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• The essence of Christianity is the appeal to the life of Christ as a revelation of the nature of God and of God's agency in the world. The record is fragmentary, inconsistent, and uncertain. . . . But there can be no doubt as to what elements in the record have evoked a response from all that is best in human nature. The Mother, the Child, and the bare manger: the lowly man, homeless and self-forgetful, with his message of peace, love, and sympathy: the suffering, the agony, the tender words as life ebbed, the final despair: and the whole with the authority of supreme victory.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Life, Mother, Peace

  1938 Adventures of Ideas.

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• Let the seeking man reach a place where life and lips join to say continually, "Be thou exalted," and a thousand minor problems will be solved at once.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Life, Christian, Men

  "The Pursuit of God". Book by Aiden Wilson Tozer, 1957.

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• The computer revolution is a revolution in the way we think and in the way we express what we think. The essence of this change is the emergence of what might best be called procedural epistemology-the study of the structure of knowledge from an imperative point of view, as opposed to the more declarative point of view taken by classical mathematical subjects.

  Hal Abelson

  Taken, Learning, Thinking

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• The hardest part of the software task is arriving at a complete and consistent specification, and much of the essence of building a program is in fact the debugging of the specification.

  Fred Brooks

  Learning, Arriving, Tasks

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• When the healthy nature of man acts as a whole, when he feels himself to be in the world as in a great, beautiful, noble, and valued whole, when harmonious ease affords him a pure and free delight, then the universe, if it could experience itself, would exult, as having attained its goal, and admire the climax of its own becoming and essence.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Beautiful, Men, Goal

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• Reality cannot be found except in One single source, because of the interconnection of all things with one another. I maintain also that substances, whether material or immaterial, cannot be conceived in their bare essence without any activity, activity being of the essence of substance in general.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Reality, Words Of Wisdom, Substance

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• People who turn to philosophy expecting to harvest a crop of formulas of wisdom or understanding do not understand-philosophy has such things, but they are merely incidental, not the essence of the matter. Philosophy is about subtilizing and tuning up the coherence and acuity of one's seeing, it is about opening new dimensions for insight, learning to think about what one is doing when one thinks instead of just blundering through the processes of putting thoughts together.

  Kenny Smith

  Wisdom, Philosophy, Thinking

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• Learn to get in touch with the innermost essence of your being. This true essence is beyond the ego. It is fearless; it is free; it is immune to criticism; it does not fear any challenge. It is beneath no one, superior to no one, and full of magic, mystery, and enchantment.

  Deepak Chopra

  Ego, Fearless, Challenges

  Deepak Chopra (2010). “The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams”, p.18, Amber-Allen Publishing

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• Simplicity is not about making something without ornament, but rather about making something very complex, then slicing elements away, until you reveal the very essence.

  Christoph Niemann

  Simplicity, Design, Ornaments

  "The Story of My App" by Christoph Niemann, www.newyorker.com. March 18, 2013.

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• Once there is a certain degree of Presence, of still and alert attention in human beings' perceptions, they can sense the divine life essence, the one indwelling consciousness or spirit in every creature, every life-form, recognize it as one with their own essence and so love it as themselves. Until this happens, however, most humans see only the outer forms, unaware of the inner essence, just as they are unaware of their own essence and identify only with their own physical and psychological form.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Love, Perception, Degrees

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• Love is not a quality of 'God'- is it God's very Essence. It is the ALL-encompassing Reality of the Never-Ending Present. It is the Core of Your Existence.

  David Hawkins

  Love, Reality, Quality

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• The universe is one of continual creation, so therefore we too are continually creating. The form of our creativity is not as important the loving essence within a given form, because that love is the foundation of our creative expression itself, eternal and indestructible.

  Joseph Curiale

  Love, Creativity, Creating

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• The time has come to turn your heart into a temple of fire. Your essence is gold hidden in dust. To reveal its splendor you need to burn in the fire of love.

  Rumi

  Love, Heart, Fire

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• No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being until he loves him. By his love he is enabled to see the essential traits and features in the beloved person; and even more, he sees that which is potential in him, which is not yet actualized. Furthermore, by his love, the loving person enables the beloved person to actualize these potentialities. By making him aware of what he can be and what he should become, he makes these potentialities come true.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Love, Success, Essentials

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• To love each other's essence and to be one-what could be more divine!

  Robert Scheid

  Love, Divinity, Divine

  Robert Scheid (1980). “Beyond the Love Game”

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• Real holiness has love for its essence, humility for its clothing, the good of others as its employment, and the honor of God as its end.

  Nathanael Emmons

  Love, Real, Humility

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• These various forms appear different in shape and size, yet they are of a single essence. . . . The Sixth Patriarch called it "essence of Mind". . . Here the Third Patriarch calls it "timeless Self-essence." Bankei called it "unborn Buddha-mind." They all refer to the same thing: Buddha-nature, true self. This essence is not born and can never die. It exists eternally. Some call it energy; others call it spirit. But what is it? No one knows. Any concept we have of what it is can only be an analogy. . . .

  Dennis Merzel

  Self, Mind, Size

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• The idea that 'preaching the Gospel' has nothing to do with sex and that 'preaching about sex' has nothing to do with the Gospel betrays layers and layers of seriously misguided thinking. When we divorce God's love from sexual love, as Pope Benedict says, 'the essence of Christianity' becomes 'decisively cut off from the complex fabric of human life.'

  Christopher West

  Sex, Divorce, Cutting

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• Wherever applause breaks out in the liturgy because of some human achievement, it is a sure sign that the essence of liturgy has totally disappeared and been replaced by a kind of religious entertainment. Such attraction fades quickly - it cannot compete in the market of leisure pursuits, incorporating as it increasingly does various forms of religious titillation.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Religious, Achievement, Catholic

  "The Spirit of the Liturgy". Book by Pope Benedict XVI, 2000.

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• Some third person decides your fate: this is the whole essence of bureaucracy.

  Alexandra Kollontai

  Fate, Third Person, Bureaucracy

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• Difference is of the essence of humanity.

  John Hume

  Differences, Diversity, Humanity

  "Ireland's Champion of Civil Rights". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 8, 2002.

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• She had always felt that the essence of human experience lay not primarily in the peak experiences, the wedding days and triumphs which stood out in the memory like dates circled in red on old calendars, but, rather, in the unself-conscious flow of little things - the weekend afternoon with each member of the family engaged in his or her own pursuit, their crossings and connections casual, dialogues imminently forgettable, but the sum of such hours creating a synergy which was important and eternal.

  Dan Simmons

  Time, Memories, Weekend

  "Hyperion". Book by Dan Simmons, 1989.

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• At it's essence, art is an alchemical process. Alchemy is a process of transformation.

  Julia Cameron

  Wise, Art, Transformation

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• Each of us was created to rule, govern, control, master, manage, and lead our environments. You are in essence a leader, no matter who you are.

  Myles Munroe

  Leadership, Matter, Environment

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• Having a good time together is the essence of lovingness and the best means of increasing it.

  Benjamin Spock

  Time, Mean, Together

  Benjamin Spock, M.D. (1985). “Raising Children in a Difficult Time”, Pocket

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