I feel that Jazz improvisation is the ultimate. You have to create on the spot, the essence of this music.
Nature is a collective idea, and, though its essence exist in each individual of the species, can never in its perfection inhabit a single object.
The blues is a hopeful music. It helps you process something rather than avoid it. It's like mourning, in essence.
The BEST representation of Source Energy that you will ever find in your physical format is inexpressible. It's that feeling of love and appreciation that just WELLS up within you, that is so sensational that you can hardly find words for it. That's the true ESSENCE of who you are.
The strength of Olympism comes to it from that which is simply human, hence worldwide is its essence.
Is disinterest not the essence of every human relationship?
The essence of global health equity is the idea that something so precious as health might be viewed as a right.
. . . the whole sickening trickery in life -- the idea that one cannot fight for one's humanity without, ironically, losing it. . . that trickery is the real enemy and the very essence of the thing we must continually be on our guard against.
Literature is a comprehensive essence of the intellectual life of a nation.
The essence of all religions is love, compassion, and tolerance. Kindness is my true religion. The clear proof of a person's love of God is if that person genuinely shows love to fellow human beings.
As each individual is electrically alive and dynamic, so yoga is a living, dynamic force in life. In order to savor its essence, one needs a religiously attentive dynamic practice done with awareness and absorption.
The solitary knows the essence of the thought, the scholar in society only its fair face.
Zen in it's essence is the art of seeing into the nature of one's being, and it points the way from bondage to freedom.
Love teaches us how to penetrate the inner worlds, to clean the glass of existence and see reality in its perfect essence.
Man's existence precedes his essence
To me, the essence of keeping the soul nourished is obedience to one's conscience. I don't think that the soul can be nourished unless people have a strong sense of conscience that they have educated and developed and soaked in the universal and timeless principles of integrity and service. This way, the individual's soul becomes part of the universal soul of service, contribution, and making a difference.
Now when I speak about Zen, I have a problem, in the sense that the Zen of today has lost the essence, in my estimation, of what I call "old Zen. "
Repose is the secret of all contemplation and meditation, the secret of getting in tune with that aspect of life which is the essence of all things. When one is not accustomed to take repose, one does not know what is behind one's being.
To quote out of context is the essence of the photographer's craft.
The man who knows governments most completely is he who troubles himself least about a definition which shall give their essence. Enjoying an intimate acquaintance with all their particularities in turn, he would naturally regard an abstract conception in which these were unified as a thing more misleading than enlightening.