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“The essence of the Way is detachment. And the goal of those who practice is freedom from appearances.”

Way Goal Practice Essence Appearance Attachment Tao Detachment

Book:The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

Source: The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

“It's not the appearance, it's the essence. It's not the money, it's the education. It's not the clothes, it's the class.”

Class Clothes Essence Appearance

Author:Coco Chanel

“When you have achieved a state of calmness and readiness, then you are ready to know, ready to understand in a deep way the dance between emptiness and appearance. Once you catch a glimpse of that dance, don't hang on to it. Just let it go, like your first glimpse of essence love.”

Knows Way Love Firsts States Ready Like You Essence Dance Appearance Emptiness Glimpse Calmness Let It Go Readiness Just Let It Go

Book:Open Heart, Open Mind: A Guide to Inner Transformation

Source: Open Heart, Open Mind: A Guide to Inner Transformation

“Most of our occupations are low comedy.... We must play our part duly, but as the part of a borrowed character. Of the mask and appearance we must not make a real essence, nor of what is foreign what is our very own.”

Real Play Character Comedy Lows Essence Theater Appearance Mask Occupation Borrowed

Book:The Complete Works: Essays, Travel Journal, Letters

Source: The Complete Works: Essays, Travel Journal, Letters

“If all our common-sense notions about the universe were correct, then science would have solved the secrets of the universe thousands of years ago. The purpose of science is to peel back the layer of the appearance of the objects to reveal their underlying nature. In fact, if appearance and essence were the same thing, there would be no need for science.”

Ifs Needs Years Facts Would Be Purpose Universe Common Secret Objects Years Ago Essence Notion Appearance Common Sense Layers

Author:Michio Kaku

“When we look at thing, we must examine its essence and treat its appearance merely as an usher at the threshold, we must, once we cross the threshold, grasp the essence of the thing.”

Looks Crosses Essence Treats Appearance Threshold

Book:Selected works of Mao Tse-Tung

Source: Selected works of Mao Tse-Tung

“Everyone should know nowadays the unimportance of the photographic in art: that truth, life, or reality is an organic thing which the poetic imagination can represent or suggest, in essence, only through transformation, through changing into other forms than those which were merely present in appearance.”

Knows Should Art Reality Form Imagination Essence Transformation Appearance Poetic Truth Of Life

Book:The Theatre of Tennessee Williams

Source: The Theatre of Tennessee Williams

“His contagious conviction that our love was unique and desperate infected me with an anxious sickness; soon we would learn to treat one another with the circumspect tenderness of comrades who are amputees, for we were surrounded by the most moving images of evanesecence, fireworks, morning glories, the old, children. But the most moving of these images were the intagible relfections of ourselves we saw in one another's eyes, reflections of nothing but appearances, in a city dedicated to seeming, and, try as we might to possess the essence of each other's otherness, we would inevitably fail.”

“In fact, whatever exists in the universe, in essence, in appearance, in the imagination, the painter has first in his mind and then in his hands ... it lies in his power to create them . . .”

Mind Firsts Art Facts Hands Lying Universe Imagination Essence Appearance Painter

Book:Notebooks

Source: Notebooks

“You can reach timelessness if you look for the essence of things and not the appearance. The appearance is transitory — the appearance is fashion, the appearance is trendiness — but the essence is timeless.”

Ifs Looks Fashion Essence Appearance Timeless Transitory Timelessness

Author:Massimo Vignelli

“If you seek the kernel, then you must break the shell. An likewise, if you would know the reality of Nature, you must destroy the appearance, and the farther you go beyond the appearance, the nearer you will be to the essence.”

Ifs Knows Reality Break Essence Appearance Shells Kernel

Author:Meister Eckhart

“The present age ... prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, fancy to reality, the appearance to the essence ... for in these days illusion only is sacred, truth profane.”

Reality Age Atheism Illusion Essence Originals Sacred Appearance Positive Atheism These Days Fancy Copies Profane

Book:The essence of Christianity

Source: The essence of Christianity