Top 100 Quotes About Our Essence
#1. The most important therapeutic capacity is the ability to be present with an open heart and to be grounded in our inner being,in our essence and authentic self, in the meditative quality within, through which we can meet another person. It is to meet that which is already perfect within a person.
Swami Dhyan Giten
#2. When we are able to look beyond appearances and to behold that which we truly are, we recognize that our essence is interwoven with the divine and that we exist as one of its expressions.
Alexandra Katehakis
#3. People believe that when we pass on, our essence is what lights the stars in the universe.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#4. I love to travel. I think it's the best education to experience how other people live. It reminds us of the abundance and variety we have in the world, but at our essence, we are all the same, we all want the same things: to live well, pursue our dreams, and be happy.
Kandyse McClure
#5. Surely we have a responsibility to finally listen to - and honor - the siren calls of our souls, which have been silenced by our egos throughout our lives? How else can we connect with our essence, the source of our calling?
Lance Secretan
#6. Our Essence of Mind is intrinsically pure,
and if we knew our mind and realized what our nature is, all of us would
attain Buddhahood.
Huineng
#7. We laugh at the efforts of the musk deer to find the source of the scent which comes from itself and despair at our efforts to find the peace which is our essence.
Ramakrishna
#8. Leadership is a dynamic process that expresses our skill, our aspirations, and our essence as human beings.
Catherine Robinson-Walker
#9. Pure love of God is our nature, but we are so much diverted, so much distracted by the externals that we've forgotten that it's our essence.
Radhanath Swami
#10. Sweet fiction, in which bravado and despair beckon from a cold panache, in which the protected essential self suffers flashes of its existence to be immortalized by a writing self that is incapable of performing its actions without mixing our essence with what is false.
Frank Bidart
#11. Science sometimes falls short when trying to fathom the depths of our essence - and our inspiration comes from that essence.
Lance Secretan
#12. We are the Children of Stardust.
The Seekers of Truth and ever growing Wisdom of Nature.
Our beliefs may change, our form may alter, and even our World may crumble,
but our Essence will live in this Universe forever!
Carla VanKoughnett
#13. If loneliness is part of our essence, that is, our essential nature, that is only because of the way, in practical terms, we actually exist; that is, the way we move and work and live in the world.
Brendan Myers
#14. A life truly lived constantly burns away veils of illusion, burns away what is no longer relevant, gradually reveals our essence, until, at last, we are strong enough to stand in our naked truth.
Marion Woodman
#15. Because we all carry the Truth within us as our essence, we recognize it immediately.
Eckhart Tolle
#17. In war, we always deform ourselves, our essence.
Chris Hedges
#18. What part of ourselves needs to evaporate in order to concentrate our essence? What do we have to let go?
Andrew Weil
#19. In its purest form, a union becomes part of our very essence. And when that bond is broken, our essence is forever changed.
Emily Thorne
#20. If we don't know ourselves, our essence, where our true power comes from, we will believe our power comes from collecting victories, trophies, money, or recognition. And these are all fine, but it's not ultimately what life is about. When we think it is, we really waste our greatest possibilities.
Arianna Huffington
#21. As we transform ourselves into creatures of the screen, we face an existential question: Does our essence still lie in what we know, or are we now content to be defined by what we want? If we don't grapple with that question ourselves, our gadgets will be happy to answer it for us.
Deborah Blum
#22. Light and darkness
Exist in each of us
How bright our essence radiates
Is integrally linked with
How honorable is our goodness
Michelle Carbotte
#23. t was beautiful, being there with Elliott. It was like there was nothing except him and me. I remember his palms, his chest, his chin, but it was like we were more than just our bodies. As if our essence was there in the darkness.
Jaclyn Moriarty
#24. Love is what we are in our essence, and the more love we feel in our hearts, the more it will be brought to us.
Deepak Chopra
#25. The Latina spirit translates to every aspect of our lives, from beauty to work to family. We're loving, we're loud, and we're beautiful in our essence.
Eva Longoria
#26. Our essence is change. We are movement. Being out of balance is life.
Perfect balance. Stasis. That is death.
Life yearns for perfection. Death is perfection.
