Essential Nature Quotes

We see that the soul is the deepest and the most vital part of the person as a whole. It is often treated as the person, and we actually do this when we talk about "saving our soul."

Life is your deepest inner Being. It is already whole, complete, perfect.

You do not explain the tree by telling of the water it has drunk, the minerals it has absorbed, and the sunlight that strengthened it.

Truth is a necessary phantom.

To be radical is to grasp things by the root.

Nothing that is of real value can be lost, only the false dissolves.

Seek a reality deeper than the changing forms.

The shell must be cracked apart if what is in it is to come out, for if you want the kernel you must break the shell. And therefore if you want to discover nature's nakedness you must destroy its symbols, and the farther you get in the nearer you come to its essence. When you come to the One that gathers all things up into itself, there you must stay.

I think that artifice is the new reality. It's more about just being honest and sincere to the core of what you do. Whether I'm wearing lots of makeup or no makeup, I'm always the same person inside.

True self is the part of us that does not change when circumstances do.

The soul is the truth of who we are.

The thing that is important is the thing that is not seen.

When it gets down to it, basketball is basketball.

Everything lives and lasts by the inner necessity of its being, by its own nature's need.

Our essential nature is pure consciousness, the infinite source of everything that exists in the physical world.

A woman is a woman!

All that matters is that the thing be the thing of the thing.

That thing is Freedom: the gift whereby ye most resemble your Maker and are yourselves part of eternal reality.

All science would be superfluous if the outward appearance and the essence of things directly coincided.

Established in Being, perform action.

To see me does not necessarily mean to see my face. To understand my thoughts is to have seen me.

Whatever’s inside making me what I am, it’s like film. Film only works in the dark. Tear it all open and let in the light and you kill it.

man is free, in so far as he has the power of contradicting himself and his essential nature. Man is free even from his freedom; that is, he can surrender his humanity

Your True Nature Is Love. There's Nothing You Can Do About It.

Humans have certain properties and characteristics which are intrinsic to them, just as every other organism does. That's human nature.