vital essence Quotes

There was only - spring itself, the throb of it, the light restlessness, the vital essence of it everywhere; in the sky, in the swift clouds, in the pale sunshine, and in the warm high wind - rising suddenly, sinking suddenly, impulsive ... If I had been tossed down blindfold on that red prairie, I should have known that it was spring.

Blood was its Avatar and its seal.

The body is solid material wrapped around the breath

Before anything else, you have received breath - the gift of life itself. The first word about you is GIFT.

In medicine as well as in romantic poetry, it is the heart that is the center and controlling mechanics of life. If the heart stops, life stops. The loss of sight doesn't not mean death. Yet for ages, the eyes was believed to contain a human being's vital essence - a not wholly irrational belief.

The soul is the cause or source of the living body. The terms cause and source have many senses. But the soul is the cause of its body alike in all three senses which we explicitly recognize. It is (a) the source or origin of movement, it is (b) the end, it is (c) the essence of the whole living body.

The secret of life does not lie in its chemical basis . . . Life succeeds precisely because it evades chemical imperatives.

Just as without silence there could be no sound, you would not exist without the vital formless dimension that is the essence of who you are.

Of all natural forces, vitality is the incommunicable one. . . . Vitality never "takes." You have it or you haven't it, like health or brown eyes or a baritone voice.

It is because the spirit is inestimable, that the lifeless body is so little valued.

Love is the wine of existence. When you have taken that, you have taken the most precious drop that there is in the cluster.

Spirits that live throughout, Vital in every part, not as frail man, In entrails, heart or head, liver or reins, Cannot but by annihilating die.