Quotes about Essence

Less is only more where more is no good.

Live in the wisdom of accepted tenderness. Tenderness awakens within the security of knowing we are thoroughly and sincerely liked by someone... Scripture suggests that the essence of the divine nature is compassion and that the heart of God is defined by tenderness.

To live in the world without belonging to the world summarizes the essence of the spiritual life. The spiritual life keeps us aware that our true house is not the house of fear, in which the powers of hatred and violence rule, but the house of love, where God resides.

Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only. Money is not required to buy one necessary of the soul.

Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.

Being is the great explainer.

Nor is it every apple I desire,      Nor that which pleases every palate best; 'T is not the lasting Deuxan I require,      Nor yet the red-cheeked Greening I request, Nor that which first beshrewed the name of wife, Nor that whose beauty caused the golden strife: No, no! bring me an apple from the tree of life.

Because no man can ever feel his own identity aright except his eyes be closed; as if darkness were indeed the proper element of our essences, though light be more congenial to our clayey part.

Oh, thou clear spirit, of thy fire thou madest me, and like a true child of fire, I breathe it back to thee.

Real life is the life that's in you, not your circumstances, like where you live or what job you have or who you're in relationship with.

Life is more than breath and a heartbeat; meaning and purpose are the life of life.

Goodness consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are. To be is the great thing.