Essence Quotes

“SENSES, APPEARANCE, ESSENCE and EXISTENCE
The world we see with our senses is very different than the world we see through our essence. Our senses perceive the world of appearance. Our essence perceives the deeper layers of existence. The first step of perceiving the world of essence is to have no goal other than to understand. "Understanding" has to be the ultimate goal. Only then, can we solve the problems.”
― Petek Kabakci

“It is the truth, a force of nature that expresses itself through me—I am only a channel—I can imagine in many instances where I would become sinister to you.

For instance, if life had led you to take up an artificial attitude, then you wouldn't be able to stand me, because I am a natural being.

By my very presence I crystallize; I am a ferment.

The unconscious of people who live in an artificial manner senses me as a danger.

Everything about me irritates them, my way of speaking, my way of laughing.

They sense nature.”
― C.G. Jung

“Good and bad lies within and without one other loses its mean and essence.”
― Zaman Ali, HUMANITY Understanding Reality and Inquiring Good

“I saw cities, and roads of marvelous construction. I saw cruelty and greed, but I've seen them here too. I saw a people live a life that was strange in many ways, but also much the same as anywhere else."
"Then why are they so cruel?" There was an earnestness to the girl's face, an honest desire to know.
"Cruelty is in all of us," he said. "But they made it a virtue.”
― Anthony Ryan, Queen of Fire

“What is essential is to suddenly make a move totally unexpected by the opponent, pick up on the advantage of fright, and seize the victory right then and there.”
― Miyamoto Musashi, The Book of Five Rings

“Your Soul is the place within you that is timeless, ageless, and eternal: it is the ultimate core and essence of who you truly are.”
― Mateo Sol, Awakened Empath: The Ultimate Guide to Emotional, Psychological and Spiritual Healing

“The man who carries a parcel is anxious not to lose it -- he is parcel-conscious. The man who cherishes the feeling 'I am' is self-conscious. The jnani holds on to nothing and cannot be said to be conscious. And yet he is not unconscious. He is the very heart of awareness. We call him digambara clothed in space, the Naked One, beyond all appearance. There is no name and shape under which he may be said to exist, yet he is the only one that truly is.”
― Nisargadatta Maharaj

“The essence of one life is empowering another life, and so your passion has to be linked to the liberation of other people’s happiness.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts

“How can we “find ourselves” again? How can man “know himself”? He is a thing obscure and veiled. If the hare has seven skins, man can cast from him seventy times seven skins, and not be able to say: “Here you truly are; there is skin no more.”

Also this digging into oneself, this straight, violent descent into the pit of one’s being, is a troublesome and dangerous business to start. You may easily take such hurt, that no doctor can heal you. And what is the point: since everything bears witness to our essence — our friendships and enmities, our looks and greetings, our memories and forgetfulnesses, our books and our writing!”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Schopenhauer as Educator

“If I knew then what I know now
I guess it'd make no difference;
Fate's sure in the way somehow.
What's important is the essence.
Although we still have free will
We also have a whole lot to deal.”
― Ana Claudia Antunes, The Tao of Physical and Spiritual

“SENSES, APPEARANCE, ESSENCE and EXISTENCE
The world we see with our senses are very different than the world we see through our essence. Our senses perceive the world of appearance. Our essence perceive the deeper layers of existence. The first step of perceiving the world of essence is not to have any goal other than to understand. "Understanding" has to be the ultimate goal. Then, we can solve the problems.”
― Petek Kabakci

“Indeed neither life nor science bothers about "essences"-they leave "essences" to metaphysics, which is neither life nor science.”
― Alfred Korzybski, Manhood of Humanity: The Science and Art of Human Engineering

“Your whatness
is what we share with you,
our togetherness.
Your thisness
is your separate essence,
your distinctness.
I love you for your whatness,
for the me in you, and the you in us.
I love you for your thisness,
your eternal soul,
deathless and endless.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“The source and essence of all creation can be found everywhere. It resides equally in you, in me, and in all things. True wisdom is the fullest understanding of this essence--an understanding that can happen only when there is no separation between the knower and the known.”
― Victor Shamas, The Way of Play: Reclaiming Divine Fun & Celebration

“Time is the essence of life”
― Sunday Adelaja

“The essence of adversity is to show us the real brave people who can withstand it.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts

“SENSES, APPEARANCE and ESSENCE
The world we see through our senses are very different than the world we see through our essence. Senses perceive the world of appearance. The first step of perceiving the world of essence is not to have any goal other than to understand. "Understanding" has to be the ultimate goal. Then, we can solve the problems.”
― Petek Kabakci

“Promises aren't like shooting stars, if broken you get to make a wish. They are like sheets of paper, once torn they won't carry the same essence.”
― Mohit Kaushik |Yenugwar|

“In this being may our treatise find its end and fulfillment.”
― Thomas Aquinas, On Being and Essence

“Love is the essence of who God is”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Love must become the essence of our being”
― Sunday Adelaja

“One basis for life and another basis for science is a priori a lie.”
― Karl Marx

“Question is the Champion of Quest”
― Vineet Raj Kapoor

“We were created to work (not have jobs) for a living”
― Sunday Adelaja

“You have to discover the essence of your life”
― Sunday Adelaja

“You have to discover the essence of your creation”
― Sunday Adelaja

“We all must travel,' the driver said, keeping his eyes on the way ahead. His hands grasped the wheel firmly. 'It is the essence of all things, to move and change and keep going forward and backward and around. Even the spirits and the dead.”
― Nnedi Okorafor, Kabu Kabu

“In the vast spectrum of space-time’s coeternal continuum, I am but a glint of bundled energy held together by the translucent fiber of creative consciousness. The misty dew of private thoughts that inhabit my streaky underworld briefly forms a splintery part of the glittering arena of the cosmos. In the ether-like dawn of my awakening, my minuscule arch appears intravenously injected amid the dark matter of the nightscape. Reminiscent of the morning’s dew, my comet’s tailed reflection disintegrates and dissipates without a lasting trace in the dawn of a new age. I shall never wholly cease to exist, since my filtrate potentiality – a trace of my essence – remains suspended forevermore in celestial wonderment.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“I understand why King Solomon asked for wisdom from God. For wisdom is like oil to a lamp, what would be the essence of having a lamp without oil in darkness?”
― Gift Gugu Mona

“Upon watching a young child do, explore, or create something, you are witnessing an unconditioned essential spirit willing itself into direct action towards a result.”
― Garry Fitchett