Sublime

Essence Essence is the most fundamental aspect of purpose, and the most difficult to describe. It is the aspect of purpose that is pure being, without doing. You are your purpose, even when you are standing still or asleep. This component of purpose is usually the most unconscious, that is, the least apparent to you.

Essence

Essence is not one big lump, not one state or experience or mode of being. Essence has (or is) many states or qualities. There is truth; there is love; there is compassion; there is objective consciousness; there is value; there is will; there is strength; there is joy.

Essence should be the primary concern in our lives. Everything else should come second and should function in the service of Essence. You need to do whatever in your life will enhance and support your essence.

Essence is being. It is something that is actually, substantially there. Most of you fail to understand the significance of this point, so you tend to confuse Essence with emotional states.

To be Essence, to be your true nature, is actually to be, to exist. As I see it, the person who does not live as Essence actually doesn’t live, doesn’t exist in the fundamental sense of the word. The life of a person who doesn’t know Essence, doesn’t live Essence, is a waste really. I think many of you know this on some level.

The specific way that Essence functions in the power drive is through the love of truth for its own sake.

A. H. Almaas, the revered spiritual teacher and founder of the Diamond Approach, in his seminal work Essence (1986),

Essence is not something you are searching for. That is not how it works. You find Essence by being Essence through certain activities.