Quotes About Essence

The God who is human in his divinity is the precise opposite of an essence which in ill-willed fashion closes itself to all human thought and knowledge... As love, rather, God is thinkable, without a distinction capable of made between essence and existence. Love is essentially existing lovingly.

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

Simplicity – the art of maximizing the amount of work not done – is essential.

And, in the end, we must resist Ibsen's ghosts, the 'old ideas and beliefs' that cage us in categories and assumptions about who we are and what we are capable of and blind us to the beauty of others, never forgetting that categorization refers only to the different conditions under which we live; it doesn't capture the essence of who we are.

God is the salsa of life.

It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.

What I am is what I am. Are you what you are or what?

Mind and spirit together make up that which separates us from the rest of the animal world, that which enables a man to know the truth and that which enables him to die for the truth.

The inner fire is the most important thing mankind possesses.

A great nose may be an index Of a great soul

Why must the plastic form make up the foundation of image consciousness?

For of the soul the body form doth take:For soul is form, and doth the body make.

It is impossible to capture the essence of love in writing, only its symptoms remain, the erotic absorption, the huge disparity between the times together and the times apart, the sense of being excluded.

I am here not only to evade for a while the clamor and filth and confusion of the cultural apparatus but also to confront, immediately and directly if it's possible, the bare bones of existence, the elemental and fundamental, the bedrock which sustains us.

One should therefore not rely on mere words, but everywhere search for the intention behind them. (121)

But in the garden the sun still shone. The innumerable bees hummed. The scent of thyme hung on the air. But only the Natterjack was there to breathe the fragrant essence of it. He and the garden were waiting. They were waiting for more children. They didn't care how long they waited. They had all the time in the world. -The Time Garden, Edward Eager

A nudist is simply a human being without artificial additives.

Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savor, wherewith shall it be salted?

Love not me for comely grace,For my pleasing eye or face,Nor for any outward part,No, nor for a constant heart.

Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots?

Angels can fly directly into the heart of the matter.

This Self is the honey of all beings, and all beings are the honey of this Self.

It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing.

[W]hat counts can't be counted.