536 Quotes About Essence

Freedom is something that should not be washed away in time leaving the essence alone in time.

Forms are vehicles and instruments, and vehicles and instruments cannot be called good or bad without context.

If you are open to receiving the essential nature of life, its intelligence will flow through you like a great river.

You don't have to be strong, because the strength is in you; it's in your DNA, in your soul and your essence.

When you take your stand along the maker's path, you must remain utterly still. You must think like a patch of sand. Hide beneath your cloak and become a little dune in your very essence.

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.

Love deeply with all your heart for you are Love.

In Greek mythology, the goddess Iris sped messages to the gods on the rainbow's arc. Her flower bears no perfume, but steam distillation of the root, or rhizome, yields orris, a precious essence that smells of candle wax, but its impression in perfume is powdery, silvery green, violet-like- a prize of the perfumer's palette. How I wish I could summon the goddess to carry my message to those I love. -DB

The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao.