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• Love is the key. If we start to express the spring of love within that is our true essence, our Truth, our spark of Divinity... and allow it to flow more... then all is revealed. Love becomes our guide in life, our connection with All, and our path back to Source.

  Peter Shepherd

  Spring, Love Is, Keys

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• At its core, meditation is about touching the spiritual essence that exists within us all.
  Our spiritual essence is not something that we create through meditation it's already there,
  deep within, behind all the barriers, patiently waiting for us to recognize it.

  Aaron Hoopes

  Spiritual, Meditation, Waiting

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• Offense is the essence of air power.

  Henry H. Arnold

  Military, Air, Aviation

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• The search for some ultimate significance in the universe, and in our little transient role in it, the compulsion to learn, to know, to find the truth, to answer questions and solve problems - these constitute the essence of an aware existence, the central core of intelligent life.

  Dale Rex Coman

  Life, Intelligent, Roles

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• The essence of influence is pull. It's an attraction. Great influencers attract people, to themselves, and to their ideas.

  Bob Burg

  Ideas, People, Influence

  FaceBook post by Bob Burg from Apr 11, 2014

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• Looking for the essence of beauty is comprehending and appreciating that quality in an object which is fairer and better than only what our eyes see or our ears hear, whether that be a patch of blue in an overcast sky, the fleeting laughter from a voice we love, or something as unexpected as the rainbow colors in a spot of oil on the driveway.

  Luci Swindoll

  Beauty, Laughter, Eye

  Luci Swindoll (1989). “You Bring the Confetti”, W Publishing Group

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• God wanted man to know him somehow through his creatures, and since no creature could fittingly reflect the infinite perfection of the Creator, he multiplied his creatures and gave a certain goodness and perfection to each of them so that from them we could judge the goodness and perfection of the Creator, who embraces infinite perfection in the perfection of his one and utterly simple essence.

  Robert Bellarmine

  Animal, Simple, Men

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• Simplicity in its essence demands neither a vow of poverty nor a life of rural homesteading. As an ethic of self-conscious material moderation, it can be practiced in cities and suburbs, townhouses and condominiums. It requires neither a log cabin nor a hairshirt but a deliberate ordering of priorities so as to distinguish between the necessary and superfluous, useful and wasteful, beautiful and vulgar.

  David Shi

  Beautiful, Self, Cities

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• The essence of Buddhism is simply that the mind is forever. We are always experiencing different states of mind in one form or another, in one body or another, in one life or another, forever.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Forever, Mind

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• When you die you forget. Death is a sleep, a forgetting. You forget about your previous lifetime. The essence of your being is the same. But at death, the personality dissolves

  Frederick Lenz

  Death, Sleep, Personality

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• The essence of your being reincarnates.

  Frederick Lenz

  Rebirth

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• The essence of your awareness field definitely goes on after death. It goes through death, it goes into non-physical states for a time, and then eventually is pulled back and it reincarnates.

  Frederick Lenz

  Goes On, Fields, Awareness

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• Congenial labor is essence of happiness.

  A. C. Benson

  Work, Labor

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• Any work that is not rooted in myth and poetry or that does not partake of the depth and essence of the universe is merely a ghost.

  Hans Arp

  Depth, Doe, Ghost

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• Art is the need to create; but in its essence, immense and universal, it is impatient of working with lame or tied hands, and of making cripples and monsters, such as all pictures and statues are. Nothing less than the creation of man and nature is its end.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Men, Hands

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1979). “Emerson's Literary Criticism”, p.22, U of Nebraska Press

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• When our individual interests and prospects do not seem worth living for, we are in desperate need for something apart from us to live for. All forms of dedication, devotion, loyalty and self-surrender are in essence a desperate clinging to something which might give worth and meaning to our futile, spoiled lives.

  Eric Hoffer

  Loyalty, Dedication, Self

  Eric Hoffer (1951). “The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements”, New York : Harper

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• The essence of all beauty, I call love, The attribute, the evidence, and end, The consummation to the inward sense Of beauty apprehended from without, I still call love.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Beauty, Love Is, Inward

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)”, p.308, Delphi Classics

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• Things are in their essence what we choose to make them. A thing is, according to the mode in which one looks at it.

  Oscar Wilde

  Events, Looks

  Oscar Wilde (1973). “De Profundis and Other Writings”, p.264, Penguin UK

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• Hail, holy light! offspring of heaven firstborn! Or of th' eternal co-eternal beam, May I express thee unblam'd? since God is light And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from eternity, dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate!

  John Milton

  Light, Heaven, May

  John Milton, Sarah Siddons (1822). “The Story of Our First Parents: Selected from Milton's Paradise Lost: for the Use of Young Persons”, p.43

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• Contradiction is the essence of the universe.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Contradiction, Universe

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• The outfit soon took on color, dash and a unique flavor which is the essence of that elusive and deathless thing called soldiering.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Unique, Color, Flavor

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• The essence of analysis is surprise. When people are themselves surprised by what they say, that's when they are really making some progress.

  Sigmund Freud

  People, Understanding, Progress

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• I wanted to paint nothing. I was looking for something that was the essence of nothing, and the soup can was it.

  Andy Warhol

  Soup, Paint, Wanted

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• And when you talk about realization, accomplishment for that matter enlightenment is that when you realize the fundamental essence of your mind.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Accomplishment, Mind, Enlightenment

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• The strength of Olympism comes to it from that which is simply human, hence worldwide is its essence.

  Pierre de Coubertin

  Strength, Humans, Olympism

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