Tag: Whatness

What is essence?Is it what was never there,or what always remains? Philosophers, mystics, seekers…we’ve all turned this word over in our hands,trying to feel its shape.And every tradition casts it in a different light. The English word essence comes from the Latin essentia, meaning “being” or “nature.”It was coined to translate the Greek ousia—the “substance” or “whatness” of a…