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• Although you appear in earthly form Your essence is pure Consciousness. You are the fearless guardian of Divine Light.

  Rumi

  Light, Fearless, Consciousness

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• By virtue of this science the poet is the Namer, or Language-maker, naming things sometimes after their appearance, sometimes after their essence, and giving to every one its own name and not another's, thereby rejoicing the intellect, which delights in detachment or boundary.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Names, Giving, Delight

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.192, Penguin

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• If you look too closely at the form, you miss the Essence.

  Rumi

  Missing, Looks, Form

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• And now I am ready to keep running When the sun rises beyond the borderlands of death. I already see mountain ridges in the heavenly forest Where, beyond every essence, a new essence awaits.

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Running, Memorial, Mountain

  Czeslaw Milosz, “Winter”

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• Have the willingness to go into the roots of your worst fear until you feel the essence of what you are, your pure potential, the foundation of what you really are.

  Brandon Bays

  Healing, Roots, Foundation

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• Oppression is the essence of power.

  Ernst Kaltenbrunner

  Oppression

  Said to Heinrich Himmler. "The Rand McNally Encyclopedia of World War II". Book by John Keegan, p. 137, 1977.

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• Love is not a quality of 'God'- is it God's very Essence. It is the ALL-encompassing Reality of the Never-Ending Present. It is the Core of Your Existence.

  David Hawkins

  Love, Reality, Quality

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• The essence of fascism is to make laws forbidding everything and then enforce them selectively against your enemies.

  John Lescroart

  Law, Enemy, Fascism

  John Lescroart (2009). “A Plague of Secrets”, p.90, Penguin

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• It’s like there is this predator energy on this planet, and this predator energy feeds on the essence of the spirit.

  John Trudell

  Energy, Predator, Spirit

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• In the society of illusion, reality must manifest itself. The story songs of Joel Rafael are that manifestation... the essence of minstrel.

  John Trudell

  Song, Reality, Stories

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• The essence of religion, in my view, is the thirst for an end higher than natural ends.

  C. S. Lewis

  Views, Natural, Ends

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.137, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• For prayer is request. The essence of request, as distinct from compulsion, is that it may or may not be granted.

  C. S. Lewis

  Prayer, May, Granted

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

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• It may seem impossible to imagine that a technologically advanced society could choose, in essence, to destroy itself, but that is what we are now in the processnof doing.

  Elizabeth Kolbert

  Climate, May, Impossible

  Elizabeth Kolbert (2012). “Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Climate Change - Is Time Running Out?”, p.130, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• 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 not altering it entirely.

  Tony Blair

  Taken, Doubt, Climate

  Tony Blair's Speech on the Environment and the 'Urgent Issue' of Climate Change, www.theguardian.com. September 15, 2004.

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• If we can change ourselves, we can change the world. We're not the victims of the world we see, we're the victims of the way we see the world. This is the essence of Compassionate Listening: seeing the person next to you as a part of yourself.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Peace, Listening, World

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• If they think they are doing something new, they ought to do what I do every day - spend at least two hours every day listening to Johann Sebastian Bach and, man, it's all there. If they want to improvise around a theme,which is the essence of jazz, they should learn from the master. He never wastes a note, and he knows where every note is going and when to bring it back. Some of these cats go way out and forget where they began or what they started to do. Bach will clear it up for them.

  Coleman Hawkins

  Music, Learning, Cat

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• To follow Story is to understand the path of healing. Each of our stories is a universe. Each one of us is living a story. To discover its shape and essence is essential to soul making.

  Deena Metzger

  Healing, Soul, Essentials

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• The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person. Reactive people are driven by feelings, by circumstances, by conditions, by their environment. Proactive people are driven by values - carefully thought about, selected and internalized values.

  Stephen Covey

  People, Feelings, Vision

  Stephen R. Covey (2015). “The Stephen R. Covey Interactive Reader - 4 Books in 1: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, First Things First, and the Best of the Most Renowned Leadership Teacher of our Time”, p.98, Mango Media Inc.

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• Music acts on the whole of the organism like a magic force which suppresses the understanding and irresistibly takes possession of the entire being. To insist on analysing this force is to destroy its very essence.

  Emile Jaques-Dalcroze

  Music, Art, Understanding

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• Anyone can have a good day. The question is what do you do on a bad day. That's when you're being tested. In a very tangible sense, a bad day shows your innermost essence more than a good day.

  Arthur Golden

  Good Day, Bad Day, Tangible

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• That, in essence, is the catastrophe of suicide for those who survive: not only the loss of someone, but the loss of the chance to persuade that person to act differently, the loss of the chance to connect.

  Andrew Solomon

  Suicide, Loss, Chance

  Andrew Solomon (2014). “The Noonday Demon: An Atlas Of Depression”, p.265, Simon and Schuster

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• The stresses of high-altitude climbing reveal your true character; they unmask who you really are. You no longer have all the social graces to hide behind, to play roles. You are the essence of what you are.

  David Breashears

  Stress, Character, Climbing

  David Breashears, Jon Krakauer (2000). “High Exposure: An Enduring Passion for Everest and Unforgiving Places”, p.274, Simon and Schuster

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• On the mainland, a rain was falling. The famous Seattle rain. The thin, gray rain that toadstools love. The persistent rain that knows every hidden entrance into collar and shopping bag. The quiet rain that can rust a tin roof without the tin roof making a sound in protest. The shamanic rain that feeds the imagination. The rain that seems actually a secret language, whispering, like the ecstasy of primitives, of the essence of things.

  Tom Robbins

  Rain, Fall, Shopping

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• The essence of successful discipline is not technique; rather, it is self-confidence.

  John Rosemond

  Self Confidence, Successful, Discipline

  John Rosemond (1996). “Because I Said So!: A Collection of 366 Insightful and Thought- Provoking Reflections on Parenting and Family Life”, p.169, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Simplicity is the essence of universality.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Simplicity, Universality

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.87, Rajpal & Sons

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