“The very essence of playfulness is an openness to anything that may happen, the feeling that whatever happens, it's okay... you're either free to play, or you're not.” MayPlayFeelingsHappensOkayEssenceOpennessWhatever HappensPlayfulness Author:John Cleese
“Anything that's really good, everybody wants to put their hands on. The multimedia puts their hands on it and everything happens that makes it global. Then people forget the roots of it and people forget why they care about it, and then it gets torn apart and turns so commercial that you don't even know what the essence of this art form is even about.” PeopleKnowsWantArtHandsHappensCareFormTurnsForgetRootsEssenceThings HappenTornTorn ApartMultimedia Author:Nas
“When great loss happens - deaths close to you or your own approaching death - this is an opportunity for stepping completely out of identification with form and realizing the essence of who you are, or that the essence of anyone who is suffering or dying is beyond death.” HappensFormSufferingOpportunityRealizingLossDyingEssenceWho You AreIdentificationGreat LossApproaching Death Author:Eckhart Tolle
“Essence of newspaper is the large size. You are a reader you're an eagle flying over the desert, you're scanning. You see the rabbit and you zoom down and you grab it. That just happens naturally in a size that fits very well with how the human body works. Got to have a large display and it has to be portable.” HumansWellsBodyHappensReaderFitEssenceDown AndSizeNewspapersFlyingDesertDisplayHuman BodyRabbitsEaglesZoomScanningBody Work Author:Russ Wilcox
“Whatever happens, whatever you experience, feel, think, do - it's always now. It's all there is. And if you continuously miss the now - resist it, dislike it, try to get away from it, reduce it to a means to an end, then you miss the essence of your life, and you are stuck in a dream world of images, concepts, labels, interpretations, judgments - the conditioned content of your mind that you take to be yourself.” IfsThinkingWorldFeelsTryingMindMeanEndsDreamHappensMissingJudgmentConceptsEssenceStuckLabelsBeing YourselfGet AwayInterpretationDislikeWhatever HappensDream WorldMeans To An End Author:Eckhart Tolle
“The essence of the this-time-is-different syndrome is...rooted in the firmly held belief that financial crises are things that happen to other people in other countries at other times; crises do not happen to us, here and now. We are doing things better, we are smarter, we have learned from past mistakes. The old rules of valuation no longer apply. Unfortunately, a highly leveraged economy can unwittingly be sitting with its back at the edge of a financial cliff for many years before chance and circumstance provoke a crisis of confidence that pushes it off.” PeopleYearsDifferentCountryHappensPastBeliefChanceMistakeEconomyCircumstancesSittingEssenceCrisisFinancialEdgesRootedOther CountriesSmarterProvokingCliffsHere And NowSyndromesFinancial CrisisValuationPast Mistakes Author:Carmen Reinhart
“The problem for most of us is that the cup has holes, so love goes out just as easily as it goes in. What happens when people are living in the unconditional state of love, however, is that they recognize they are the ocean of love; they know it's their essence. And they naturally overflow in this love. So instead of being love beggars, they become love philanthropists.” PeopleKnowsStatesProblemHappensLove IsOceanEssenceHolesCupsUnconditionalBeggarOverflowPhilanthropist Author:Marci Shimoff
“When we stop and reflect things begin to happen and sometimes we get the essence of God when we are just quiet.” SometimesHappensQuietEssence Author:Sally Quinn
“He had no conscious knowledge of death, but like every animal of the Wild, he possessed the instinct of death. To him it stood as the greatest of hurts. It was the very essence of the unknown; it was the sum of the terrors of the unknown, the one culminating and unthinkable catastrophe that could happen to him, about which he knew nothing and about which he feared everything.” HappensHurtAnimalConsciousEssenceInstinctTerrorPossessedCatastropheUnthinkable Book:The Call of the Wild and White Fang Source: The Call of the Wild and White Fang
“The more truthful I am with myself and others, the more my conscience is clear and tranquil. Thus, I can more thoroughly and unequivocally inhabit the present moment and accept everything that happens without fear, knowing that what goes around comes around (the law of karma). Ethical morality and self-discipline represent the good ground, or stable basis. Mindful awareness is the skillful and efficacious grow-path, or way. Wisdom and compassion constitute the fruit, or result. This is the essence of Buddhism [...]” WayI CanSelfMomentsHappensLawGrowsResultsCompassionAcceptingKnowingPathClearAwarenessBuddhismDisciplineMoralityConscienceEssenceBasesFruitKarmaPresent MomentEthicalStableTruthfulSelf DisciplineTranquilSkillfulGoes Around Comes AroundLaw Of Karma Author:Surya Das
