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From a personality point of view, you develop judgment, but from the sou's point of view, you develo...

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Ram DassPolishing the Mirror: How to Live from Your Spiritual Heart

Unless one always speaks the truth, one cannot find God Who is the soul of truth.

The mind itself is of the form of all, i.e., of soul, God and world; when it becomes of the form of ...

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Even the juncture in history and the zeitgeist we live in is something we choose, setting the scene ...

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Everyone must leave something behind when he dies . . . Something your hand touched some way so your...

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But souls can't be sold. They can only be lost and never found again.

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Ray BradburyLong After Midnight

My mom calls me an older soul because, growing up, she taught me stuff real early. Now I spend most ...

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Thou I cannot so freely say, My heart is with thee, my soul longeth after thee ; yet can I say, I lo...

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Richard BaxterThe Saints' Everlasting Rest

Don't indulge your ego at the expense of your soul.

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Rick WarrenThe Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

Friendship! Mysterious cement of the soul, Sweet'ner of life, and solder of society.

Blot out his name, then, record one lost soul more,  One task more declined, one more footpath untro...

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Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure.

More than once I should have lost my soul to radicalism if it had been the originality it was mistak...

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There is no money in poetry, but then there is no poetry in money.

Because the world is in a sick condition and we are all somehow infected, against our will, even if ...

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... Man is not truly one, but truly two... even if I could rightly be said to be either, it was only...

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Robert Louis StevensonThe Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Even Diotima and Amheim were shy of using it without a modifier, for it is still possible to speak o...

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Robert MusilThe Man Without Qualities: Vol. 1

I am so fresh in soul and spirit that life gushes and bubbles around me in a thousand springs.

You are an Universe of Universes and your soul a source of songs.

All of nature begins to whisper its secrets to us through its sounds. Sounds that were previously in...

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A healthy social life is found only when, in the mirror of each soul, the whole community finds its ...

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Feelings are for the soul what food is for the body.

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Rudolf SteinerHow to Know Higher Worlds: A Modern Path of Initiation

Just as in the body, eye and ear develop as organs of perception, as senses for bodily processes, so...

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Rudolf SteinerTheosophy: An Introduction to the Spiritual Processes in Human Life and in the Cosmos

I had been afraid of the awful presence of the river, which was the soul of the river, but through h...

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Body and spirit, I surrendered whole, To harsh Instructors- and received a soul.

The moment I first heard love I gave up my soul, my heart, and my eyes.

As a boy, reading was my religion. It helped me to discover my soul. Later, writing helped me to rec...

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Ruskin BondThe Lamp is Lit: Leaves from a Journal

Wars will remain while human nature remains. I believe in my soul in cooperation, in arbitration; bu...

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Obviously, a rigid, blinkered, absolutist world view is the easiest to keep hold of, whereas the flu...

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If he believed in souls he would have said she had a good one.

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Salman RushdieTwo Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights

Ibn Rushd caressing her body had often praised its beauty to the point at which she grew irritated a...

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Salman RushdieTwo Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights

My mother's death supervened, and this was the greatest blow I had experienced in my life. I worship...

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Salvador DalíThe Secret Life of Salvador Dalí

Ada: And why life? (Pause.) Why life, Henry? (Pause.) Is there anyone about?Henry: Not a living soul...

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This is the spot where I will lie When life has had enough of me, These are the grasses that will bl...

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I would not have a god come in To shield me suddenly from sin, And set my house of life to rights; N...

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Just because your soul is being torn to pieces doesn't mean that you stop analyzing the phenomena.

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Saul BellowHumboldt's Gift

He didn't ask "Where will you spend eternity?" as religious the-end-is-near picketers did but rather...

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Peace does exist. It exists in your heart and soul.

The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despi...

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Belief in immortality is harmful because it is not in our power to conceive of the soul as really in...

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Simone WeilGravity and Grace

There is one way, then, in which a man can be free from all anxiety about the fate of his soul - if ...

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The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.

If the soul is immortal, it demands our care not only for that part of time which we call life, but ...

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A man who preserves his integrity no real, long-lasting harm can ever come.

...[W]hen death comes to a man, the mortal part of him dies, but the immortal part retires at the ap...

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The soul that has conceived one wickedness can nurse no good thereafter.

If we can feel that it is not our voice, not our fingers, but some reality deep inside our heart whi...

