Best essence & capacity Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The essence of wealth is the capacity to control the forces of nature, and the extent of wealth depends upon the level of technology and the ability to create new knowledge.”

Force Wealth Ability Levels Technology Depends Capacity Essence Forces Of Nature New Knowledge

Book:The Ultimate Resource 2

Source: The Ultimate Resource 2

“Divinity reveals herself in all things. Everything has Divinity latent within itself. For she enfolds and imparts herself even unto the smallest beings, and from the smallest beings, according to their capacity. Without her presence nothing would have being, because she is the essence of the existence of the first unto the last being.”

Firsts Lasts Existence Capacity All Things Essence Divinity Smallest Impart Latent

Author:Giordano Bruno

“I think the essence of family is that you have to agree to it, and then supply, out of your imagination and capacity for loyalty, the contents of it.”

Thinking Imagination Family Capacity Essence Agree Loyalty

Author:Marilynne Robinson

“When we say God is a spirit, we know what we mean, as well as we do when we say that the pyramids of Egypt are matter. Let us be content, therefore, to believe him to be a spirit, that is, an essence that we know nothing of, in which originally and necessarily reside all energy, all power, all capacity, all activity, all wisdom, all goodness.”

Knows Believe Wells Mean Matter Spirit Energy Activity Goodness Capacity Essence Egypt Pyramids

Book:The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

“The sense itself was I. I felt no dross or matter in my soul, no brims or borders, such as in a bowl we see. My essence was capacity.”

Soul Matter Felt Capacity Essence My Soul Borders Bowls Dross

Author:Thomas Traherne

“The essence of leadership is the capacity to build and develop the self-esteem of the workers.”

Self Self Esteem Capacity Essence Workers Esteem

Author:Irwin Federman

“We lump together all things that are beyond the capacity of all of us collectively to understand-and one name we give to all those things together is God. Therefore, God is the creative force, the sustaining power, that which motivates toward constant change, the overall intelligence which governs the universe by physical and spiritual law, truth, love, goodness, kindness, beauty, the ever-present, all-pervading essence or spirit, which binds everything in the universe together and gives to everything in the universe.”

Giving Together Spiritual Law Spirit Universe Names Force Kindness Creative Goodness Capacity All Things Essence Constant Lumps Sustaining Truth Love

Book:Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

“The essence of pop stardom is immaturity - a wretched little pseudo-musical gift, a development of the capacity to shock, a short-lived notoriety, extreme depression, a yielding to the suicidal impulse.”

Littles Development Capacity Essence Musical Extremes Pops Impulse Shock Suicidal Wretched Immaturity Pseudo Stardom Short Lived Notoriety

Author:Anthony Burgess

“At the deepest level, pride is the choice to exclude both God and other people from their rightful place in our hearts. Jesus said the essence of the spiritual life is to love God and to love people. Pride destroys our capacity to love.”

People Heart Said Spiritual Life Is Choices Jesus Levels Pride Capacity Essence God Love Spiritual Life Capacity To Love

Book:The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People

Source: The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People

“Even the Quran, which Sufis respect as the direct speech of God, lacks the capacity to shed light upon God’s essence. As one Sufi master has argued, why spend time reading a love letter (by which he means the Quran) in the presence of the Beloved who wrote it?”

Mean Light Reading Masters Speech Capacity Direct Letters Essence Beloved Shed Sufi Spend Time Quran Love Letter

Book:No God But God: The Origins, Evolution and Future of Islam

Source: No God But God: The Origins, Evolution and Future of Islam

“I concluded some time ago that a major part of success of a team, or of an individual, has a great deal to do with the intangible qualities possessed. The real key is in how a person see himself (humility), how he feels about what he does (passion), how he works with others (unity), how he makes others better (servanthood), and how he deals with frustration and success, truly learning from each situations (thankfulness). I believe those concepts are the essence of a good player, team, coach, or individual in any capacity in life.”

“Eventually, meditation will make our mind calm, clear, and as concentrated as a laser which we can focus at will. This capacity of one-pointed attention is the essence of genius. When we have this mastery over attention in everything we do, we have a genius for life.”

Mind Attention Clear Focus Meditation Genius Capacity Essence Calm Mastery Lasers

Author:Eknath Easwaran

“Summer cooking implies a sense of immediacy, a capacity to capture the essence of the fleeting moment.”

Moments Food Summer Capacity Essence Cooking Capture Fleeting Immediacy Fleeting Moments

Author:Elizabeth David

“Art is the way to the absolute and to the essence of human life. The aim of art is not the one-sided promotion of spirit, soul and senses, but the opening of all human capacities – thought, feeling, will – to the life rhythm of the world of nature. So will the voiceless voice be heard and the self be brought into harmony with it.”

Source: Tao of Jeet Kune Do

“For those who want to understand the issues of the environmental crisis, Encounters with the Archdruid is a superb book. McPhee reveals more nuances of the value revolution that dominates the new age of ecology than most writers could pack into a volume twice as long. I marvel at his capacity to listen intently and extract the essence of a man and his philosophy in the fewest possible words.”

Men Want Long Book Philosophy Age Values Issues Revolution Capacity Essence Crisis Environmental Encounters Volume Packs Ecology New Age Nuance Superb Environmental Crisis

Author:Stewart Udall

“Martin Buber suggested that evil prevailed because of the inability of man to imagine the real. Yet human beings do have that capacity. Lord Byron, a poet favored by Alfred Nobel, captured the stark essence of a post-nuclear world in his poem Darkness.”

Men World Humans Real Evil Human Beings Lord Darkness Imagine Poet Capacity Essence Nuclear Posts Inability Captured Nobel Starks Byron

Author:Bernard Lown

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