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• It is felt that a disciplined mind leads to happiness and an undisciplined mind leads to suffering, and in fact it is said that bringing about discipline within one's mind is the essence of the Buddha's teaching.

  Dalai Lama

  Teaching, Discipline, Mind

  Dalai Lama (2009). “The Art of Happiness, 10th Anniversary Edition: A Handbook for Living”, p.48, Penguin

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• Everything you see has its roots in the unseen world. The forms may change, yet the essence remains the same.

  Rumi

  Roots, Unseen, World

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• We have to distinguish between a man as he is in essence, and as he is in ego or personality. In essence, every person is perfect, fearless, and in a loving unity with the entire cosmos; there is no conflict within the person between head, heart, and stomach or between the person and others. Then something happens: the ego begins to develop, karma accumulates, there is a transition from objectivity to subjectivity; man falls from essence into personality.

  Oscar Ichazo

  Karma, Fall, Heart

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• In essence, we are reconciled to reconcile.

  Matt Chandler

  Reconcile

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• In the absence of truth there is confusion, the essence of truth.

  Reggie Watts

  Confusion, Absence

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• Consider the idea of a God who is essentially sadness and longing, yearning to reveal himself, to know himself through a being who knows him, thereby depending on that being who is still himself - yet who in this sense creates Him. Here we have a vision which has never been professed outside of a few errant knights of mysticism. To profess this essential bipolarity of the divine essence is not to confuse creator and created, creature and creation. It is to experience the irrevocable solidarity between the Fravarti and its Soul, in the battle they undertake for each other`s sake.

  Henry Corbin

  Sadness, Knights, Ideas

  Henry Corbin (1998). “The Voyage and the Messenger: Iran and Philosophy”, p.223, North Atlantic Books

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• Cruel persecutions and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essence of religion, namely, its absolute claims.

  Morris Raphael Cohen

  Religion, Transcendentalism, Intolerance

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• Movement was the essence of Manhattan. It had always been so, and now its sense of flow, energy, openness, elasticity as Charles Dickens had called it, was headier than ever. Half the city’s skill and aspirations seemed to go into the propagation of motion.

  Jan Morris

  Skills, Cities, Flow

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• What is supposed to be the very essence of Judaism - which is the notion that it is by study that you make yourself a holy people - is nowhere present in Hebrew tradition before the end of the first or the beginning of the second century of the Common Era.

  Harold Bloom

  People, Eras, Firsts

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• The very essence of martial arts is the thirst for knowledge and the truth about ourselves.

  Frank Shamrock

  Art, Thirst, Martial Arts

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• Free yourself from the psychological structure of society, which is to free yourself from the essence of conflict.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, Awakening, Free Yourself

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• An elementary particle is not an independently existing, unanalyzable entity. It is, in essence, a set of relationships that reaches outward to other things.

  Henry Stapp

  Vegetarian, Entity, Reach Out

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• Karate cannot be adequately learned in a short space of time. Like a torpid bull, regardless of how slowly it moves, it will eventually cover a thousand miles. So too, for one who resolves to study Karate diligently two or three hours every day. After three or four years of unremitting effort one's body will undergo a great transformation revealing the very essence of Karate.

  Anko Itosu

  Art, Moving, Years

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• And whenever you feel that essence in another, you also feel it in yourself.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Animal, Be Kind, Feels

  Eckhart Tolle (2013). “Guardians of Being: Spiritual Teachings from Our Dogs and Cats”, p.102, New World Library

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• Congregational life wherein each member has his opportunity to contribute to the life of the whole body, those gifts with which the Spirit endows him, is as much of the essence of the Church as are ministry and sacraments.

  Lesslie Newbigin

  Christian, Opportunity, Church

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• Nowhere in politics is there such a mismatch between public and private realm as in transport. Everyone on the M6 last weekend would have agreed with Transport Minister Alasdair Darling's reported hatred of cars. They too wanted drivers off the roads and on to public transport. Go to it, Mr Darling, they cried in unison, get rid of all those cars. Except, of course, their own. Other people's cars are traffic. My car is the outward essence of my being. It is my hat, stick and cane. It embodies my freedom as a citizen and my right as a democrat. My car is my soul in flight.

  Simon Jenkins

  Weekend, America, People

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• To Kiss : An attempt to absorb the essence of the other person.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Kissing, Dating, Romance

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• The essence of our Faith consists simply in this freedom of the Ishta.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Faith

  Swami Vivekananda, Vivekananda Kendra (2009). “Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation”, p.103, Vivekananda Kendra

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• Some people giving orders and others obeying them: this is the essence of servitude. Of course, as Hospers smugly observes, "one can at least change jobs," but you can't avoid having a job - just as under statism one can at least change nationalities but you can't avoid subjection to one nation-state or another. But freedom means more than the right to change masters.

  Bob Black

  Jobs, Mean, Order

  "The Libertarian as Conservative". Essay by Bob Black, www.inspiracy.com. 1984.

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• Science, incidentally, not only ignores the question of indwelling 'essences' by looking instead at measurable relationships, but science also does not agree that knowledge is obtained through Rothbard's Medieval 'investigation by a reason,' i.e., by inventing definitions and then deducing what your definitions implicitly assumed.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Doe, Definitions, Libertarian

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• Learn to see it in thyself and thou wilt understand the infinite essence, hidden in all illusory forms. Understand that the world which thou knowest is only one of the aspects of the infinite world, and things and phenomena are merely hierolgyphics of deeper ideas.

  P.D. Ouspensky

  Ideas, World, Infinite

  P. D. Ouspensky (1913). “The Symbolism of the Tarot: Philosophy of Occultism in Pictures and Numbers”, p.28, Courier Corporation

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• Losing innocence. Remembering Heaven. That was the essence of Hell

  John Jakes

  Heaven, Innocence, Losing

  John Jakes (2013). “The North and South Trilogy: North and South, Love and War, and Heaven and Hell”, p.3369, Open Road Media

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  You will pass through storms and heavy rains, and at times you will suffer defeat. The essence of the creative life, however, is not to give up in the face of defeat but to follow the rainbow that exists within your heart.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Giving Up, Rain, Heart

  Daisaku Ikeda (1975*). “The tide toward the 21st century: addresses”

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• Look, and it can't be seen.
  Listen, and it can't be heard.
  Reach, and it can't be grasped.
  
  Above, it isn't bright.
  Below, it isn't dark.
  Seamless, unnamable,
  it returns to the realm of nothing.
  Form that includes all forms,
  image without an image,
  subtle, beyond all conception.
  
  Approach it and there is no beginning;
  follow it and there is no end.
  You can't know it, but you can be it,
  at ease in your own life.
  Just realize where you come from:
  this is the essence of wisdom.

  Laozi

  Life, Dark, Looks

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• Whenever learners or those beyond learning awaken the mind, for the first time they plant one buddha-nature. Working with the four elements and five clusters, if they practice sincerely they attain enlightenment. Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment. This is because the four elements and five clusters and plants, trees, fences and walls are fellow students; because they are of the same essence, because they are the same mind and the same life, because they are the same body and the same mechanism.

  Dogen

  Life, Wall, Practice

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