened to you didn't make you you. You always were.

When she smoothed my shirt and stepped back, I said, 'Mama, why do you always look at me like I'm dressed in a fancy suit?' She said, 'Because I see your soul, Leland Keller. Your soul is as a spick- and- span and sharp as a man in his church suit. That's what's important in life. Make sure your soul is dressed right, always in its church clothes. That's the only thing that matters to God' ...

She chose the adjective deliberately. Handsome or sexy conveyed surface appeal. Beautiful addressed the whole package, inside and out.

Color contributes to beauty, but it is not beauty. Color should have a minor part in the consideration of beauty, because it is not color but the structure that constitutes its essence.

How can I not be? How can you not be? We are after all. –– Not be! What does that mean? It is only a word, a mere sound, which stirs nothing in me.

Ich bin der Geist der stets verneint! Und das mit Recht; denn alles, was entsteht, ist wert, dass es zugrunde geht.

What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Du bist am Ende was du bist.

Blood is a juice of rarest quality.

A man's name is not like a mantle which merely hangs about him, and which one perchance may safely twitch and pull, but a perfectly fitting garment, which, like the skin, has grown over and over him, at which one cannot rake and scrape without injuring the man himself.

As we deepen in understanding, the arbitrary divisions between inner and outer disappear. The essence of life, the beauty and grandeur of life, is its wholeness.

Change is the essence of life.