Essence Quotes
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In the West, it is the opposite, like you are using these practices [meditation and yoga ] to further your ego by being more productive, being more this, and getting more out of your work and earning more money. In the East, the whole idea is that you are dissolving your essence through these practices.
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I thought Essence had a lot more points. She seemed more active.
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Jesus didn't wait until we got better to die for us. He died when we were in our most unlovely state. The person who doesn't deserve love actually needs love more, not less. If you know someone unworthy of love, that's great! You now have a chance to emulate Christ, because the essence of His love is unconditional.
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Don't fear the unknown. Embrace the opportunity. Failure is not permanent it is the essence of learning.
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Greek dress was in its essence inartistic. Nothing should reveal the body but the body.
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New Orleans is my essence, my soul, my muse...
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The essence of genius is to know what to overlook.
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I would like to do whatever it is that presses the essence from the hour.
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They have, in essence, treated these articles as empty vessels to be filled with some witches' brew of charges.
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History is a great deal closer to poetry than is generally realised: in truth, I think, it is in essence the same.
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Man would be otherwise. That is the essence of the specifically human.
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I think that where I've gotten frustrated during the course of my presidency has never been because I was getting pushed too hard by activists to see the justness of a cause or the essence of an issue.
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The essence of America lies not in the headlined heroes...but in the everyday folks who live and die unknown, yet leave their dreams as legacies
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The old notion that brevity is the essence of wit has succumbed to the modern idea that tedium is the essence of quality.
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Strip away all the assumptions about what competition is supposed to do, all the claims in its behalf that we accept and repeat reflexively. What you have left is the essence of the concept: mutually exclusive goal attainment (MEGA). One person succeeds only if another does not. From this uncluttered perspective, it seems clear right away that something is drastically wrong with such an arrangement. How can we do our best when we are spending our energies trying to make others lose--and fearing that they will make us lose?
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For those who want to understand the issues of the environmental crisis, Encounters with the Archdruid is a superb book. McPhee reveals more nuances of the value revolution that dominates the new age of ecology than most writers could pack into a volume twice as long. I marvel at his capacity to listen intently and extract the essence of a man and his philosophy in the fewest possible words.
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Overcoming negative tendencies and enhancing positive potential are the very essence of the spiritual path.
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Music at its essence is what gives us memories.
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Simplicity is the essence of the great, the true, the beautiful in art.
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Ancient masters of excellence had a subtle essence, and a depth too profound to comprehend.
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All truths are erroneous. This is the very essence of the dialectical process: today's truths become errors tomorrow; there is no final number.
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In golf, humiliations are the essence of the game.
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One cannot inquire into the foundations and nature of mathematics without delving into the question of the operations by which the mathematical activity of the mind is conducted. If one failed to take that into account, then one would be left studying only the language in which mathematics is represented rather than the essence of mathematics.
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Whereas the entire meaning of the Quran must easily be interpreted by the lives of Muslims, Islam's followers abandoned its essence.