Chris Boucher
#27. The air was full of their scent, sweet and heady, and it seemed to me as though their very essence had mingled with the running waters of the stream, and become one with the falling rain and the dank rich moss beneath our fee
Daphne Du Maurier
#28. Each day is new, but our lives shall be old in each new day if we fail to understand why each day is new.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#29. We are essence of love, and when we die that love returns to our Father. This angel's love was corrupted, so I believe my Father sent his essence elsewhere. Possible Detroit, but that my have just been a joke.
John Wiltshire
#30. The chief danger to our philosophy, apart from laziness and woolliness, is scholasticism, the essence of which is treating what is vague as if it were precise and trying to fit it into an exact logical category.
Frank P. Ramsey
#31. You must understand what the Parthenon Marbles mean to us. They are our pride. They are our sacrifices. They are our noblest symbol of excellence. They are a tribute to the democratic philosophy. They are our aspirations and our name. They are the essence of Greekness.
Melina Mercouri
#32. Extravagant love, as in every generation before us, has been ridiculed and scorned. it is seen as wasteful and reckless overspending. But extravagant love, the offering of everything, the emptying of the pockets of our life, is the essence of true Christianity.
Eric Ludy
#33. The very essence of politeness is to take care that by our words and actions we make other people pleased with us as well as with themselves.
Jean De La Bruyere
#34. Who can say it's not what we see with our eyes open that is distorted, and that what's described here isn't the true essence of things?" He slowed down outside a door. "Haven't you ever heard old men sigh that life's a dream?
Ismail Kadare
#35. We are not built for mediocrity, but we build it into our lives nonetheless.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#36. As you experience success in applying kaizen to clear goals like weight loss or career advancement, remember to hold onto its essence: an optimistic belief in our potential for continuous improvement.
Robert D. Maurer
#37. Wherein lies happiness? In that which becks
Our ready minds to fellowship divine,
A fellowship with essence; till we shine,
Full alchemiz'd, and free of space. Behold
The clear religion of heaven!
John Keats
#38. Our true reality is not a limited phenomenon, existing only between birth and death. It is eternal life that exists alone, self-existent and self-sufficient, the essence of all that is, was, and ever will be throughout the universe. That is what you really are.
Ilchi Lee
#39. I am intrigued by the basics of human life, by our vulnerability, our desires, our sexuality - as far as I am concerned, character is expressed through sexuality. Art is able to represent human existence stripped to its essence by showing us the naked human body.
Thomas Koerfer
#40. Humans are wired to want to share love, the essence of our being, with others. The more we close this area off by holding onto anger, frustrations, resentments and disappointments, the less we are able to love ourselves and others.
Antonia Hall
#41. The diverse religions and races bring beauty to the world if we truly understand in our hearts the essence of who we are and what we stand for. And that really is the essence of spirituality.
Radhanath Swami
#42. Perhaps the essence of our evolution as human beings is to keep answering, on deeper and deeper levels, the basic question: Who am I?
Nathaniel Branden
#43. Making mental connections is our most crucial learning tool, the essence of human intelligence; to forge links; to go beyond the given; to see patterns, relationships, context.
Marilyn Ferguson
#44. Our sense of justice depends on our sense of time. Justice is a phenomenon only of consciousness, because time spread out in a spatial succession is its very essence. And this is possible only in a spatial metaphor of time.
Julian Jaynes
#45. Our invisibility is the essence of our oppression. And until we eliminate that invisibility, people are going to be able to perpetuate the lies and myths about gay people.
Jean O'Leary
#46. When our goals are clearly defined and intelligently set, you have, in essence, taken a major step toward programming your left brain. That frees your right brain to be its creative best.
Zig Ziglar
#47. Although we experience our nonphysical levels of self as potential, they are also functional in our lives. An acorn is a potential oak tree, but the oak tree could be seen as the essence of the acorn, guiding its development into the oak tree.
Shepherd Hoodwin
#48. We need our president to be successful because our futures are all tied to the success of America, which means America's government, which means, in essence, the president.
Michael Bloomberg
#49. We are here to awaken to the reality of our true identity - that we are sparks of the Eternal Imperishable Spirit, who is the source of all Creation and the very essence of our being.
