Core Essence Quotes

The Ego, however, is not who you really are. The ego is your self-image; it is your social mask; it is the role you are playing. Your social mask thrives on approval. It wants control, and it is sustained by power, because it lives in fear.

There is no end of things in the heart. ...she understood it to mean that if you took something to heart, really brought it inside those red velvet folds, then it would always be there for you. No matter what happened, it would be there waiting. She said this could mean a person, a place, a dream. A mission. Anything sacred. She told me that it is all connected in those secret folds. Always. It is all part of the same and will always be there, carrying the same beat as your heart.

I think love can come fairly easily and grow - but really liking the core essence of someone is a much harder thing to bottle. If you have both, you're in pretty good shape.

I believe we have all this image stuff and blah, blah, blah but at the end of the day it all boils down to music don't you think?

Man is concentric: you have to take fold after fold off of him before you get to the centre of his personality. You must get below his animal nature, habits, customs, affections, daily life, and sometimes go away down into the heart of the man, before you know what is really in him. But when you get into the last core of these concentric rings of personality you find a sense of the infinite-a consciousness of immortality linked to something higher and better.

I might have some quibbles with the way the game is played today, but at its core, I know that hockey will always be hockey no matter what year the calendar reads.

Thinking gives off smoke to prove the existence of fire. A mystic sits inside the burning. There are wonderful shapes in rising smoke that imagination loves to watch. But it's a mistake to leave the fire for that filmy sight. Stay here at the flame's core.

That's what artists do, that's what poets do - we all do it. We start with something, and sometimes we destroy everything that we've made in order to get to the core place where we started from.

Find the heart of it. Make the complex simple, and you can achieve mastery.

For us necessity is not as of old an image without us, with whom we can do warfare; it is a magic web woven through and through us, like that magnetic system of which modern science speaks, penetrating us with a network subtler than our subtlest nerves, yet bearing in it the central forces of the world.

He had got down to the bones of it, and they were fine and strong and simple.

In the midst of all dwells the sun.

The heart is the secret inside the secret.

We've all got an identity. You can't avoid it. It's what's left when you take everything else away.

When you think about the word 'quintessentially', it's about trying to get to the very essence of something.

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

I sometimes get accused of being 'faux-naive,' but for me, it's really just about getting down to the basics of something.

What really matters in a pencil is not its wooden exterior, but the graphite inside. So always pay attention to what is happening inside you.

Deep down there was understanding, not of the facts of our lives so much as of our essential natures.

The authentic self is the soul made visible.

When our minds as people normally starts to wrap around things, we start to attach all these ideas to it that really aren't that necessary to the core of it, if you just experience it and kind of go through it.

Taking them out of the picture, so to speak, what football really is, the savagery, the core root of football, it doesn't change. It really puts the real in football.

Heavy metal is always going to be there. At its core, it's all about a primitive connection we all need to keep in our lives.

It is only the superficial qualities that last. Man's deeper nature is soon found out.

I am a person before I am anything else. I never say I am a writer. I never say I am an artist...I am a person who does those things.