Quotes by Essence Whenever learners or those beyond learning awaken the mind, for the first time they plant one buddha-nature. Working with the four elements and five clusters, if they practice sincerely they attain enlightenment. Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment. This is because the four elements and five clusters and plants, trees, fences and walls are fellow students; because they are of the same essence, because they are the same mind and the same life, because they are the same body and the same mechanism. Dogen wallessencelife The essence of wisdom is to see that there is always a solution once you realize that the mind, which seems to create so much suffering, has infinite potential to create fulfillment instead. Deepak Chopra essencesufferingmind The essence of grace, we suppose, is that the account has been paid in advance; and, because it has been paid, everything can be had for nothing. Dietrich Bonhoeffer discipleshipessencegrace Any combining, mixing, adding, diluting, exploiting, vulgarizing, or popularizing of abstract art deprives art of its essence and depraves the artist's artistic consciousness. Art is free, but it is not a free-for-all. Donald Judd mixingessenceart The essence of chastity is not the suppression of lust, but the total orientation of one's life towards a goal. Without such a goal, chastity is bound to become ridiculous. Chastity is the sine qua non of lucidity and concentration. Dietrich Bonhoeffer essencegoallust Focus your awareness on the Divine spark of crystal-white light, sparkling within the center of your stomach area. See or feel this white spark of light, shining like a pilot light within you. This is the spark of your true essence, your shining flame from God. Feel the warmth within you, filling you completely with love and peaceful energy. Doreen Virtue flameslightessence The essence of God is consciousness. Consciousness can be used for either violence or peace; the choice is ours. When it is expanded, human consciousness chooses non-violence, since that is compatible with love. Deepak Chopra violencechoicesessence I'm going to make the obvious point that maybe the word neurotic means the condition of being highly conscious and developed. The essence of neurosis is conflict. But the essence of living now, fully, not blocking off to what goes on, is conflict. In fact I've reached the stage where I look at people and say - he or she, they are whole at all because they've chosen to block off at this stage or that. People stay sane by blocking off, by limiting themselves. Doris Lessing blockessencemean 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 realessenceself What ever beauty may be it has for its basis order and for its essence unity Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone. Dorothy Parker essencebeautyorder In fact, a sense of essence is, in essence, the essence of sense, in effect. Douglas Hofstadter effectsessencefacts Heroics that don't come off are the very essence of burlesque. Dorothy L. Sayers burlesqueessence The outfit soon took on color, dash and a unique flavor which is the essence of that elusive and deathless thing called soldiering. Douglas MacArthur coloruniqueessence I find myself unable to let go of the sense that human beings are somehow special, and that moment-to-moment human experience contains a certain unquantifiable essence. I still suspect there is something too quirky, too paradoxical, or too interpersonal to be imitated or re-created by machine life. Douglas Rushkoff essencespecialletting-go Thought creates things by slicing up reality into small bits that it can easily grasp. Thus when you are think-ing you are thing-ing. Thought does not report things, it distorts reality to create things, and as Bergson noted, "In so doing it allows what is the very essence of the real to escape." Thus to the extent we actually imagine a world of discrete and separate things, conceptions have become perceptions, and we have in this manner populated our universe with nothing but ghosts. D.T. Suzuki realessencethinking The essence of voluntary simplicity is living in a way what is outwardly simple and inwardly rich. Duane Elgin simplicityessencesimple Zen in it's essence is the art of seeing into the nature of one's being, and it points the way from bondage to freedom. D.T. Suzuki visionessenceart Zen, in its essence is the art of seeing into the nature of one's own being, and it points the way from bondage to freedom. By making us drink right from the fountain of life it liberates us from all the yokes under which we finite beings are usually suffering in this world. D.T. Suzuki essencesufferingart The claim of the Zen followers that they are transmitting the essence of Buddhism is based on their belief that Zen takes hold of the enlivening spirit of the Buddha, stripped of all its historical and doctrinal garments. D.T. Suzuki buddhismhistoricalessence To be true to one's own freedom is, in essence, to honor and respect the freedom of all others. Dwight D. Eisenhower honor-and-respectfreedomessence«1718192021222324252627»