Shriram Sharma
#50. The conflict of forces and the struggle of opposing wills are of the essence of our universe and alone hold it together.
Havelock Ellis
#51. The greatest gift we have ever received, and ever will or could receive, is the Spirit of God Himself. He enters the essence of our human form and changes us from within. He fills us with joy, love and peace. He subdues our passions and transforms our very being into the likeness of Christ.
David Paul Kirkpatrick
#52. The essence of our salvation is found in this phrase: Simul justus et pecator.
R.C. Sproul
#53. We should all celebrate the magnitude of diverse and unique souls that live in our world today, for it is an essence that makes our lives colourful every single
day.
Gloria D. Gonsalves
#55. Right here where you and I stand, we shall behold a true and radiant world. In that world, we shall dance only our divine essence.
Ruth St. Denis
#56. In the very essence of poetry there is something indecent; A thing brought forth that we didn't know we had in us, So we blink our eyes, as if a tiger had sprung out And stood in the light, licking its tail.
Czeslaw Milosz
#57. until we courageously find a cheaper antidote to our ignorance, we shall courageously pay a higher price for our ignorance always
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#58. On the surface, reality may appear the same each day, but in essence, we are new every moment of our lives. The potential for change and growth is unlimited if we allow ourselves to surrender to the flow.
Dorit Brauer
#59. We have to discover the essence of our creation for us to carry out our purpose as believers
Sunday Adelaja
#60. Unfurl your muscles. Slip off your skin. Drop your guts in a heap on the floor."
I felt my airway constrict. Damn, this was profound. I continued. "Nuzzle inside the hollow of my bones. Let our breaths mingle as one. Turn liquid for me. Only for me. Bury your essence inside of my soul.
Christina Lee
#61. Oh you, unceasing sun, to me Your particles communicate The luminous essence of God, Are you our God? I do not know. Intoxicated, I say nought, Bewitched by the magic potion. I cannot differentiate Between my drunk and sober state.
Rumi
#62. The essence of meditation is a period of time set aside to contemplate the Lord, listen to Him, and allow Him to permeate our spirits.
Charles Stanley
#63. Spirituality is the poetry of our experience. Science is the gauge of our reality. Together, they create the essence of our humanity.
Steve Maraboli
#64. The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them. That's the essence of inhumanity.
George Bernard Shaw
#65. General ideas are essences. They are our gods: they round and ennoble the most partial and sordid way of living.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#66. Work is, after all, not a busy running back and forth in established grooves, though that is the essence of our modern business and academic life, but the supreme energy and disciplined curiosity required to cut new grooves.
Hugh Nibley
#67. All we have to do to see is open our eyes and look. As we teach what we learn, I am in essence talking to myself.
Paul Levy
#68. Some people wear their scars on the outside. Others wear them on the inside. Same difference. Your character, your heart, your essence, that's what's important, because that's the real you. All the rest, our looks, the material stuff? It's just meaningless bullshit.
Kim Holden
#69. The essence of sculpture is for me the perception of space, the continuum of our existence.
Isamu Noguchi
#70. The only art we can create is that which authentically reflects who we are. Our soul is the material for all we create. Thus, to nurture the artisan soul, essence is far more important than talent.
Erwin Raphael McManus
#71. Imagining what it is like to be someone other than yourself is at the core of our humanity. It is the essence of compassion and the beginning of morality
Ian McEwan
#72. Early in this century a group of passionate artists in Russia claimed that the essence of art was to make the familiar seem strange. Perhaps this is also one of the roles of the exotic, to alter and sharpen our perceptions.
SueEllen Campbell
#73. You shall learn that reality is a cover, that imagination is our true essence. That a blur is more beautiful than what it hides, that scrutiny is a curse and that those who enjoy it are more miserable than how much happier it makes them think they become!
Ibraheem Hamdi
#74. The essence of life is the sharing of our perceptions of it with each other.
Al Cash
#75. Real happiness comes from having an unassailable connection to the deep state of unbounded awareness at our core. This state of being is our own inner joy that expresses the exuberance and wonder of being alive at this moment; it is our own self-luminous essence made conscious of itself.
