Quotes by Essence Everybody who cares for his art seeks the essence of his own technique. Dziga Vertov techniqueessenceart That is the essence and mission of 'rebel buddha': to free us from the illusions we create by ourselves, about ourselves, and from those that masquerade as reality in our cultural and religious institutions. Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche essencereligiousreality To blend, without coercion, the individual good and the common good is the essence of citizenship in a free country. Dwight D. Eisenhower essencecoercioncountry The essence of the game is not "fun," but the soul-satisfying awareness that comes from communal work and sacrifice. Earl Blaik sacrificeessencefun We are on earth as extensions of God to finish the work He began. We are the essence of God, His on-going incarnation in the world. Earl Paulk essenceearthworld In essence, I'm a sophisticated cotton picker. Eartha Kitt cottonsophisticatedessence The essence of humanity's spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the dilemma, to resolve the contradictions between the transcendentalist and the empiricist world views? E. O. Wilson essencespiritualviews All a child's life depends on the ideal it has of its parents. Destroy that and everything goes — morals, behaviour, everything. Absolute trust in some one else is the essence of education. E. M. Forster parentessencechildren The essence of war is fire, famine, and pestilence. They contribute to its outbreak; they are among its weapons; they become its consequences. Dwight D. Eisenhower essencefirewar The whole essence of Zen consists in walking along the razor's edge of Now - to be so utterly, so completely present that no problem, no suffering, nothing that is not who you are in your essence, can survive in you. In the Now, in the absence of time, all your problems dissolve. Suffering needs time; it cannot survive in the Now. Eckhart Tolle essencesufferingtime Having an open mind does not necessarily lead to perfection. It is your ability to observe, analyze, discern, and understand the true essence that basic principles contain that point the way to perfection. Ed Parker essenceperfectionmind In you, as in each human being, there is a dimension of consciousness far deeper than thought. It is the very essence of who you are. We may call it presence, awareness, the unconditioned consciousness. Eckhart Tolle dimensionsessencemay The tragedy of preparedness has scarcely been handled, save by the Greeks. Life is indeed dangerous, but not in the way morality would have us believe. It is indeed unmanageable, but the essence of it is not a battle. It is unmanageable because it is a romance, and its essence is romantic beauty. E. M. Forster romanceessencebelieve The outer form is a temporary reflection of what you are within, in your essence. That is why love and beauty can never leave you, although all outer forms will. Eckhart Tolle beauty-withinessencereflection For me what was very important was to try to capture the essence that might have existed behind the myth, the human essence of the character. Edgar Ramirez essencetryingcharacter Life—God—in its essence is vibration. Edgar Cayce vibrationsessence To know another human being in their essence, you don’t really need to know anything about them - their past, their history, their story. We confuse knowing about with a deeper knowing that is non-conceptual. Knowing about and knowing are totally different modalities. One is concerned with form, the other with the formless. One operates through thought, the other through stillness. Eckhart Tolle knowingessencepast Even a stone, and more easily a flower or a bird, could show you the way back to God, to the Source, to yourself. When you look at it or hold it & let it be without imposing a word of mental label on it, a sense of awe, of wonder, arises within you. Its essence silently communicates itself to you and reflects your own essence back to you. Eckhart Tolle floweressencebird The soul is your innermost being. The presence that you are beyond form. The consciousness that you are beyond form, that is the soul. That is who you are in essence. Eckhart Tolle consciousnessessencesoul In other words, I believed, and still do believe, that truth, is frequently of its own essence, superficial, and that, in many cases, the depth lies more in the abysses where we seek her, than in the actual situations wherein she may be found. Edgar Allan Poe essencebelievelying«1819202122232425262728»
