Sentence examples for abiding essence from inspiring English sources

If all beings have "no-self" or abiding essence, if all things are characterized by emptiness (śūnyatā) or the absence of any intrinsic nature basic teachings of both early and later Buddhist traditions and if we have been living the ignorance-biased lives of "sinners" rather than "saints", how is liberation ever possible?

We lack any abiding essence.

All exude a craving for the sublime, and the abiding impression that the essence of what Albarn wants to convey is best captured by music, rather than mere words.

Nicholas Serota, the director of the Tate, said in a statement that Mr. Turnbull's art had come from his "admiration for the simple forms of ancient and Eastern cultures and his abiding search for the essence in any object," but that it "always had a humanist sensibility that identified it as profoundly European".

Ms. Griffin-Black, who was raised Jewish in Pittsburgh, is the dedicated Buddhist with an abiding alchemical passion, mixing and brewing flower and plant essences in tiny glass bottles; she practices hot yoga daily.

His abiding achievement was to strip architecture down to its purest essence – to "almost nothing", as he put it.

Essence of essence.

In heavenly love abiding.

Poverty is an abiding theme.

That's one abiding memory.

The essence.