Deepak Chopra
#76. Freedom of movement is the very essence of our free society
once the right to travel is curtailed, all other rights suffer.
William O. Douglas
#77. There is no doubt that the time to act is now. It is now that timely action can avert disaster. It is now that with foresight and will such action can be taken without disturbing the essence of our way of life, by adjusting behaviour, but not altering it entirely.
Tony Blair
#78. presses, and in our implied agreement with the old scytheman it is of the essence of the contract. I
Bram Stoker
#79. I believe that dialogue is the key to breaking through our tendency to separate and isolate. Dialogue changes isolation and loneliness into connection and interdependence. This, I believe, is the essence of Buddhism.
Vinessa Shaw
#80. It is through realizing loving presence as our very essence, through being that presence, that we discover true freedom.
Tara Brach
#81. Time is the very essence of life itself, and life exists in our hearts.
Michael Ende
#82. AIM in essence is a movement rather than just an organization. It is a manifestation of the desperation of our people.
Leonard Peltier
#83. The search for some ultimate significance in the universe, and in our little transient role in it, the compulsion to learn, to know, to find the truth, to answer questions and solve problems - these constitute the essence of an aware existence, the central core of intelligent life.
Dale Rex Coman
#84. Creativity and imagination are not frosting on a cake: They are integral to our sustainability. They are survival mechanisms. They are of the essence of who we are. They constitute our deepest empowerment.
Matthew Fox
#85. The peculiar essence of our banking system is an unprecedented trust between man and man. And when that trust is much weakened by hidden causes, a small accident may greatly hurt it, and a great accident for a moment may almost destroy it.
Walter Bagehot
#86. creativity isn't a luxury. It's the essence of life. It's what distinguishes us from the mush. And it's why our ancestors survived while other less adaptive critters perished. They responded to change by being creative in some way, by inventing a new answer to the chaos.
Danny Gregory
#87. Knowledge is the distilled essence of our institutions, corroborated by experience.
Elbert Hubbard
#88. The image is not a medium for which we have to find the proper use. It is what it is and it is beyond all our moral considerations. It is by its essence immoral, and the world's becoming-image is an immoral process.
Jean Baudrillard
#89. Freedom is the very essence of our economy and society. Without freedom the human mind is prevented from unleashing its creative force. But what is also clear is that this freedom does not stand alone. It is freedom in responsibility and freedom to exercise responsibility.
Angela Merkel
#90. If we marvel at God's law, our core essence delights in keeping it.
Glenda Mathes
#91. Giving someone or something our entire attention, with no preconceived ideas or agendas whatever, is the essence of love.
Richard Chamberlain
#92. I would not change very much about the American theater. I marvel and rejoice in the way the country's regional theaters have formed a network that has become, in essence, our National Theater.
Ken Ludwig
#93. There will be no danger of idolatry. The earth and the heavens and all things will declare the glory of God, and the essence of our joy in them will be joy in him. What makes our reward truly great is the greater fullness of our fellowship with God.
John Piper
#94. Music, at its essence, is what gives us memories. And the longer a song has existed in our lives, the more memories we have of it.
Stevie Wonder
#95. To make a name in the language of the Bible is to construct an identity for ourselves. We either get our name - our defining essence, security, worth, and uniqueness - from what God has done for us and in us (Revelation 2:17), or we make a name through what we can do for ourselves.
Timothy Keller
#96. The essence of our Faith consists simply in this freedom of the Ishta.
Swami Vivekananda
#97. The essence of wisdom, from a practical standpoint, is pausing long enough to look at our lives-invitations, opportunities, relationships-from God's perspective. And then acting on it
Charles Stanley
#98. Our task is not to penetrate the essence of things, the meaning of which we do not know anyway, but rather to develop concepts which allow us to talk in a productive way about phenomena in nature
Niels Bohr
#99. Learning to love yourself is the essence of receiving God's love. It is the ointment that brings healing to your wounded soul. Until we receive God's love and learn to love ourselves because of it, we will remain sick in our souls and live dysfunctional lives.
Joyce Meyer
