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Because it isn__ a loss; just a little piece of their haven had broken off. People can patch things; it still may hurt, but that__ life.

To Graduate from the "School of Life" you need to have met the following criteria: Found your life purpose, know how the egoic mind operates, detached yourself from the egoic mind, lived in essence, been in essence in relationships, overcame duality, trusted life, became awake, reprogrammed beliefs, handled anger, forgiven everyone, loved yourself, dealt with fears, overcome anger you had with God/you, cleared your emotional complexes & negativity, let go of the past, dealt with difficult relationships and mastered loving all creations of the universe.

Love is the light and source of life, and happiness is the delight and essence of life.

When you approach something to photograph it, first be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence. Then don't leave until you have captured its essence.

Stillness offers an experience of being and a recognition that being . . . my essence . . . is a part of all Being, all Essence.

Please, not again what you studied, how long you spent at it, how many books you wrote, what people thought of you - but: what did you learn?

For prayer is request. The essence of request, as distinct from compulsion, is that it may or may not be granted.

Marx was troubled by the question of why ancient Greek art retained an __ternal charm_, even though the social conditions which produced it had long passed; but how do we know that it will remain __ternally_ charming, since history has not yet ended? Let us imagine that by dint of some deft archaeological research we discovered a great deal more about what ancient Greek tragedy actually meant to its original audiences, recognized that these concerns were utterly remote from our own, and began to read the plays again in the light of this deepened knowledge. One result might be that we stopped enjoying them. We might come to see that we had enjoyed them previously because we were unwittingly reading them in the light of our own preoccupations; once this became less possible, the drama might cease to speak at all significantly to us.The fact that we always interpret literary works to some extent in the light of our own concerns - indeed that in one sense of __ur own concerns_ we are incapable of doing anything else - might be one reason why certain works of literature seem to retain their value across the centuries. It may be, of course, that we still share many preoccupations with the work itself; but it may also be that people have not actually been valuing the __ame_ work at all, even though they may think they have. __ur_ Homer is not identical with the Homer of the Middle Ages, nor __ur_ Shakespeare with that of his contemporaries; it is rather that different historical periods have constructed a __ifferent_ Homer and Shakespeare for their own purposes, and found in these texts elements to value or devalue, though not necessarily the same ones. All literary works, in other words, are __ewritten_, if only unconsciously, by the societies which read them; indeed there is no reading of a work which is not also a __e-writing_. No work, and no current evaluation of it, can simply be extended to new groups of people without being changed, perhaps almost unrecognizably, in the process; and this is one reason why what counts as literature is a notably unstable affair.

Cut the connection between your clothes and your beliefs, because clothes will not make you something, it won__ make you honest or dishonest, good or bad! Your essence will not change because of what you wear!

I am about tribal feminine power. As a leader, I may stumble but my essence lives to the future-- of my people, of my literature, of my art. And when a tribesman turn against its leader, that tribe will become two. It may faulter my course, but it will not stifle my ending. I rule only among my believers.

Why does every road eventually narrow into a point at the horizon? Because that's where the point lies.

It is the one who accepts commitment who is strong. The true commitment is the artistic one. This is why artists are so often attacked. They are attacked for their morals, for their ideas _ even for their work. Yet their essence _ their commitment _ is the secret which is unassailable. The true artist knows that creativity is its own reward. Ordinary people fear commitment, you see. Ordinary people fear creativity. They know that if they allow that seething cauldron of yellow liquid to boil over within themselves, then their whole lives will be changed. People fear change. People do not wish to be creative and artistic in any real sense. They wish to decorate, perhaps, and to make things around themselves pleasant _ but this has little to do with creativity. _ All spiritual paths should be creative. Creativity is involved with sacrifice. That stew of yellow liquid which boils in everyone is a sacrificial broth _

Question is the Champion of Quest

You don't have to be strong, because the strength is in you; it's in your DNA, in your soul and your essence.

Much of your strength as a woman can come from the resolve to replenish and fill your own well and essence first, before taking care of others.

Forms are vehicles and instruments, and vehicles and instruments cannot be called good or bad without context.

If God fairness, impartiality, equity, are his essence, that should become dominant in any society

A time past is an essence gone