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“Angels can recognize the nature of our unique essence on the basis of nothing more than a brief conversation with us. From hearing the tone of our voice angels sense what we love; and from hearing what we say, angels sense our level of understanding.”

Understanding Voice Levels Conversation Unique Angel Essence Bases Hearing Tone

Author:Emanuel Swedenborg

“A religious phenomenon will only be recognized as such if it is grasped at its own level, that is to say, if it is studied as something religious. To try to grasp the essence of such phenomenon by means of physiology, psychology, sociology, economics, linguistics, art or any other study is false; it misses the one unique and irreducible element in it - the element of the sacred.”

Ifs Trying Mean Art Religious Levels Study Psychology Missing Elements Unique Economics Essence Sacred Phenomenon Sociology Linguistics Physiology

Author:Mircea Eliade

“Art lives on the mental plane (the real painting is not the set of dry pigments on the canvas nor is a symphony the sequence of sound waves that convey it to our ear) but, as the post-modernists insist, is reinterpreted in new contexts by each appreciator. As for gossip, which includes the vast majority of our thoughts, its essence is its relation to a unique local part of time and space.”

“I consider being female such a unique gift, such a sacred joy, in ways that run so deep I can't articulate them. It's a special kind of privilege to be born into the body you wanted, to embrace the essence of your gender even as you recognize what you are up against. Even as you seek to redefine it.”

Way Kind I Can Body Running Wanted Joy Born Special Unique Female Essence Sacred Embrace Privilege Gender Unique Gifts

Book:Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's

Source: Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's

“There exists an infinite, eternal Being, subsisting of himself, who is one without being alone; for he finds in his own essence relations whence, with the necessary movement of his life, results the absolute plenitude of his perfection and his happiness. A Being unique and complete, God suffices to himself.”

God Results Movement Eternal Unique Perfection Essence Relation Absolutes Infinite Being Unique Plenitude

Author:Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

“The essence of positioning is sacrifice. You must be willing to give up something in order to establish that unique position.”

Giving Order Sacrifice Position Willing Giving Up Unique Essence

Book:Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind

Source: Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind

“The self as the essence of individuality is unitemporal and unique; as an archetypal symbol it is a God-image and therefore universal and eternal.”

Self Eternal Unique Essence Universal Individuality Symbols God Image

Book:Jung on Christianity

Source: Jung on Christianity

“The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.”

Art Creative Judging Unique Standards Essence Architecture Judgement Novelty Artists And Creativity Congruence

Book:On becoming a person: a therapist's view of psychotherapy

Source: On becoming a person: a therapist's view of psychotherapy

“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.”

“Depression presents itself as a realism regarding the rottenness of the world in general and the rottenness of your life in particular. But the realism is merely a mask for depression's actual essence, which is an overwhelming estrangement from humanity. The more persuaded you are of your unique access to the rottenness, the more afraid you become of engaging with the world; and the less you engage with the world, the more perfidiously happy-faced the rest of humanity seems for continuing to engage with it.”

World Seems Humanity Particular Depression Unique Essence Access Mask Overwhelming Realism Continuing Engaging Alienation Estrangement

Book:How to Be Alone: Essays

Source: How to Be Alone: Essays

“A tattoo is a true poetic creation, and is always more than meets the eye. As a tattoo is grounded on living skin, so its essence emotes a poignancy unique to the mortal human condition.”

Mind Humans Body Eye Conditions Creation Unique Skins Essence Mortals Poetic Human Condition Tattoo Grounded Poignancy Emote More Than Meets The Eye

Book:Modern Primitives: An Investigation of Contemporary Adornment & Ritual

Source: Modern Primitives: An Investigation of Contemporary Adornment & Ritual

“One must love humanity in order to reach out into the unique essence of each individual: no one can be too low or too ugly.”

Humanity Order Individual Unique Lows Essence Ugly Reach Out Transcendentalism

Author:Georg Buchner