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Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your a...

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Differ though we might with Christianity's view of what precisely our souls need, it is hard to disc...

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Alain de BottonReligion for Atheists: A Non-Believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion

Our minds are susceptible to the influence of external voices telling us what we require to be satis...

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My soul’s a burden to me, I’ve had enough of it. I’m eager to be in that country, where the sun kill...

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The cats sleep for days at a time and make love from the first star until dawn. Their pleasures are ...

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Their pleasures are fierce and their sleep impenetrable. And they know that the body has a soul in w...

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On the whole men are more good than bad; that, however, isn't the real point. But they are more or l...

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True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.

Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For t...

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The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer ...

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Travel if you wish, taste strange dishes, gather experience in dangerous activities, but see that yo...

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The interior joy we feel when we have done a good deed is the nourishment the soul requires.

My soul is a pale, tenuous membrane..."That was pleasing: a thin, tenuous membrane. It had the right...

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Am I right in suggesting that ordinary life is a mean between these extremes, that the noble man dev...

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Inside my soul a treasure is buried.The key is mine and only mine.How right you are, you drunken mon...

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Alexander BlokThe Silver Age of Russian Culture: An Anthology

Mr. J.L.B Matekoni," she asked, "do you think that our souls grow as we get older?"He did not answer...

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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.

Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

I passionately love liberty, legality, respect for rights, but not democracy. That is what I find in...

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Tears are the summer showers to the soul.

The science of the mind can only have for its proper goal the understanding of human nature by every...

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God who is eternally complete, who directs the stars, who is the master of fates, who elevates man f...

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The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden i...

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Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.

For the human soul is virtually indestructible, and its ability to rise from the ashes remains as lo...

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What that song? I ast. Sound low down dirty to me. Like what the preacher tells you its sin to hear....

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And I don't believe you dead. How can you be dead if I still feel you? Maybe, like God, you changed ...

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How many ills, how many infirmities, does man owe to his excesses, his ambition – in a word, to the ...

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I have no other possessions of value but my soul.

Salsa, classic rock, soul music, jazz... all of that was a part of my education in making hip-hop mu...

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Do not live in the shadow of the masters for ever. Learn to live in the light of your soul. Life des...

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Enlightenment is making friendship with the whole existence.

There are twenty one mystical dimensions of consciousness. Enlightenment is abiding in the highest t...

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Everyone has the fire, but the champions know when to ignite the spark.

Enlightenment is the complete flowering of body, mind and the soul.

Enlightenment is blossoming the thousand petaled lotus flower on the top of the head.

Yoga means addition - addition of energy, strength and beauty to body, mind and soul.

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Amit RayMeditation: Insights and Inspirations

When you touch the celestial in your heart, you will realize that the beauty of your soul is so pure...

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Amit RayMeditation: Insights and Inspirations

Meditation is spending time with the self. It is the time to be intimated with the soul.

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Amit RayMindfulness Living in the Moment - Living in the Breath

Beauty is the purest feeling of the soul. Beauty arises when soul is satisfied.

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Amit RayNonviolence: The Transforming Power

Give time, give space to sprout your potential. Awaken the beauty of your heart – the beauty of your...

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Amit RayNonviolence: The Transforming Power

Write it on your heart you are the most beautiful soul of the Universe. Realize it, honor it and cel...

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Amit RayNonviolence: The Transforming Power

Penetrate deep into the word "Om". Gradually the word will disappear and only the silence will remai...

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Love is the sweetest melody of the soul and anything can be catalyst for that.

Every day, bring some flowers to your life. Every day bring some blessings in someone’s life.

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Amit RayWalking the Path of Compassion

You need bravery for compassion. In the picture of your soul, the bravery points are the most beauti...

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Amit RayWalking the Path of Compassion

Yoga is the art work of awareness on the canvas of body, mind, and soul.

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Amit RayYoga and Vipassana: An Integrated Life Style

I couldn't resist him, his eyes were like yours, his hair was exactly the shade of brown.He's just n...

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Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.

Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished...

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I have a lot of work to do today; I need to slaughter memory, Turn my living soul to stone Then teac...

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Anna AkhmatovaThe Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova

The finest thing under the sun and moon is the human soul. I marvel at the small miracles of kindnes...

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Who said you had to be human to have a soul? Everything that is self-conscious and capable of though...

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Anne RicePrince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis

Your soul is your inner being, your thinking, reasoning, loving, choosing inner being. Your capacity...

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Anne RicePrince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis

Sometimes the soul takes pictures of things it has wished for, but never seen.

Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.

Last year I had a very unusual experience. I was awake, with my eyes closed, when I had a dream. It ...

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Buddhism notes that it is always a mistake to think your soul can go it alone.

In the forty minutes I watched the muskrat, he never saw me, smelled me, or heard me at all. When he...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

It is winter proper; the cold weather, such as it is, has come to stay. I bloom indoors in the winte...

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Today is the winter solstice. The planet tilts just so to its star, lists and holds circling in a fi...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

The color-patches of vision part, shift, and reform as I move through space in time. The present is ...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

All at once, something wonderful happened, although at first, it seemed perfectly ordinary. A female...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

I have often noticed that these things, which obsess me, neither bother nor impress other people eve...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

A kind of northing is what I wish to accomplish, a single-minded trek towards that place where any s...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

Xerxes, I read, ‘halted his unwieldy army for days that he might contemplate to his satisfaction’ th...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

And under the cicadas, deeper down that the longest taproot, between and beneath the rounded black r...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

Say you could view a time-lapse film of our planet: what would you see? Transparent images moving th...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

I want to think about trees. Trees have a curious relationship to the subject of the present moment....

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

You are God. You want to make a forest, something to hold the soil, lock up energy, and give off oxy...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

Shadow is the blue patch where the light doesn’t hit. It is mystery itself, and mystery is the ancie...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

I was in no tent under leaves, sleepless and glad. There was no moon at all; along the world’s coast...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

It looked as though the leaves of the autumn forest had taken flight, and were pouring down the vall...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

Those people who shoot endless time-lapse films of unfurling roses and tulips have the wrong idea. T...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

Were the earth as smooth as a ball bearing, it might be beautiful seen from another planet, as the r...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery. The surface of mystery is not smooth, any mor...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

I am sitting here, you are sitting there. Say even that you are sitting across the kitchen table fro...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

The soul may ask God for anything, and never fail.

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Annie DillardTeaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters

The genius of a composer is found in the notes of his music; but analyzing the notes will not reveal...

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Anthony de MelloAwakening: Conversations with the Masters

They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, ...

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What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

To attain any assured knowledge about the soul is one of the most difficult things in the world.

Holding as we do that, while knowledge of any kind is a thing to be honoured and prized, one kind of...

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We must consider also whether soul is divisible or is without parts, and whether it is everywhere ho...

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The female is, as it were, a mutilated male, and the catamenia are semen, only not pure; for there i...

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To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for exper...

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What victory would the Devil have to win a soul already bad? It is the best the Devil wants, and who...

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But the problem is to make the soul into a monster

She discovered that underneath the aspect of the Rumpled Porcupine, a tortured Marxist was at war wi...

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Arundhati RoyThe God of Small Things

I have only one rule in acting - trust the director and give him heart and soul.

My real soul...? It’s real only when it’s independent...

To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That's what everybody does every hour of his li...

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I see people who talk about America, and then undermine it by not paying attention to its soul, to i...

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People's dreams are made out of what they do all day. The same way a dog that runs after rabbits wil...

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A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.

[God] knows that an uncontrolled life is an unhappy life, so He puts reins on our wayward souls that...

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes