Essence Quotes

On the deepest level, what I know for sure is that who I am, essentially, is consciousness and consciousness is timeless and it transcends the body; it transcends the psychological "me," the egoic self. Everybody can know themselves as consciousness.

In our world," said Eustace, "a star is a huge ball of flaming gas." Even in your world, my son, that is not what a star is, but only what it is made of.

In our fine arts, not imitation, but creation is the aim... The details, the prose of nature, he should omit, and give us only the spirit and splendour.

Peace is our natural state of being.

Love is nothing other than finding the truth.

Though leaves are many, the root is one.

The reality of the building does not consist in the roof and walls, but in the space within to be lived in.

Like" and "like" and "like"--but what is the thing that lies beneath the semblance of the thing?

Where love is absent there can be no woman.

Simplicity is the essence of universality.

Human being's essential nature is perfect and faultless.

Concentrate on the Essence, concentrate on the Light.

Before a leaf-bud has burst, its whole life acts; in the full-blown flower there is no more; in the leafless root there is no less.

In building a statue, a sculptor doesn't keep adding clay to his subject. Actually, he keeps chiseling away at the nonessentials until the truth of his creation is revealed without obstruction.

Nature, even when she is scant and thin outwardly, satisfies us still by the assurance of a certain generosity at the roots.

You are never more essentially, more deeply, yourself than when you are still.

It was as if someone had taken a tiny bead of pure life and decking it as lightly as possible with down and feathers, had set it dancing and zigzagging to show us the true nature of life.

If a man loves a woman for her beauty, does he love her? No; for the smallpox, which destroys her beauty without killing her, causes his love to cease. And if any one loves me for my judgment or my memory, does he really love me? No; for I can lose these qualities without ceasing to be.

If I paint a wild horse, you might not see the horse... but surely you will see the wildness!

It is not always needful for truth to take a definite shape; it is enough if it hovers about us like a spirit and produces harmony; if it is wafted through the air like the sound of a bell, grave and kindly.

You are not 'in the now;' you are the now. That is your essential identity-the only thing that never changes. Life is always now. Now is consciousness. And consciousness is who you are. That's the equation.

I hope martial artists are more interested in the root of martial arts and not the different decorative branches, flowers or leaves. It is futile to argue as to which leaf, which design of branches, or which attractive flower you like; when you understand the root, you understand all its blossoming.

Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.

Leave that which is not,but appears to be.Seek that which is,but is not apparent.

The most important healing - realizing who you are. The healing on the outer level is fine, but it's not the essence of healing.

Look to the essence of a thing, whether it be a point of doctrine, of practice, or of interpretation.

Everything you see has its roots in the unseen world. The forms may change, yet the essence remains the same. Every wonderful sight will vanish, every sweet word will fade, But do not be disheartened, The source they come from is eternal, growing, Branching out, giving new life and new joy. Why do you weep? The source is within you And this whole world is springing up from it.

When great loss happens - deaths close to you or your own approaching death - this is an opportunity for stepping completely out of identification with form and realizing the essence of who you are, or that the essence of anyone who is suffering or dying is beyond death.

Nature has neither kernel Nor shell

Blood is a very special juice.

It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life.

Lamps are different, but light is the same.

It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem.

Youth and age touch only the surface of our lives.

What is the heart? It is not human and it is not imaginary. I call it you.

The branch might seem like the fruit's origin:In fact, the branch exist because of the fruit.

The wave is the same thing as the water, the effect is the cause in another form

You do not explain the tree by telling of the water it has drunk, the minerals it has absorbed, and the sunlight that strengthened it.

We must heap up a great pile of doing, for a small diameter of being.

Whether you love God or you love a human being, if you love enough you will come into the presence of Love itself.

What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.

You, of course, are a rose-- But were always a rose.

A man's rootage is more important than his leafage.

Whatever happens, whatever you experience, feel, think, do - it's always now. It's all there is. And if you continuously miss the now - resist it, dislike it, try to get away from it, reduce it to a means to an end, then you miss the essence of your life, and you are stuck in a dream world of images, concepts, labels, interpretations, judgments - the conditioned content of your mind that you take to be yourself.

The essence of all beauty, I call love.

The essence of thought, as the essence of life, is growth.

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

What is light, if Sylvia be not seen? What is joy if Sylvia be not by?

Something inside you emerges....an innate, indwelling peace, stillness, aliveness. It is the unconditioned, who you are in your essence. It is what you had been looking for in the love object. It is yourself.

Everything written is as good as it is dramatic. It need not declare itself in form, but it is drama or nothing.

I hope martial artists are more interested in the root of martial arts and not the different decorative branches, flowers or leaves.

It is neither the best nor the worst things in a book that defy translation.

You think the shadow is the substance.

We hammer wood for a house, but it is the inner space that makes it liveable.

You are the love and joy beneath the pain.

A rose will smell as sweet by any other name, but it must be the rose of liberty that I want and not the artificial product.

In you, as in each human being, there is a dimension of consciousness far deeper than thought. It is the very essence of who you are. We may call it presence, awareness, the unconditioned consciousness.

The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.

What: is the jay more precious than the lark because his feathers are more beautiful?

The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deemFor that sweet odour which doth in it live.