Essence Quotes - Page 73

If we examine the essence of existence, we'll find that the essence is love. There really is nothing that isn't love.

Love is, in its essence, a free, formless strand of luminosity.

You're not a person. We take that form. We're an essence. We're an awareness of God's. We're made up of countless, countless realities.

The enlightened teacher is someone who has become absorbed in eternity. While they may have a body like others, the essence of their being is light.

All of the universes are but phantoms, mirages, and while they have their own essence, their own pantomime - they pass forgotten.

Life exists in countless forms in countless dimensions, in places that we simply cannot see. The essence of life - while it might not appear so when we watch television or watch our loved ones suffer - is good.

Your mind is your life. It's your essence and your substance. It's the part of you that has always been and will always be. Its formations change constantly, which is what makes you always new.

Perception is, in essence, who we are. We are what we perceive. What we perceive defines who we are.

The ultimate intelligence of all things is your essence. Your mind is the universe. Your body is all things.

What I term Zen, old Zen, the original face of Zen, new Zen, pure Zen, or Tantric Zen is - Zen in its essence.

The essence of all practice is to be cool. Life is not worth getting excited about because whatever you perceive is an illusion.

Somewhere there is an essence. It is not a physical somewhere. There is no sense of world, of time and space. That is nirvana.

Our spirit grows and develops traits in each incarnation that it passes through, and then collects and carries the essence of those traits into future lifetimes. In Buddhist Yoga we refer to our multi-life karmic traits as samskaras.

If you are psychic you will become much more aware of the beauty of life. If you are psychic, when you look at a rose, you will see and feel the essence of the rose.

Now when I speak about Zen, I have a problem, in the sense that the Zen of today has lost the essence, in my estimation, of what I call "old Zen."

Bodhidharma who brought Zen from India to the Orient, taught a very pure Zen - in that it was pure Zen. He wanted to show that the way still existed and wanted to get back to its essence.

The essence of your awareness field definitely goes on after death. It goes through death, it goes into non-physical states for a time, and then eventually is pulled back and it reincarnates.

When you die you forget. Death is a sleep, a forgetting. You forget about your previous lifetime. The essence of your being is the same. But at death, the personality dissolves

Each of the ten thousand states of mind presents you with a different view of essence and experience.

Zen was a reaction. Just as Buddha came into the world and spoke against the fall of Vedanta, so Buddhism lost its essence and became ritual. Zen was a reaction to that.

The essence of all reincarnation is to have the best lifetime now that you've ever had, no matter what's going on.

There was a time when you came forth from infinity, your essence that is. You've always existed, and you'll always exist. But there are different states of mind in the universe.

You reincarnate forever because you exist forever. You can't die. You can't be born, your essence that is. You are on a big wheel.

The Federal Government was never, in its essence, anything but an anti-slavery government.

Reminding is the essence of organizing.