Quotes about essence
essence age important
What is important-what lasts-in another language is not what is said but what is written. For the essence of an age, we look to its poetry and its prose, not its talk shows.
essence age lasts
What lasts is what is written. We look to literature to find the essence of an age.
essence way one-way
Nothing in its essence is one way or the other. Pema Chodron
essence realization
Everything is fresh, the essence of realization.
essence self bravery
The essence of bravery is being without self-deception.
essence path discomfort
The essence of our whole path is in that place of discomfort, and what do we do with it?
essence luxury joy
Times are difficult globally; awakening is no longer a luxury or an ideal. It’s becoming critical. We don’t need to add more depression, more discouragement, or more anger to what’s already here. It’s becoming essential that we learn how to relate sanely with difficult times. The earth seems to be beseeching us to connect with joy and discover our innermost essence. This is the best way that we can benefit others.
essence roots mind
What disconcerts the modern world at its very roots is not being sure, and not seeing how it ever could be sure, that there is an outcome-a suitable outcome to evolution. Half our present uneasiness would be turned to happiness if we could once make up our minds to accept the facts and place the essence and the measure of our modern cosmogonies within a noogenesis. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
essence the-end-of-the-day important
At the end of the day, the position is just a position, a title is just a title, and those things come and go. It's really your essence and your values that are important. Queen Rania of Jordan
essence soul words-of-wisdom
To cognize the Divine Essence - this is the highest purpose of soul, sent by the Creator to the Earth! Pythagoras
essence shells might
If we reverse the outer shell and the essence--in other words, consider the outer shell the essence and the essence only the shell--our lives might be a whole lot easier to understand. Haruki Murakami
essence loved-ones dear
Love can never explain the loved one, my dear. It is the essence of wild unreason. Han Suyin
essence people way
A Shakespeare could have arisen only on English soil. In the same way, your great dramatists and poets express the nature and essence of the Norwegian people, but they also express that which is universally valid for all mankind. Gustav Stresemann
essence law enemy
The essence of fascism is to make laws forbidding everything and then enforce them selectively against your enemies. John Lescroart
essence doe arguing
God does not exist. He is being-itself beyond essence and existence. Therefore to argue that God exists is to deny him. Paul Tillich
essence capture form
A novel captures essence that is not possible in any other form. Paul Theroux
essence ideas apples
In short, what the living wage is really about is not living standards, or even economics, but morality. Its advocates are basically opposed to the idea that wages are a market price-determined by supply and demand, the same as the price of apples or coal. And it is for that reason, rather than the practical details, that the broader political movement of which the demand for a living wage is the leading edge is ultimately doomed to failure: For the amorality of the market economy is part of its essence, and cannot be legislated away. Paul Krugman
essence people consciousness
Many people mistakenly suppose that the essence of consciousness is that of a control mechanism John Searle
essence people done
The essence is that many procrastinators are "structured procrastinators," people who, like me, get a lot done as a way of not working on what they should ideally be working on. John Perry
essence evil broken
What is the essence of evil? It is forsaking a living fountain for broken cisterns. God gets derision and we get death. They are one: choosing sugarcoated misery we mock the lifegiving God. It was meant to be another way: God's glory exalted in our everlasting joy. John Piper
essence religion atheism
The essence of Christianity, as I see it, is love. The essence of Humanism (and I'm also a Humanist) is love. At that level, we're not far apart. Mark Thomas
essence goal perfection
When it is understood that one loses joy and happiness in the attempt to possess them, the essence of natural farming will be realized. The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings. Masanobu Fukuoka
essence matter needs
Here is the crux of the matter, the distilled essence, the only thing you need to remember: When considering whether to say yes or no, you must choose the response that feels like freedom. Period. Martha Beck
essence perfect shining
We are not meant to be seen as God's perfect, bright-shining examples, but to be seen as the everyday essence of ordinary life exhibiting the miracle of His grace. Oswald Chambers
essence election constitution
The right of election is the very essence of the constitution.
essence terrorism danger
The uncertainty of the danger belongs to the essence of terrorism. Jurgen Habermas
essence surrender supremacy
To say that we have to surrender to judicial supremacy is to do what Jefferson warned against, which is, in essence, surrender to judicial tyranny. Mike Huckabee
essence play differences
The only safe thing is to take a chance. Play safe and you are dead. Taking risks is the essence of good work, and the difference between safe and bold can only be defined by yourself since no one else knows for what you are hoping when you embark on anything. Mike Nichols
essence canada transcendentalism
Canada is the essence of not being. Not English, not American, it is the mathematic of not being. And a subtle flavour - we're more like celery as a flavour. Mike Myers
essence essence-of-life conflict
Conflict is the very essence of life. Mary Roberts Rinehart
essence firsts states
Form displays the relation [to beings] itself as the state of original comportment toward beings, the festive state in which the being itself in its essence is celebrated and thus for the first time placed in the open. Martin Heidegger
essence personality vapor
But in my life, in my personality, there is an essence of falseness and insincerity. A thin, fine vapor of fraud hangs always over me and dampens and injures some things in me that I value. Mary MacLane
essence gentleman way
The essence of being a gentleman is to understand the way you're supposed to treat a respectable woman. Ne-Yo