Isness vs Essence - What's the difference?
isness | essence |
(philosophy, spirituality) The quality of being; existence as something.
* 1970 , Daisetz Teitar? Suzuki, Zen and Japanese culture, Volumes 0-9842
* 1978 , Charles B. Ketcham, A theology of encounter: the ontological ground for a new Christology
* 2004 , Richard H. Jones, Mysticism and morality: a new look at old questions
(senseid)The inherent nature of a thing or idea.
* Landor
* Addison
* Courthorpe
(philosophy) The true nature of anything, not accidental or illusory.
Constituent substance.
* Milton
A being; especially, a purely spiritual being.
* Milton
* Washington Irving
A significant feature of something.
The concentrated form of a plant or drug obtained through a distillation process.
* essence of Jojoba
Fragrance, a perfume.
* Alexander Pope
As nouns the difference between isness and essence
is that isness is (philosophy|spirituality) the quality of being; existence as something while essence is (senseid)the inherent nature of a thing or idea.isness
English
Noun
(-)- When I am in my isness , thoroughly purged of all intellectual sediments, I have my freedom in its primary sense.
- Isness always indicates identity of the other or another in an objective way.
- To be aware of knowing God is to know about God and the self — to be thinking in terms of entities — not to have the direct experience of the isness .
essence
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Noun
(en noun)- The laws are at present, both in form and essence , the greatest curse that society labours under.
- Gifts and alms are the expressions, not the essence of this virtue [charity].
- The essence of Addison's humour is irony.
- Uncompounded is their essence pure.
- As far as gods and heavenly essences / Can perish.
- He had been indulging in fanciful speculations on spiritual essences , until he had an ideal world of his own around him.
- Nor let the essences exhale.