Die Essenz drückt das wahre Wesen einer Sache, Person, Zustandes usw. aus.
Essenz ist eine Kombination aus Bedeutung, Intention und nichtlinearen Eigenschaften.

Hawkins erläutert an folgendem Beispiel, wie man aus einem Gemenge von Wahrnehmungen Essenz herausfiltern kann:

Ein Spaziergänger im Wald hört im Hintergrund das Geräusch von knackenden Zweigen und das Rascheln von Blättern. Er weiß und spürt, dass die Geräusche Ausdruck der der Wahrnehmung eines friedlichen, normalen Zustands des Waldes sind. Plötzlich bricht ein Ast. Das Geräusch hört sich genauso an wie sonst auch. Dennoch stellt sich ein anderes Gefühl dabei ein. Zu dem gesellt sich das intuitive Wissen, dass ein Bär [Essenz] in der Nähe ist.

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Die Strategie des Seins – Essenz

Kurz vor seiner Ermordung im Januar 1948 gab der indische Weise Mahatma Gandhi sein letztes Interview.
Ein junger Reporter der Zeitung The Times of India befragte ihn:

"Wie haben Sie die Briten gezwungen, Indien zu verlassen?
Die Briten haben seit mehr als 350 Jahren Indien beherrscht.
Sie hatten keine Armee, kein Geld, keine offizielle Position, keinen Rückhalt durch die Regierung.
Wie haben Sie die Briten zwingen können, Indien zu verlassen?"

Gandhis Antwort lautete:

"Ich wiederhole das, was ich bereits der Nationalen Kongresspartei'' gesagt habe.
"Sie verstanden es nicht, doch vielleicht verstehen Sie es.

Es war nicht von Bedeutung, was wir sagten, obwohl das wichtig war.
Es war nicht von Bedeutung, was wir taten, obwohl das auch wichtig war.
Von Bedeutung war das 'Wesen unseres Seins'. Die Essenz dessen, was wir waren,
veranlasste die [Kolonialregierung der] Briten zu der Entscheidung, Indien zu verlassen."¹

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Ausdruck von Essenz	Ausdruck von Wahrnehmung
Akzeptierend	Verurteilend
Klarheit	Verfremdung
"So wie es ist"	Gewinn/Verlust
Qualität	Wert (Preis)
Wahrheit	Glaubensüberzeugungen
Existenz	Bedeutung
Ganzheit	Selektion
Beobachten	Wollen / nicht wollen
Erkennen	Einschätzen
Wissen(dsein)	Nachdenken über etwas

Hawkins, Ausschnitt aus einer Tabelle,
Sedona Seminar Perception vs. Essence, 22. April 2006

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Diese alldurchdringende Essenz schließt alles ohne Ausnahme ein. Das All-sehende Auge, Die An-Wesenheit, S. 22

Die Essenz aller Wahrheit offenbart sich als sich selbst erklärend und offenkundig. Die Vollständigkeit und Ganzheit dieser Wissendheit überschreitet die Grenzen der Zeit und ist daher immer gegenwärtig. Eine Widerspiegelung ihrer Gegenwart ist die Fähigkeit, Unbegreifliches durch die Selbstoffenbarung seiner Essenz zu begreifen. Somit ist alles offenbar geworden. Das Unmanifeste und das Manifeste sind ein und dasselbe. Das All-sehende Auge, S. 58

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Spirit refers to an unseen essence, which never changes, even though its expression varies from one situation to another. This essence is vital; when we lose our spirit, we die – we expire from lack of that which inspires. Power vs. Force, chapter 13, S. 179

The pervasive Essence includes everything without exception. The furnishings in the room are equal to rocks or plants in their importance or significance. Nothing is excluded from the Allness which is all encompassing, total, complete, and lacking in nothing. All is of equal value because the only real value is the divinity of existence. The Eye of the I, The Presence, S. 4

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Ef·ful·gent:
shining forth brilliantly; radiant

Instead of thinkingness, there is a self-revealing knowingness that imparts complete understanding and is self-explanatory by its self-effulgent essence. It is as though everything speaks silently and presents itself in its entirety in the absolute beauty of its perfection. In so doing, it manifests its glory and reveals its intrinsic Divinity. The Eye of the I, S. 5

It is the ultimate human paradox that man's dependence on perception precludes his being able to know his own identity. The Eye of the I, S. 220

The ego is attracted to the limitation of form, whereas the essence of Divinity is beyond all form, yet innate within it. Truth vs. Falsehood, S. 361

At his level of development [Calibration Level 500], the capacity to discern essence becomes predominant; the core of an issue becomes the center of focus. As reason is bypassed, there arises the capacity for instantaneous recognition of the total it of a problem and a major expansion of context. Reason deals with particulars, whereas love deals with wholes. This ability, often ascribed to intuition, is the capacity for instantaneous understanding without resorting to sequential symbol processing. Transcending Levels of Consciousness, S. 245

