Essence Quotes
I think love can come fairly easily and grow - but really liking the core essence of someone is a much harder thing to bottle. If you have both, you're in pretty good shape.
Learning to enjoy being single involves the ability to experience everything through your own essence, instead of living vicariously through a spouse or partner.
Casting is very instinctual. I really like to meet people. To me, it's about their essence more than their audition.
The art of acting presupposes three phases: understanding a part, intuiting a part, and contemplating the essence of a part.
The Federal Government was never, in its essence, anything but an anti-slavery government.
You reincarnate forever because you exist forever. You can't die. You can't be born, your essence that is. You are on a big wheel.
The essence of all reincarnation is to have the best lifetime now that you've ever had, no matter what's going on.
You're not a person. We take that form. We're an essence. We're an awareness of God's. We're made up of countless, countless realities.
Zen was a reaction. Just as Buddha came into the world and spoke against the fall of Vedanta, so Buddhism lost its essence and became ritual. Zen was a reaction to that.
Each of the ten thousand states of mind presents you with a different view of essence and experience.
Bodhidharma who brought Zen from India to the Orient, taught a very pure Zen - in that it was pure Zen. He wanted to show that the way still existed and wanted to get back to its essence.
Now when I speak about Zen, I have a problem, in the sense that the Zen of today has lost the essence, in my estimation, of what I call "old Zen."
If you are psychic you will become much more aware of the beauty of life. If you are psychic, when you look at a rose, you will see and feel the essence of the rose.
The essence of the teachings is to lose self importance and to care more for the welfare of others and the magical world around us, than we do for ourselves and our own self images.
Somewhere there is an essence. It is not a physical somewhere. There is no sense of world, of time and space. That is nirvana.
The essence of all practice is to be cool. Life is not worth getting excited about because whatever you perceive is an illusion.
What I term Zen, old Zen, the original face of Zen, new Zen, pure Zen, or Tantric Zen is - Zen in its essence.
The essence of Taoism is really expressed by these few words. Taoism is the way of the child, the way of the fool, the way of someone who doesn't need to be noticed.
The ultimate intelligence of all things is your essence. Your mind is the universe. Your body is all things.
Perception is, in essence, who we are. We are what we perceive. What we perceive defines who we are.
Your mind is your life. It's your essence and your substance. It's the part of you that has always been and will always be. Its formations change constantly, which is what makes you always new.
There was a time when you came forth from infinity, your essence that is. You've always existed, and you'll always exist. But there are different states of mind in the universe.
All of the universes are but phantoms, mirages, and while they have their own essence, their own pantomime - they pass forgotten.
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
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.
The enlightened teacher is someone who has become absorbed in eternity. While they may have a body like others, the essence of their being is light.
If we examine the essence of existence, we'll find that the essence is love. There really is nothing that isn't love.
Love teaches us how to penetrate the inner worlds, to clean the glass of existence and see reality in its perfect essence.
To make the essence of man visible in the exposure is the highest art of photography.
The essence of the modern state is the union of the universal with the full freedom of the particular, and with the welfare of individuals.
Short stories and some short novels are close to poetry--with the fewest words they capture the essence of a situation, of a human being. It's like trying to pin down the eternal moment.
Sacrifice is the very essence of religion; ... Without sacrifice there is no true worship of God.
Simple honesty is so remarkable a quality. It is of the very essence of Integrity.
The essence of evangelism is to passionately show people how you can make history together.
Hinduism is synonymous with humanism. That is its essence and its great liberating quality.
If we reverse the outer shell and the essence--in other words, consider the outer shell the essence and the essence only the shell--our lives might be a whole lot easier to understand.
Exerting yourself to the limit over and over again, that is the essence of running. Running is painful, but the pain doesn't leave me, I can take care of it. That agrees with my mentality.
This is part of the essence of motherhood, watching your kid grow into her own person and not being able to do anything about it. Otherwise children would be nothing more than pets.
Every man starts with all there is. Everything is here-the essence and substance of all there is.
Zeal is not of necessity religion, neither is it always of the same essence with poetry or patriotism.
Every natural form is latent within us, originates in the soul whose essence is eternity, whose essence we cannot know but which most often intimates itself to us as the power to love and create.
The essence of God's action in wrath is to give people what they choose, in all its implications.