Essence Quotes - Page 26

If someone were to ask me, 'What's the number one thing, in essence, that you left behind?'... it was the teaching of others, so that they could take my work and take it further.

Vidal Sassoon

Teaching, Numbers, Left Behind

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TM® is helping you tap into something that's already inside of you - that's you in essence.

Cameron Diaz

Helping

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Melody is the essence of music.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Melody

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Friedrich Kerst, Henry Edward Krehbiel (1926). “Mozart: The Man and the Artist Revealed in His Own Words”, p.7, Courier Corporation

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Through fear of knowing who we really are we sidestep our own destiny, which leaves us hungry in a famine of our own making...we end up living numb, passionless lives, disconnected from our soul's true purpose. But when you have the courage to shape your life from the essence of who you are, you ignite, becoming truly alive.

Dawna Markova

Destiny, Knowing, Soul

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In my serious work I am striving for the essence of things and for goals which are possibly unobtainable. On the other hand, everything humorous has great attraction for me, and a childish streak leads me into all kinds of frivolous endeavour.

Philippe Halsman

Humorous, Hands, Goal

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Prayer doesn’t work in the way that you think. If you pray for good health and it is genuine, you might be coming into sickness. The essence of good health has to do with a most delicate well-being.

John de Ruiter

Prayer, Thinking, Might

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Your preciousness lies in your essence; it cannot be lost by anything that happens.

Zhuangzi

Lying, Lost, Happens

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For even if the Word in His immeasurable essence united with the nature of man into one person, we do not imagine that He was confined therein. Here is something marvellous: the Son of God descended from heaven in such a way that, without leaving heaven, He willed to be borne in the virgin's womb, to go about the earth, and to hang upon the cross; yet He continuously filled the world even as He had done from the beginning.

John Calvin

Son, Men, Heaven

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It is blessed to eat into the very soul of the Bible until the very essence of the Bible flows from you.

Charles Spurgeon

Blessed, Soul, Flow

Spurgeon, Charles H. (2015). “Charles Spurgeon: An Autobiography”, p.1697, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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The rule of love, I say again, is not an optional extra. It is the very essence of what we [Christians] are about

N. T. Wright

Christian, Extras, Optional

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Nowness is the essence of meditation. Whatever one does, whatever one tries to practice, is trying to see what is here and now. One becomes aware of the present moment through such means as concentrating on the breathing. This is based on developing the knowledge of nowness, for each respiration is unique. It is an expression of now.

Chogyam Trungpa

Mean, Unique, Expression

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Speed is the absolute essence of any form of combat

Jeff Cooper

Speed, Self Defense, Form

Jeff Cooper (2006). “Principles of Personal Defense: Revised Edition”, p.32, Paladin Press

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I can't help but think that at the end of your life, when you look back, there'll be a tone. And that tone will come from the essence of how you live your day to day what you did in that between time because that is really your life.

Richard Linklater

Life, Thinking, Looks

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What we call love is in its essence reverence for life.

Albert Schweitzer

Love, Reverence For Life, Love Life

Albert Schweitzer (1956). “An anthology”

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As far as we can reach, He Who Is, and God, are the special names of His Essence; and of these especially He Who Is, not only because when He spoke to Moses in the mount, and Moses asked what His Name was, this was what He called Himself, bidding him say to the people 'I Am has sent me' (Ex. 3:14), but also because we find that this Name is the more strictly appropriate.

Gregory of Nazianzus

Christian, Names, People

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Christ sits in the body at the right hand of God the Father, but we do not hold that the right hand of the Father is actual place. For how could He that is uncircumscribed have a right hand limited by place? But we understand the right hand of the Father to be the glory and honor of the Godhead in which the Son of God, Who existed as God before the ages, and is of like essence to the Father, and in the end became flesh, has a seat in the body, His flesh sharing in the glory. For He along with His flesh is adored with one adoration by all creation.

John of Damascus

Christian, Father, Son

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Humble patience, tirelessness and persistence in prayer conquer the unconquerable God and incline Him to mercy. According to the Lord's parable, the importunity of the widow inclined a wicked and unjust judge to grant her petition (cf. Lk. 18:1 ff.). The Lord gave this parable for a special purpose ? to teach us not to faint, but to pray patiently. If an unjust judge was persuaded to grant the petition of the widow, how can God fail to incline His ear to our prayers, if we persist in imploring Him since He is the essence of lovingkindness?

Lorenzo Scupoli

Christian, Prayer, Humble

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No one has yet discovered or ever shall discover what God is in His nature and essence... we shall, in time to come, 'know as we are known' (I Cor 13:12). But for the present what reaches us is a scant emanation, as it were a small beam from a great light - which means that any one who 'knew' God or whose 'knowledge' of Him has been attested to in the Bible, has a manifestly more brilliant knowledge than others not equally illuminated. This superiority was reckoned knowledge in the full sense, not because it really was so, but by the contrast of relative strengths.

Gregory of Nazianzus

Christian, Mean, Light

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The substance, the essence, the Spirit is freedom.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Substance, Spirit, Spirituality

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In our description of nature the purpose is not to disclose the real essence of the phenomena but only to track down, so far as it is possible, relations between the manifold aspects of our experience.

Niels Bohr

Nature, Real, Track

Niels Bohr (2011). “Atomic Theory and the Description of Nature: Four Essays with an Introductory Survey”, p.18, Cambridge University Press

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The essence of spirituality is, to be constantly aware of the oneness of all; at the same time to celebrate the uniqueness of the individual.

Jaggi Vasudev

Spiritual, Yoga, Oneness

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If you dissolve your personality, your presence becomes very powerful - this is the essence of spiritual sadhana.

Jaggi Vasudev

Spiritual, Powerful, Yoga

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The essence of Vedanta is that there is but one Being and that every soul is that Being in full, not a part of that Being.

Swami Vivekananda

Soul, Divinity, Vedanta

Swami Vivekananda (1964). “Complete Works”

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The heart of the gospel is redemption, and the essence of redemption is the substitutionary sacrifice of Christ. They who preach this truth preach the gospel in whatever else they may be mistaken; but they who preach not the atonement, whatever else they declare, have missed the soul and substance of the divine message.

Charles Spurgeon

Heart, Sacrifice, Soul

Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 32: Sermons 1877-1937”, p.477, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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The ultimate touchstone of friendship is not improvement, neither of the other nor of the self: the ultimate touchstone is witness, the privilege of having been seen by someone and the equal privilege of being granted the sight of the essence of another, to have walked with them and to have believed in them, and sometimes just to have accompanied them for however brief a span, on a journey impossible to accomplish alone.

David Whyte

Journey, Sight, Self

FaceBook post by David Whyte from Apr 29, 2013

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