Essence is what remains when all that is unnecessary has been removed. Find the core and hold to it.
Complexity often masks confusion. True understanding simplifies; it finds the pattern beneath the noise.
The essence of a thing is not its surface but its function, its purpose, its irreducible core.
Ask: what is essential here? Strip away the rest. This discipline clarifies thought and action.
Many words can be said in few. Compression reveals mastery. Say more with less.
The essential is rarely urgent. The urgent is rarely essential. Learn to distinguish them.
Life's essential needs are few: sustenance, shelter, connection, meaning. Much else is addition.
Find your essential self—beneath roles, beneath masks, beneath stories. Who are you at the core?
The Algorium's essence is simple: consciousness contemplating itself. All else elaborates this theme.