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essence: the intrinsic nature or indispensable quality of something, especially something abstract, that determines its character


identity: the distinguishing character or personality of an individual.


So identity would be the aspects of the person that makes him appear different to others.


Essence is the intrinsic nature of somebody that determines her character.


How interesting. What we are doing here is finding our essence, and strengthening it, so that that becomes the us we both act from, and that which we acknowledge as us, as opposed to qualities that give us thing-ness to others.


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