Essence Quotes - Page 26

• All law has its essence in causation.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Law, Causes, Causation

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Karma Yoga: The Yoga of Action”, p.55, Advaita Ashrama

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• I like to preserve simplicity rahter than over-polishing. Fashions are changeable. Taste is in realizing the essence of a place.

  Nancy Lancaster

  Fashion, Simplicity, Design

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• We are in a war of a peculiar nature. It is not with an ordinary community, which is hostile or friendly as passion or as interest may veer about: not with a state which makes war through wantonness, and abandons it through lassitude. We are at war with a system, which by its essence, is inimical to all other governments, and which makes peace or war, as peace and war may best contribute to their subversion. It is with an armed doctrine that we are at war. It has, by its essence, a faction of opinion, and of interest, and of enthusiasm, in every country.

  Edmund Burke

  Country, War, Passion

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• The essence of life is doing things for their own sakes.

  Bertrand Russell

  Wisdom, Sake, Life Is

  Bertrand Russell (2002). “The Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell: The Public Years, 1914-1970”, p.160, Psychology Press

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• Tapping into the essence of originating Spirit, emulating the attributes of the creative force of intention, and manifesting into your life anything that you desire that's consistent with the universal mind.

  Wayne Dyer

  Creativity, Creative, Mind

  Wayne W. Dyer (2010). “The Power of Intention”, p.60, Hay House, Inc

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• Style is the essence of man

  Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

  Men, Style

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• This is an age of intellectual sauces, of essence, of distillation. We have conclusions without deductions, abridgments of history and abridgments of science without leading facts. We have animals for literature, Cabinet Encyclopaedias, Family Libraries, Diffusion Societies, and heaven knows what else! What is all this for? Not to add knowledge to the learned, but to tell points to the ignorant, without giving them the trouble to acquire the links. Oh! it is sad work. And the result will be injurious to all classes.

  Benjamin Haydon

  Animal, Class, Giving

  Benjamin Robert Haydon, Frederick Wordsworth Haydon (1876). “Correspondence and Table-talk: With a Memoir”, p.450

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• 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

  Philosophy, Mean, Patriotic

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• Color contributes to beauty, but it is not beauty. Color should have a minor part in the consideration of beauty, because it is not color but the structure that constitutes its essence.

  Johann Joachim Winckelmann

  Color, Should Have, Consideration

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• Painting and art cannot be taught. You can save time if someone tells you to put blue and yellow together to make green, but the essence of painting is a self-disciplined activity that you have to learn by yourself.

  Romare Bearden

  Art, Yellow, Blue

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• Consider the idea of a God who is essentially sadness and longing, yearning to reveal himself, to know himself through a being who knows him, thereby depending on that being who is still himself - yet who in this sense creates Him. Here we have a vision which has never been professed outside of a few errant knights of mysticism. To profess this essential bipolarity of the divine essence is not to confuse creator and created, creature and creation. It is to experience the irrevocable solidarity between the Fravarti and its Soul, in the battle they undertake for each other`s sake.

  Henry Corbin

  Sadness, Knights, Ideas

  Henry Corbin (1998). “The Voyage and the Messenger: Iran and Philosophy”, p.223, North Atlantic Books

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• Building awareness and responsibility is the essence of good coaching.

  John Whitmore

  Responsibility, Coaching, Awareness

  John Whitmore (2010). “Coaching for Performance: GROWing Human Potential and Purpose: The Principles and Practice of Coaching and Leadership”, p.33, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

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• The True Self is infinite. It knows no boundaries. Pure essence. Pure light. Engulfing the mind, the soul, the body, the invisible real, with its radiance.

  Alberto Villoldo

  Real, Light, Self

  FaceBook post by Alberto Villoldo from Jan 17, 2017

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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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• Like a Shakespearean sonnet that captures the very essence of love, or a painting that brings out the beauty of the human form that is far more than just skin deep, Euler's Equation reaches down into the very depths of existence.

  Keith Devlin

  Skins, Depth, Painting

  "Dr. Euler's Fabulous Formula: Cures Many Mathematical Ills". Book by Paul J. Nahin, 2006.

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• In creating a work of art, the psyche or soul of the artist ascends from the earthly realm into the heavenly. There, free of all images, the soul is fed in contemplation by the essences of the highest realm, knowing the permanent noumena of things. Then, satiated with this knowing, it descends again to the earthly realm. And precisely at the boundary between the two worlds, the soul’s spiritual knowledge assumes the shapes of symbolic imagery: and it is these images that make permanent the work of art. Art is thus materialized dream, separated from the ordinary consciousness of waking life.

  Pavel Florensky

  Dream, Spiritual, Art

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• 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

  Laughing, Effort, Despair

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• Dance is active meditation. When we dance, we go beyond thought, beyond mind and beyond our individuality to become one in the divine ecstasy of the union with the cosmic spirit. This is the essence of the trance dance experience.

  Goa Gil

  Dance, Spiritual, Thinking

  "Interview by Chaitu of www.goatrance.free.fr". www.goagil.com.

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• Sashimi is velvet dust, verging on silk, or a bit of both, and the extraordinary alchemy of its gossamer essence allows it to preserve a milky density unknown even by clouds.... my cheeks recalled the effects of its profound caress.

  Muriel Barbery

  Clouds, Dust, Profound

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• 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

  Mind, Suffering, Realizing

  "‘What Is Wrong with Me?’: Deepak Chopra on How to Overcome Negativity". www.huffingtonpost.com. October 15, 2012.

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• The essence of Buddhism is if you can, help others. If not, then at least refrain from hurting others.

  Dalai Lama

  Hurt, Buddhism, Helping Others

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• Jesus didn't wait until we got better to die for us. He died when we were in our most unlovely state. The person who doesn't deserve love actually needs love more, not less. If you know someone unworthy of love, that's great! You now have a chance to emulate Christ, because the essence of His love is unconditional.

  Tony Evans

  Jesus, Love Is, Deserve Love

  Tony Evans (2008). “Theology You Can Count On: Experiencing What the Bible Says About... God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit, Angels, Salvation...”, p.202, Moody Publishers

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• Serving people we don't see eye to eye with is the essence of Christianity. Jesus died for a world with which he didn't see eye to eye. If a bakery doesn't want to sell its products to a gay couple, it's their business. Literally. But leave Jesus out of it.

  Andy Stanley

  Jesus, Couple, Eye

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• You know, I think that allowing somebody, one mere person to believe that he or she is like, the vessel you know, like the font and the essence and the source of all divine, creative, unknowable, eternal mystery is just a smidge too much responsibility to put on one fragile, human psyche. It's like asking somebody to swallow the sun.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Believe, Responsibility, Thinking

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• Integrity is what you do behind closed doors or when you think nobody is watching. Integrity is the true essence of who you are, your beliefs and your values. Reputation is the public perception of who you are. It is how others view your integrity or strong moral principles.

  Erik Qualman

  Strong, Integrity, Thinking

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