Life becomes phenomenologically autonomous as an expression of the evolution of Creation and the omnipresent field of consciousness itself, which is also innately versatile by virtue of the quality of its Essence. Transcending Levels of Consciousness, S. 287

With this [spiritual] orientation, processing of information becomes increasingly more contextual and general rather than particular, and there is less mental vocalization and languaging. This evolves into the capacity to 'realize' and 'know', without thinkingness. The subjective experiential quality of holding a purring cat or encountering a dog's wagging tail does not require thinking or mentalization at all. Instead, one just 'gets' what the whole situation is about because of the progressive capacity for the discernment of essence rather than mentalized perception. By this process, it eventually becomes quite clear that everything 'just is as it is', and 'what' it is, is its 'meaning. Transcending the Levels of Consciousness, S. 338

Language is only descriptive appearance at best and not in the same category as essence. Experience is of a different level from symbols. Thus, the musical score of the opera or symphony does not create aesthetic delight, but only the music itself results in delight because it is of a different and higher paradigm level than the written score of musical symbols. Reality, Spirituality and Modern Man, S. 93

Safeguards against being programmed by society are:
- (1) emotional detachment, in which all information is viewed as provisional;
- (2) awareness that ordinary mentalization is unable to discern perception from essence; and
- (3) knowing that the wolf often hides beneath sheep's clothing.

This suspension of belief is the practical application of the basic dictum to "wear the world like a loose garment." To "be in the world but not of it" is a mode of attention that nevertheless still allows spontaneous interaction and function in society. Along the Path to Enlightenment. 365 Reflections from David R. Hawkins, Reflection of 13th September, S. ?

The third eye of discernment BEGINS opening at level 200. You don't have to wait till you're a Buddha to discern appearance from essence. Sedona Seminar Transcending Obstacles, DVD 2 of 3, about minute 9:30, 3. September 2005

Before level 600, you don’t have the capacity to determine spiritual essence from appearance. You would have to calibrate it. Sedona Seminar God vs. Science. Limits of the Mind, 3 DVD set, 17. February 2007

Spiritual means you are interested in the essence of the Truth within the teachings. Thus a person can be religious and spiritual if he or she is interested in the essence of the Truth within the teachings. [Paraphrased.] Sedona Seminar Practical Spirituality, 3 DVD set, 25. October 2008

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Persönliche Bekenntnis
Ich erinnere mich sehr deutlich daran, wie ich mit fünfzig Jahren in die Menopause kam. Eines Tages war ich gerade in meinem Keller am Aufräumen, als mir plötzlich eine verführerische Stimme ins Ohr flüsterte:

„Möchtest du sterben?“

Das Angebot war verlockend, doch ich spürte in mich hinein und stellte fest: Nein, ich habe noch kaum angefangen.

„Möchtest du Krebs bekommen oder möchtest du dich verjüngen?“,

fuhr die Stimme fort. Ich war schockiert.

„Ich wusste gar nicht, dass ich diese Wahl habe“,

antwortete ich innerlich.

„Du hast sie“,

wurde mir geantwortet,

„Krebs ist der panische Versuch des Körpers, ziel- und planlos zu wachsen.
Verjüngung entsteht, wenn du dich dafür entscheidest, den tieferen Plan deiner Evolution zu aktivieren. Die Tendenz zum Krebs wird zur Regeneration deiner Zellen umgewandelt, solange du bereit bist, deiner höheren Bestimmung zu folgen.
Der Tod kommt, wenn du dich entscheidest, es nicht mehr zu tun. Du wirst so lange leben, wie du schöpferisch tätig bist. Die Menopause führt so zur Metamorphose.“

Barbara Marx Hubbard, US-amerikanische Visionärin, ehemalige Kandidatin der Demokraten für das Amt der Vizepräsidentin,
Vom Ego zur Essenz, Koha Verlag, 1. Juli 2003

Wenn wir für das Wort Gott durch das Wort Wesen ersetzen, sehen und merken wir alle wohl, dass in allen Dingen Wesen ist. Wenn also Gott das eigentliche Wesen ist, so muss darum notwendigerweise Gott in allen Dingen sein. Meister Eckhart Eckhart von Hochheim [BW 705] (1260-1328) deutscher Mystiker, dominikanischer Theologe, Philosoph

Mensch werde wesentlich, denn wenn die Welt vergeht, so fällt der Anschein fort, das Wesen das besteht. Angelus Silesius (1624-1677) deutscher mystischer Lyriker, Theologe Cherubinischer Wandersmann