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Still the invisible Magnet drew his soul

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Sri AurobindoSavitri: A Legend and a Symbol

The soul attracted leaned to the Abyss:It longed for the adventure of Ignorance

The inner light actually comes from the soul; it is already inside us. The moment we can have free a...

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Sri ChinmoyThe Wings of Joy: Finding Your Path to Inner Peace

Has your soul a special mission? Yes. Your mission is in the inmost recesses of your heart, and you ...

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Sri ChinmoyYoga And The Spiritual Life; The Journey Of India's Soul

Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.

But as the girl timidly accosted him, he gave a convulsive movement and saved hisrespectability by a...

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Stephen CraneMaggie: A Girl of the Streets & Other Stories

There can't be that many individual souls. Not souls like mine. There isn't room. There can't be.

Isn't bravery always sort of beautiful?

She can't help it,' he said. 'She's got the soul of a poet and the emotional makeup of a junkyard do...

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I wanted the monster back and that was plainly wrong.

Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive o...

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In my dreams I come face to face with myriad reflections of myself, all unknown and passing strange....

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The supposedly immaterial soul, we now know, can be bisected with a knife, altered by chemicals, sta...

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The doctrine of a soul that outlives the body is anything but righteous, because it necessarily deva...

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Steven PinkerThe Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature

There's a gap somehow between empathy and activism. Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke of 'soul ...

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I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.

I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing.

Under the penitential gatesSustained by staring SeraphimWhere the souls of the devoutBurn invisible ...

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The soul is a magician. Only living flesh hampers it.

It is the imagination that argues for the Divine Spark within human beings. It is literally a decent...

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The artist’s task is to save the soul of mankind; and anything less is a dithering while Rome burns....

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...Since in the centre of the soul there is a mansion reserved for God Himself...

But always when I was without a book, my soul would at once become disturbed, and my thoughts wander...

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Teresa of ÁvilaThe Life of Saint Teresa of Ávila by Herself

Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.

Truth never yet fell dead in the streets; it has such affinity with the soul of man, the seed howeve...

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The miser, starving his brother's body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of h...

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Anger is one of the sinews of the soul.

Anger is one of the sinews of the soul.

Anger is one of the sinews of the soul.

Anger is one of the sinews of the soul.

Anger is one of the sinews of the soul.

Anger is one of the sinews of the soul.

Anger is one of the sinews of the soul.

Anger is one of the sinews of the soul.

To persons standing alone on a hill during a clear midnight such as this, the roll of the world is a...

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Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.

Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul.

... ongoing care for the soul rather than seek for a cure appreciates the mystery of human suffering...

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Technologies of the soul tend to be simple, bodily, slow and related to the heart as much as the min...

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A man or a woman can inspire such deep fantasy and emotion that through the lovemaking embrace of a ...

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It may help us, in those times of trouble, to remember that love is not only about relationship, it ...

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Thomas MooreCare of the Soul: Guide for Cultivating Depth and Sacredness in Everyday Life

Gnostic tales tell of the homesickness of the soul, its yearning for its own milieu…

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Thomas MooreOriginal Self: Living with Paradox and Originality

It is only through mystery and madness that the soul is revealed

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Thomas MooreCare of the Soul: A Guide for Cultivating Depth and Sacredness in Everyday Life

I’m interested in this humbler approach, one that is more accepting of human foibles, and indeed see...

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Thomas MooreCare of the Soul: A Guide for Cultivating Depth and Sacredness in Everyday Life

Renaissance philosophers often said that it is the soul that makes us human. We can turn that idea r...

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Thomas MooreCare of the Soul: A Guide for Cultivating Depth and Sacredness in Everyday Life

In the fifteenth century, Marsilio Ficino put it as simply as possible. The mind, he said, tends to ...

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Thomas MooreCare of the Soul: A Guide for Cultivating Depth and Sacredness in Everyday Life

Disappointments in love, even betrayals and losses, serve the soul at the very moment they seem in l...

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Thomas MooreCare of the Soul: A Guide for Cultivating Depth and Sacredness in Everyday Life

Something deep in human make up needs and longs for a taste of eternity--a momentary release from th...

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Thomas MooreThe Soul of Sex: Cultivating Life as an Act of Love

The many great gardens of the world, of literature and poetry, of painting and music, of religion an...

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The spirit of Christmas is the spirit of love and of generosity and of goodness. It illuminates the ...

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Learning how to operate a soul figures to take time.

Our greatest human adventure is the evolution of consciousness. We are in this life to enlarge the s...

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