“It is difficult to see the great dance effects as they happen, to see them accurately, catch them fast in memory. It is even more difficult to verbalize them for critical discussion. The particular essence of a performance, its human sweep of articulate rhythm in space and in time has no specific terminology to describe it by.” HumansHappensDifficultMemoriesSpaceEffectsParticularEssencePerformancesDanceCriticalRhythmDiscussionTerminologyGreat Dance Author:Martha Graham
“I don't mind what happens. That is the essence of inner freedom. It is a timeless spiritual truth: release attachment to outcomes, deep inside yourself, you'll feel good no matter what.” FeelsMindMatterHappensSpiritualMeditationEssenceNo Matter WhatFeel GoodReleaseOutcomesAttachmentTimelessDeep InsideSpiritual Truth Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti
“Mere numbers cannot bring out ... the intimate essence of the experiment. This conviction comes naturally when one watches a subject at work. ... What things can happen! What reflections, what remarks, what feelings, or, on the other hand, what blind automatism, what absence of ideas! ... The experimenter judges what may be going on in [the subject's] mind, and certainly feels difficulty in expressing all the oscillations of a thought in a simple, brutal number, which can have only a deceptive precision. How, in fact, could it sum up what would need several pages of description!” NeedsFeelsMindMayIdeasFactsFeelingsHandsHappensScienceSimpleNumbersWatchesSubjectsJudgingPagesReflectionEssenceDifficultyBlindMereConvictionAbsenceExperimentsIntimateDescriptionBrutalRemarksPrecisionDeceptiveOscillation Author:Alfred Binet
“You're dealing in magic-it's this intangible thing that has to happen. And to seek it out too much might not be a good idea. Because, you know, it's very shy, too. But once you've got the essence of them, you can work songs and improve them. You see if there's a better word, or a better change.” IfsKnowsIdeasMightHappensSongToo MuchMagicEssenceShySongwritingGood IdeasIntangible Author:Tom Petty
“Devotion is the essence of the path, and if we have in mind nothing but the guru and feel nothing but fervent devotion, whatever occurs is perceived as his blessing. If we simply practice with this constantly present devotion, this is prayer itself. When all thoughts are imbued with devotion to the guru, there is a natural confidence that this will take care of whatever may happen. All forms are the guru, all sounds are prayer, and all gross and subtle thoughts arise as devotion. Everything is spontaneously liberated in the absolute nature, like knots untied in the sky.” IfsFeelsMindMayHappensCareFormSoundNaturalPrayerPracticePathSkyBlessingEssenceAbsolutesTake CareAriseDevotionSubtleGrossGuruLiberatedKnotsFervent Author:Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
“The essence of warriorship, or the essence of human bravery, is refusing to give up on anyone or anything. We can never say that we are simply falling to pieces or that anyone else is, and we can never say that about the world either. Within our lifetime there will be great problems in the world, but let us make sure than within our lifetime do disasters happen. We can prevent them. It is up to us.” WorldGivingHumansProblemHappensFallPiecesGiving UpEssenceBraveryLifetimeDisasterFalling To Pieces Book:Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior Source: Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior
“The lack of insight to reality, life and history as well as into God's ways, or sunan in His creation, some people will continue to seek or demand the impossible. They will imagine what does not or cannot happen, misunderstand occurrences and events, and interpret them on the basis of cherished illusions which in no way reflect God's sunan or the essence of Islamic law.” PeopleWayWellsDoeRealityHappensLawImagineImpossibleEventsCreationDemandIllusionEssenceBasesInsightIslamicIslamic Law Author:Yusuf al-Qaradawi
“We have to distinguish between a man as he is in essence, and as he is in ego or personality. In essence, every person is perfect, fearless, and in a loving unity with the entire cosmos; there is no conflict within the person between head, heart, and stomach or between the person and others. Then something happens: the ego begins to develop, karma accumulates, there is a transition from objectivity to subjectivity; man falls from essence into personality.” MenHeartPersonsHappensFallPerfectPersonalityConflictEgoEssenceUnityKarmaThings HappenFearlessCosmosStomachTransitionObjectivitySubjectivity Author:Oscar Ichazo
“Once there is a certain degree of Presence, of still and alert attention in human beings' perceptions, they can sense the divine life essence, the one indwelling consciousness or spirit in every creature, every life-form, recognize it as one with their own essence and so love it as themselves. Until this happens, however, most humans see only the outer forms, unaware of the inner essence, just as they are unaware of their own essence and identify only with their own physical and psychological form.” LoveHumansStillsHappensFormSpiritCertainHuman BeingsAttentionConsciousnessAwarenessDivineCreaturesDegreesPerceptionEssencePsychologicalDivine Life Author:Eckhart Tolle