Sentences with phrase «away at the essence»

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«If we are ever to reach you, matter, we must, having first established contact with the totality of all that lives and moves here below, come little by little to feel that the individual shapes of all we have laid hold on are melting away in our hands, until finally we are at grips with the single essence of all subsistencies and all unions.

The man who is wholly taken up with the demands of everyday living or whose sole interest is in the outward appearances of things seldom gains more than a glimpse, at best, of this second phase in our sense - perceptions, that in which the world, having entered into us, then withdraws from us and bears us away with it: he can have only a very dim awareness of that aureole, thrilling and inundating our being, through which is disclosed to us at every point of contact the unique essence of the universe.

They speak of me with scorn, calling me beggar - woman or witch or harlot; but their words are at variance with life, and the pharisees who condemn me, waste away in the outlook to which they confine themselves; they die of inanition and their disciples desert them because I am the essence of all that is tangible, and men can not do without me.

Stacks of rice flower, sake and fruit are often placed at the altar; after the gods have consumed the «essence,» the food is given away at the end of the services as door prizes.

But if you and I decide that the quality of life of a quadraplegic does not make life worth living, then we in essence contribute to taking away that person's hope — because we don't do anything that may be in our power to give that person some equal chances at tomorrow.

There is no glassy essence to discover; there is nothing but an unformed gaze that receives form only by looking away from itself and receiving the gift of being looked at by God.

I wonder if the money counters at Author Solutions, also AuthorHouse and a bunch of its other branded names, truly believe that the little people — the thousands of authors who have been misled, abused, assaulted and then had the soul of their author essence literally sucked away because the author just couldn't take it anymore — wouldn't start uniting... squawking... and finally take some action?

There's a counter that slowly whittles away at the total amount of experience you can get back so speed is of the essence!