Quotes about Essence

Ultimately, leadership is more about 'being' than 'doing.'

The life of the body is the soul; the life of the soul is God.

Life is not a matter of creating a special name for ourselves, but of uncovering the name we have always had.

What is the essence of life? To serve others and to do good.

I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!

you are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Look at the matter in this way. Since we can see that a dog is fitted by nature to do one thing, and a horse to do another, and a nightingale, if you like, to do yet another, it wouldn't be absurd for one to declare overall that each of them is beautiful precisely in so far as it best fulfils its own nature; and since each is different in nature, it would seem to me that each of them is beautiful in a different way. Isn't that so? The student agreed.

Your being with God (or lack of being with God) will trump, eventually, your doing for God every time. We cannot give what we do not possess. We cannot help but give what we do possess.

loving well is the essence of true spirituality.

Most writers are unhappy with film adaptations of their work, and rightly so. 'Field of Dreams,' however, caught the spirit and essence of 'Shoeless Joe' while making the necessary changes to make the work more visual.

Our actual ultimate root is in our humanity, not in our personal genealogy.

What I believe about God is the most important thing about me.