Trotz unserer Unterschiede sind wir alle gleich. Jenseits von Identität und Verlangen gibt es ein gemeinsames Zentrum, einen inneren Kern – eine essentielle Menschlichkeit, deren Wesen Frieden, deren Ausdruck das Denken und dessen Handeln bedingungslose Liebe ist. Wenn wir uns mit jenem inneren Kern identifizieren, wenn wir ihn bei anderen ebenso wie auch in uns ehren, erfahren wir Heilung in allen Bereichen des Lebens. Joan Borysenko, US-amerikanische spirituelle Lehrerin, klinische Ärztin, Pionierin der integrativen Medizine, Minding the Body, Mending the Mind, Da Capo Press, revised edition, 13. November 2007

Die Landkarte ist nicht die Landschaft. Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa, US-amerikanischer Psychologe, Semantiker, Politiker

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Spirit is the suchness, the isness, the essence of each and every thing that exists. [...]
Paradox is simply the way nonduality looks to the mental level. Spirit itself is not paradoxical; strictly speaking, it is not characterizable at all. [...]
Hierarchy is illusion. There are levels of illusion, not levels of reality. [...]
You go from unconscious Hell to conscious Hell, and being conscious of Hell, of samsara, of lacerating existence, is what makes growing up – and being an adult – such a nightmare of misery and alienation. [...]
Development is not regression in service of ego, but evolution in transcendence of ego. [...] Ken Wilber, Within levels, heterarchy, between levels, holarchy

Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The map is not the territory. Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are. John Wooden (1910-2010) US American basketball coach

When you are in touch with your Essence, you know that you are acceptable exactly as you are. There is nothing about you or anyone else that needs to be improved or fixed. To know your Essence, you must discard your self-judgements and your criticisms of your brother or sister. Paul Ferrini

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The Essence of Beingness

Shortly before he was assassinated the Indian sage and spiritual activist leader Mahatma Gandhi gave his last interview in January 1948.
A young reporter sent by The Times of India asked him these questions:

"How did you force the British to leave India?
The British have been in India for more than 350 years.
You had no army, you had no money, you had no official position, you had no government sanction.
How did you force the British to leave India?"

Gandhi's response was,

"Well, I will tell you what I told the National Congress Party. They didn't understand it, but maybe you will.
It was not what we said that mattered, although that was important.
It was not what we did that mattered, although that too was important.
What mattered was the 'nature of our beingness'. The essence of who we were,
that is what made the British choose to leave India." ²

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God brews the coffee

A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university professor. Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life.

Offering his guests coffee, the professor went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups – porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal, some plain looking, some expensive, some exquisite – telling them to help themselves to the coffee.

When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said:

"If you noticed, all the nice looking expensive cups were taken up, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress. Be assured that the cup itself adds no quality to the coffee. In most cases it is just more expensive and in some cases even hides what we drink. What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you consciously went for the best cups... and then you began eyeing each other's cups.
Now consider this: Life is the coffee; the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain Life, and the type of cup we have does not define, nor change the quality of Life we live.
Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee God has provided us.
God brews the coffee, not the cups. Enjoy your coffee!
The happiest people don't have the best of everything. They just make the best of everything.
Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly. Leave the rest to the Universe."

Inspirational video movie Life Is Like A Cup of Coffee, YouTube film, 3:31 minutes duration, posted 6. February 2009
Chocolate Wisdom, YouTube film, 4:15 minutes duration, posted 27. December 2009

A force driven life focuses on sheer needs and contents. … (cups)

A life filled with true power views content ... (cups) plus context, … (coffee)

A life filled with true love and true power views context ... (coffee) plus content. … (cups)

A life filled with peace, true love and true power rests in context. … (coffee)

As we progress in our lives, the Greek female seer Diotima of Mantinea, told Socrates, we grow in our conception of love.
1. First we are stirred by the beauty of the young body … (cup)
2. Then we begin to see the beauty in all bodies. … (cups)
3. At this point we look to the beauty of the soul. … (coffee)
4. As man is able to identify the beauty in all souls, he soon appreciates the beauty in the laws, and the strucure of all things. … (coffeeness)
5. Lastly we discover the beauty of the forms, the divine ideas. … (essence)

Love is important for it starts and continues us on our path.
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Sedona Seminar Perception vs. Essence, 22. April 2006
Satsang Mittwoch, 12. Juli 2006 Hörprobe
Essence is a combination out of meaning, intention, and nonlinear qualities. [Essenz ist eine Kombination aus Bedeutung, Intention und nichtlineare Qualitäten.]
Be the context instead of identifying yourself with contents. [Sei der Kontext statt dich mit Inhalten zu identifizieren!]
Audio series The Discovery, 6 CD set, Nightingale-Conant, UK, May 2007 – "What can i do to benefit mankind? Stay home!", YouTube film, 5:15 minutes duration, posted 15. January 2012
The essence of that what you are is forever. minute 4:58