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• Beyond the beauty of external forms, there is more here: something that cannot be named, something ineffable, some deep, inner, holy essence. Whenever and wherever there is beauty, this inner essence shines through somehow. It only reveals itself to you when you are present.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Inspirational, Shining, Holy

  Eckhart Tolle (2001). “Practicing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings, Meditations, and Exercises from the Power of Now”, p.58, New World Library

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• When we dance we touch the essence of who we are and experience the unity between spirit and matter.

  Angeles Arrien

  Unity, Who We Are, Matter

  Angeles Arrien (1993). “The four-fold way”

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• I said before, the most beautiful and most profound religious emotion that we can experience is the sensation of the mystical. And this mysticality is the power of all true science. If there is any such concept as a God, it is a subtle spirit, not an image of a man that so many have fixed in their minds. In essence, my religion consists of a humble admiration for this illimitable superior spirit that reveals itself in the slight details that we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds.

  Albert Einstein

  Beautiful, Religious, Humble

  Peter A. Bucky, Albert Einstein, Allen G. Weakland (1992). “The private Albert Einstein”, Andrews McMeel Pub

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• Our world, so we see and hear on all sides, is drowning in materialism, commercialism, consumerism. But the problem is not really there. What we ordinarily speak of as materialism is a result, not a cause. The root of materialism is a poverty of ideas about the inner and the outer world. Less and less does our contemporary culture have, or even seek, commerce with great ideas, and it is that lack that is weakening the human spirit. This is the essence of materialism. Materialism is a disease of the mind starved for ideas.

  Jacob Needleman

  Our World, Ideas, Roots

  Jacob Needleman (2003). “The American Soul: Rediscovering the Wisdom of the Founders”, p.16, Penguin

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• The essence of saintliness is total acceptance of the present moment,
  harmony with things as they happen.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Acceptance, Moments, Harmony

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• From the body of the unborn essence arises the sphere of light, and from that sphere of light arises wisdom. From the wisdom arises the seed syllable and from the seed syllable arises the complete Mandala, the deity and the retinue.

  Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

  Light, Spheres, Deities

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• Silence... is the essence of the music itself, the vital ingredient that makes it possible for the music to exist at all.

  Alfred Brendel

  Silence, Ingredients, Silence Is

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• When you know who you truly are, there is an abiding alive sense of peace.
  You could call it joy because that's what joy is: vibrantly alive peace. It is the joy of knowing yourself as the very life essence before life takes on form. That is the joy of Being - of being who you truly are.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Knowing, Joy, Abiding

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.57, New World Library

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• The essence of all beauty, I call love.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Essence Of Beauty

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.179

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• The essence of fighting is the art of moving at the right time.

  Bruce Lee

  Art, Moving, Fighting

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• The awakening is the purpose. The awakening of the fact that in essence we are light, we are love. Each cell of our body, each cell and molecule of everything. The power source that runs all life is light. So to awaken to that knowledge, and to desire to operate in that realm, and to believe that it is possible, are all factors that will put you there.

  Dolores Cannon

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• If someone praises you with what you are not, they are in essence criticizing you of a deficiency in you.

  Wahb ibn Munabbih

  Praise, Criticize, Deficiency

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• The sons of Adam are limbs of each other, Having been created of one essence. When the calamity of time affects one limb, the other limbs cannot remain at rest. If you have no sympathy for the troubles of others, You are unworthy to be called by the name of a human.

  Saadi

  Son, Names, Trouble

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• Everything is Spirit - in essence, though hidden in manifestation. If you had the perception, you would see God in everything.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Perception, Spirit, Manifestation

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• The essence of Taoism is really expressed by these few words. Taoism is the way of the child, the way of the fool, the way of someone who doesn't need to be noticed.

  Frederick Lenz

  Children, Taoism, Needs

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• The essence of love is that what is ours should belong to someone else. Feeling the joy of someone else as joy within ourselves-that is loving.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Love Is, Joy, Feelings

  Emanuel Swedenborg, George F. Dole, Gregory R. Johnson, Jonathan S. Rose, Reuben P. Bell (2003). “Divine Love and Wisdom”, p.68, The Swedenborg Foundation

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• The essence of life is to care. The beauty of life is to give.

  William Arthur Ward

  Giving, Spices, Care

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• Now understand me well. It is provided in the essence of things that from any fruition of success, no matter what, shall come forth something to make a greater struggle necessary.

  Walt Whitman

  Struggle, Fruition, Matter

  Walt Whitman “Annotated LEAVES OF GRASS with English Grammar Exercises: by Walt Whitman (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC

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• The point is not how long you meditate; the point is whether the practice actually brings you to a certain state of mindfulness and presence, where you are a little open and able to connect with your heart essence. And five minutes of wakeful sitting practice is of far greater value than twenty minutes of dozing!

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Heart, Practice, Long

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• The inability to stop is the essence of what addiction is, ... my favorite drug was more and all.

  Nora Volkow

  Addiction, Drug, Inability

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• 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

  Responsibility, Exercise, Creative

  Angela Merkel's Speech before the US Congress, www.spiegel.de. November 4, 2009.

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• Though the Holy Spirit is God, equal in essence to the Father and the Son, yet his role is consistently to defer honor, to seek to bring about the glory of another.

  Bruce A. Ware

  Father, Son, Honor

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• 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

  May, Dimensions, Being There

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “Stillness Speaks”, p.13, New World Library

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• The essence of temptation is the invitation to live independently of God.

  Neil T Anderson

  Temptation, Invitations

  Neil T. Anderson, Joanne Anderson (2000). “Daily in Christ”, Harvest House Publishers

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• An elementary particle is not an independently existing, unanalyzable entity. It is, in essence, a set of relationships that reaches outward to other things.

  Henry Stapp

  Vegetarian, Entity, Reach Out

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