*ESSENCE/*ESSENCES/*ESSENTIAL - see IDEA, FORM, NATURE, SPIRIT, CHARACTER, NAME, EXPRESSION, WHOLE, SOURCE
Antonyms: SEPARATE
God's essence is beyond our comprehension, but his "energies" are known.(History, p220+254)
God as "the vast self-awareness that goes beyond all things, and yet is the subtle essence of all things." (Stillness, page xv)
Ordinary man is a spark of the divine essence; but he has not yet developed into that glowing light like the Master. There is no difference between Saints and God. God is the sea and Saints are its waves. The waves rise out
of the sea, live on it, and are finally merged into it.Love passes all understanding and beyond all bounds. 'God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.' (Yoga, p47)
What is essential is invisible to the eye. (Mr. Fred Rogers [Neighborhood], ordained Presbyterian minister, PS 5/97)
To close the gap between what I am and what God wants of me, I must empty myself and let Jesus come in and take over. He wants me to focus on the essentials of his message and way of life rather than on the accidentals that needlessly occupy so much of our time and efforts. (Gift of Peace, p16)
Those having cancer see things differently. Life takes on new meaning and suddenly it becomes easier to separate the essential from the peripheral. (Gift of Peace, p93)
The essence of the noble person is that of the wind; the essence of lesser persons is that of grass. And when a wind passes over the grass, it cannot choose but bend. Moral force never dwells in solitude; it will always bring neighbors. (Wisdom, Confucianism, p131)
A key to understanding the creation story is that Creator and creature are one in essence.God is manifest in the many forms of being. (Contemplation, p38)
Ideas or Forms [essences] are primary, while the visible objects of conventional reality are their direct derivatives. The Good, the One, Existence, Truth, and Beauty were supreme. (Plato)
God reveals himself to the prophets. Important distinction between God's essence (ousia), which is entirely incomprehensiible, and his activities in the world, which are called his "powers" or "energies" (energeiai) [or activities or operations or expressions]. These powers shouldn't be confused with the divine essence, which remains shrouded in impenetrable mystery. They simply enable us to catch a glimpse of a reality which is beyond anything we can conceive. (Philo)
Just as we only know a little about God's omniscience, the same is true that we only know a little about God's unconditional love. (Randy)
We are all like the clay Buddha covered with a shell of hardness created out of fear, and yet underneath each of us is a "golden Buddha, a "golden Christ" or a "golden essence" which is our real self. Somewhere along the way, between the ages of two and nine, we begin to cover up our "golden essence," our natural self. Much like the monk with the hammer and chisel, our task now is to discover our true essence once again. (Soup, p71)
The world is an image, an expression of God. The Son is not only Jesus Christ, but everything that has been created in him. Creation belongs to the essence of God and consequently God is never without creation. (Contemplation, p45)