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• What is beautiful? Whatever is perceived joyfully is beautiful. Bliss is the essence of beauty.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Beauty, Beautiful, Bliss

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• In its essence the Gospel is a call to make the experiment of comradeship, the experiment of fellowship, the experiment of trusting the heart of things, throwing self-care to the winds, in the sure and certain faith that you will not be deserted, forsaken nor betrayed, and that your ultimate interests are perfectly secure in the hands of the Great Companion. This insight is the center, the kernel, the growing point of the Christian religion, which, when we have it, all else is secure, and when we have it not, all else is precarious.

  L. P. Jacks

  Christian, Heart, Wind

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• To me, the essence of keeping the soul nourished is obedience to one's conscience. I don't think that the soul can be nourished unless people have a strong sense of conscience that they have educated and developed and soaked in the universal and timeless principles of integrity and service. This way, the individual's soul becomes part of the universal soul of service, contribution, and making a difference.

  Stephen Covey

  Strong, Integrity, Character

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• To avoid the hard necessity of either obeying or rejecting the plain instructions of our Lord in the New Testament we take refuge in a liberal interpretation of them. We evangelicals also know how to avoid the sharp point of obedience by means of fine and intricate explanations. These are tailor-made for the flesh. They excuse disobedience, comfort carnality and make the words of Christ of none effect. And the essence of it all is that Christ simply could not have meant what He said. His teachings are accepted even theoretically only after they have been weakened by interpretation.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Teaching, Mean, Flesh

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• But in the years since the neoliberal project really has been stripped down to what was always its essence: not an economic project at all, but a political project, designed to devastate the imagination, and willing - with it's cumbersome securitization and insane military projects - to destroy the capitalist order itself if that's what it took to make it seem inevitable.

  David Graeber

  Military, Order, Years

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• The cable news channels have cleverly seized on the creed of objectivity and redefined it in populist terms. They attack news based on verifiable fact for its liberal bias, for, in essence, failing to be objective, and promise a return to genuine objectivity.

  Chris Hedges

  Objectivity, Promise, News

  Chris Hedges (2013). “The World As It Is: Dispatches on the Myth of Human Progress”, p.76, Nation Books

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• All of us have monarchs and sages for kinsmen; nay, angels and archangels for cousins; since in antediluvian days, the sons of God did verily wed with our mothers, the irresistible daughters of Eve. Thus all generations are blended: and heaven and earth of one kin: the hierarchies of seraphs in the uttermost skies; the thrones and principalities in the zodiac; the shades that roam throughout space; the nations and families, flocks and folds of the earth; one and all, brothers in essence-oh, be we then brothers indeed! All things form but one whole.

  Herman Melville

  Daughter, Mother, Cousin

  Herman Melville (2012). “Mardi: And A Voyage Thither (Annotated Complete Edition)”, p.21, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The exercises of practical life are formative activities, a work of adaptation to the environment. Such adaptation to the environment and efficient functioning therein is the very essence of a useful education.

  Maria Montessori

  Exercise, Environment, Adaptation

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• Belief in non-violence is based on the assumption that human nature in the essence is one and therefore unfailingly responds to the advances of love.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Violence, Belief, Assumption

  Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Merton (2007). “Gandhi on Non-Violence”, p.38, New Directions Publishing

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• You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.

  Moliere

  People, Want, Austerity

  Jean-Baptiste Moliere (2015). “Tartuffe and Other Plays”, p.44, Penguin

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• The essence of life will never be captured by even the greatest of formulas.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Life, Formulas, Captured

  Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn (1973). “The First Circle”

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• The essence of friendship is entireness, a total magnanimity and trust.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Trust, Magnanimity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.70, 谷月社

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• It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive. Why should it exaggerate? There is that which should be destroyed and that which should be simply illuminated and studied. How great is the force of benevolent and searching examination! We must not resort to the flame where only light is required.

  Victor Hugo

  Light, Exaggeration Is, Flames

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• Symmetry is ennui, and ennui is the very essence of grief and melancholy. Despair yawns.

  Victor Hugo

  Grief, Order, Despair

  Victor Hugo, Charles Edwin Wilbour (1862). “Cosette”, p.84

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• Adventure is the essence of life.

  Dick Rutan

  Adventure, Essence Of Life

  "U.S. balloonists forced down shortly after launch". www.cnn.com. January 9, 1998.

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• The essence of forgiveness is absorbing pain instead of giving it.

  Timothy Keller

  Pain, Giving, Absorbing

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• Are we not Spirits, that are shaped into a body, into an Appearance; and that fade away again into air and Invisibility? Oh, Heaven, it is mysterious, it is awful to consider that we not only carry a future Ghost within us; but are, in very deed, Ghosts! These Limbs, whence had we them; this stormy Force; this life-blood with its burning Passion? They are dust and shadow; a Shadow-system gathered round our Me; wherein, through some moments or years, the Divine Essence is to be revealed in the Flesh.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Passion, Years, Air

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• Painting has always been a means of self-expression for me. Therefore, I paint because I have to and need to, not necessarily because I want to. Subconsciously or not, the figures I paint are a reflection of myself and whatever mood I am in at the time, so every painting is in essence a self-portrait.

  Lori Earley

  Mean, Reflection, Self

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• I've realized that the world is, in essence, full of banana peels - loaded with things that may unwittingly trip an internal wire in my mind, opening a floodgate of fears without warning.

  Amanda Lindhout

  Mind, Wire, Warning

  Amanda Lindhout, Sara Corbett (2013). “A House in the Sky: A Memoir”, p.365, Simon and Schuster

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• Submission does not mean being weak or passive. It leads to neither fatalism nor capitulation. Just the opposite. True power resides in submission. A power that comes from within. Those who submit to the divine essence of life will live in unperturbed tranquility and peace even when the whole wide world goes through turbulence after turbulence.

  Elif Safak

  Mean, Opposites, True Power

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• As each individual is electrically alive and dynamic, so yoga is a living, dynamic force in life. In order to savor its essence, one needs a religiously attentive dynamic practice done with awareness and absorption.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Yoga, Order, Practice

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• No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Inspirational, Beloved Person, Mans Search For Meaning

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.87, Beacon Press

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• Minimalism is the pursuit of the essence of things, not the appearance.

  Claudio Silvestrin

  Appearance, Pursuit, Minimalism

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• We were brought up in the school that teaches: You do what the script tells you. Deliver the goods without comment. Live it-do it-or shut up. After all, the writer is what's important. If the script is good and you don't get in its way, it will come off okay. I never discussed a script with Spence [Spencer Tracy]; we just did it. The same with Hank [Henry Fonda] in On Golden Pond. Naturally and unconsciously we joined into what I call a musical necessity-the chemistry that brings out the essence of the characters and the work.

  Katharine Hepburn

  School, Character, Musical

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• It was in the recognition that there is in each man a final essence, that is to say an immortal soul which only God can judge, that a limit was set upon the dominion of men over men.

  Walter Lippmann

  Men, Judging, Soul

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