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“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.”

Mind Awareness Buddhism Essence Substance Formation

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Morandi gave an intimate view of his deepest thoughts. We watched him inquiring after the devilish questions of essences and substances.”

Views Essence Substance Intimate Inquiring Devilish Deepest Thoughts

Author:Wayne Thiebaud

“Who is that is dreaming all of this? Ecstasy, pure ecstasy, joy beyond understanding, bliss beyond the dry dullness of the mind's philosophical ranging, light beyond any light in this world - The substance and the essence of all existence is this light, the transcendental light.”

World Mind Dream Light Joy Understanding Existence This World Pure Essence Philosophical Substance Bliss Dry Ecstasy Transcendental Dullness

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Transient bodies are only subject to destruction through their substance and not through their form, nor can the essence of their form be destroyed; in this respect they are permanent.”

Body Form Subjects Destruction Essence Destroyed Substance Permanent Transient

Book:Guide for the perplexed

Source: Guide for the perplexed

“Man can be that which he wishes to be; form and substance, they are but shadows. The mind, the ego, the essence of the god-dream -- that is real, that is immortal.”

Men Mind Real Dream Form Wish Ego Shadow Essence Substance Immortal Form And Substance

Book:The Best of Robert E. Howard Volume 2: Grim Lands

Source: The Best of Robert E. Howard Volume 2: Grim Lands

“During the 20th century, we came to understand that the essence of all substances - their colour, texture, hardness and so forth - is set by their structure, on scales far smaller even than a microscope can see. Everything on Earth is made of atoms, which are, especially in living things, combined together in intricate molecular assemblages.”

Made Earth Together Century Essence Structure Scales Substance Colour Atoms 20th Century Living Things Texture Intricate Microscopes Hardness Assemblage

Author:Martin Rees

“The essence of Christianity is centered upon the Lord Jesus Christ. The sum and substance of being a Christian is trusting Christ with the entirety of one's being. The height of the Christian life is adoring Christ, the depth of it loving Him, the breadth of it obeying Him, and the length of it following Him. Everything in the Christian life revolves around Jesus Christ. Simply put, Christianity is Christ.”

Source: The Kind of Preaching God Blesses

“Innumerable entirely new compounds have been produced in the last century. The artificial dye-stuffs, prepared from materials occurring in coal-tar, make the natural colours blush. Saccharin, which is hundreds of times sweeter than sugar, is a purely artificial substance. New explosives, drugs, alloys, photographic substances, essences, scents, solvents, and detergents are being poured out in a continuous stream.”

Has Beens Lasts Science Stuff Natural Century Materials Drug Essence Prepared Substance Streams Colour Sugar Artificial Scent Coal Compounds Explosives

Book:Matter and energy

Source: Matter and energy

“You can create substances with other naturally grown substances and you can synthesize beautiful bouquets of flowers without spending an arm and a leg, using the citrus fruits, which are much more affordable than flowers, because you need so many flowers to create the essences. In this country [USA], there is not a traditional science of making it. The Native Americans never did it. They bundled the sage.”

Needs Country Beautiful Flower Arms Essence Fruit Legs Spending Traditional Substance Usa Native Native American Sage Affordable Bouquets Citrus

Author:Horst Rechelbacher

“Such simple and steady acts of kindness are the essence of love, the substance of life. All of us need love; all of us want love. Everything else is a consolation prize. What matters is love.”

Want Needs Matter Simple Kindness Essence Substance Prize Steady What Matters Consolation Acts Of Kindness Need Love Consolation Prize

Author:Lloyd D. Newell

“LSD should be treated as a sacred drug and receive corresponding preparation, preparation of quite a different kind than other psychotropic agents. It is one kind of thing if you have a pain-relieving substance or some euphoriant and (another to) have an agent that engages the very essence of human beings, their consciousness.”

Ifs Should Humans Kind Different Pain Human Beings Consciousness Drug Essence Sacred Treated Agents Preparation Substance Different Kinds Corresponding Lsd

Author:Albert Hofmann

“The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.”

Life War Passion Literature Emotion Intellectual Essence Intellect Silly Substance Life And Death Between Life And Death

Author:Isaac Bashevis Singer

“The leaves streamed down, trembling in the sun. They were not green, only a few, scattered through the torrent, stood out in single drops of green so bright and pure that it hurt the eyes; the rest were not a color, but a light, the substance of fire on metal, living sparks without edges. And it looked as if the forest were a spread of light boiling slowly to produce this color, the green rising in small bubbles, the condensed essence of spring. The trees met, blending over the road and the spots of sun on the ground moved with the shifting of the branches, like a conscious caress.”

Source: The Fountainhead

“Cats and ghosts both partook of the saucers of milk and that was okay. They consumed different parts of it: the cats its substance, the ghosts its essence, and none went to waste.”

Different Waste Cat Okay Essence Ghost Substance Milk Consumed

Book:Lips Touch: Three Times

Source: Lips Touch: Three Times

“In Chinese, the word for heart and mind is the same -- Hsin. For when the heart is open and the mind is clear they are of one substance, of one essence.”

Mind Heart Clear Essence Chinese Substance Heart And Mind

Book:Who Dies?: An Investigation of Conscious Living and Conscious Dying

Source: Who Dies?: An Investigation of Conscious Living and Conscious Dying

“Except God no substance can be granted or conceived. .. Everything, I say, is in God, and all things which are made, are made by the laws of the infinite nature of God, and necessarily follows from the necessity of his essence.”

Made Law Ethics All Things Essence Infinite Granted Substance

Author:Baruch Spinoza

“Life is infinite energy coupled with limitless creative imagination. It is the invisible essence and substance of every visible form. Its nature is goodness, truth, wisdom and beauty, as well as energy and imagination. Our highest satisfaction comes from a sense of conscious union with this invisible Life. All human endeavor is an attempt to get back to first principles, to find such an inward wholeness that all sense of fear, doubt and uncertainty vanishes.”

Source: The Art of Life

“Metaphysics is universal and is exclusively concerned with primary substance. ... And here we will have the science to study that which is, both in its essence and in the properties which it has.”

Study Concerned Essence Universal Property Primaries Substance Ecology Metaphysics Deep Ecology

Author:Aristotle

“Christ [is] the very essence of all delights and pleasures, the very soul and substance of them. As all the rivers are gathered into the ocean, which is congregation or meeting-place of all waters in the world: so Christ is that ocean in which all true delights and pleasures meet. . . .”

World Soul Christ Water Pleasure Ocean Rivers Essence Meetings Delight Substance Congregation

Book:The Method of Grace in Bringing Home the Eternal Redemption ... Being the Second Part of Gospel Redemption: Wherein the Great Mystery of Our Union and Communion with Christ is Opened and Applied ...

Source: The Method of Grace in Bringing Home the Eternal Redemption ... Being the Second Part of Gospel Redemption: Wherein the Great Mystery of Our Union and Communion with Christ is Opened and Applied ...

“Reality cannot be found except in One single source, because of the interconnection of all things with one another. I maintain also that substances, whether material or immaterial, cannot be conceived in their bare essence without any activity, activity being of the essence of substance in general.”

Reality Found Materials Source Words Of Wisdom Activity All Things Essence Substance Interconnection

Author:Gottfried Leibniz